Notion

Tired of making notes on paper or any device manually? Making notes and paying attention to details at the same time could be a challenging task for many. However, collecting notes is also crucial for understanding what was discussed so you can carry out your work accordingly. To make note-taking easy, we have found an intuitive tool called AudioNotes which collects voice-based notes. The AudioNotes app is also powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to add swiftness to the note-making process. Know more about the…

Catering to millions of users worldwide, Slack is one of the world's most popular tools for communication used by professionals and businesses. The platform has a vast number of features that give it an advantage over other forms of communication. And now, Slack has taken a big stride forward into the new tech that is on everyone's tongues - artificial intelligence. To provide a more efficient yet broader user experience, Slack has introduced a new suite of AI features under Slack AI, and not just that, but importantly,…

Slack announced in September 2023 its intent to add generative AI features, and today the messaging application company rolled out its AI assistance. Slack’s new generative AI features are designed to increase workers’ productivity by consolidating messages and smart searches. For IT and cybersecurity professionals, Slack summaries can offer quick looks at incident reports or tickets before workers dive into individual incidents. Plus, Slack announced personalized channel summarization across multiple channels…

Notion launched its new calendar based on Cron last month, but its productivity suit can soon have more privacy-focused offerings. The company announced today that it has acquired Skiff, a platform that offers end-to-end encrypted file storage, docs, calendar events, and email. Skiff was started in 2020 by Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg. The company had raised $14.2 million in funding over two rounds from investors such as Sequoia Capital along with Alphabet chairman John Hennessy, former…

Felicis, the 16-year-old Bay Area-based early-stage venture firm, has a reputation for investing globally. Indeed, firm founder Aydin Senkut — who spent a handful of years at Google as a product manager in its earlier days — was born in Turkey and talks often of the hustle he sees in founders around the world. Felicis is also known for the very strong track record it has established over time, with early bets on some breakout companies as Notion, Canva, Adyen, Cruise, Flexport, and Shopify, to name just a handful.…

Welcome, folks, to TechCrunch Week in Review (WiR), a digest of the past few days in tech happenings. As I write this, snow’s gracing New York City — an increasingly rare treat thanks to our changing climate. And that feels fitting in light of the Apple Vision Pro’s imminent launch. After all, one of the promises of headsets like the Vision Pro is that they transport the wearer away from the stresses of everyday life to more optimistic realities — at least for a spell. Brian went hands on with…

Productivity tools have been on the rise over the last few years, especially after the COVID-19 lockdowns forced everyone to work from home. In today's hustle culture, these tools can help you organize, not only your work but your life too, allowing you to stay ahead of all commitments. And to succeed, staying organized and collaborating with your team is essential to ensure high productivity and output. If you want your team to be productive and perform well, it is very important that everyone is well aware of the…

Notion, the popular productivity platform, is adding a calendar app the company says will eliminate much of the tedious clicking users of competing software are accustomed to. “Even though digital calendars are kind of the main way we end up running our days, if we’re honest, there hasn’t really been a lot of innovation in it,” says Raphael Schaad, head of product for Notion Calendar. “Nothing really has happened there in the last decade or so.”And while Notion Calendar—available as of Wednesday for Windows, Mac, and iOS,…

Notion launched a calendar app Wednesday, built and reskinned from Cron, the calendar startup the company bought in 2022. Tight platform-wide integration will be the appeal for Notion’s “tens of millions” of users. Notion Calendar includes a built-in scheduler and makes it easy to merge content from the productivity ecosystem’s notes, docs and project dates.Notion Calendar lets you link Notion notes and other documents to meetings, transforming the calendar invite into an all-in-one hub for participants to add or view…

When looking for AI-powered solutions, we mostly look for tools that can efficiently manage our tasks, be it creating notes, writing content, creating workflows, editing images and more. However, finding such a multi-purpose tool is not easy even though there are numerous AI tools present in the market. To help you narrow down your search, we have just the right AI-powered productivity tool for you and it is called Taskade AI. It promises to raise the overall productivity of your workforce. Sounds promising right? Well,…