5 AI prompts to surface fresh insights from your databases

Your databases are packed with information, and you can quickly bring the most valuable insights to the surface using Notion’s AI autofill property.

Bringing the time-saving efficiency and creative enhancement of Notion AI into your databases makes it easier to parse large sets of data and get the key takeaways from every page at once.

This guide will show you:

• How to add an AI autofill property and customize it

• 5 custom prompts and how to use them in different situations

• More specific prompt ideas to spark your creativity

Databases allow you to aggregate pages and categorize them using properties. As you gather more and more information, it’s helpful to get a high-level summary of what pages contain, without having to open each item one by one.

By asking AI to generate a summary of the page content, you’ll get a quick a heads-up about what a page is about, the information it contains, and whether it’s complete or lacking information.

Selecting AI summary from the properties menu automatically summarizes all your database entries. However, if you want to be more specific about the style and length of your summary, add an AI custom autofill property.

Try the following custom prompt:

Adjust the prompt if you want AI to summarize the content in three words, in bullet points, or to summarize in simple terms.

• Get a simple summary of a technical document — Use the AI custom property to summarize a technical document like a product or feature spec in simpler language so non-technical team members and collaborators can understand it at a glance.

• Summarize drafts in your content calendar — Add a custom property to your content calendar to summarize blog articles, social media posts or ebooks.

• Generate a summary of resources you’ve saved — If you’re using Notion’s web clipper to save interesting articles or posts into your library, an AI summary property can produce a helpful summary.

You can use a custom autofill property to scan your pages for potential action items. This surfaces things you or your team may need to do, prevents tasks from getting missed or forgotten, and saves you from trawling through lengthy documents to search for tasks manually.

Use the following prompt:

Use this to:

• Break out tasks to do from a project brief — If you’ve created a scope doc or brief for a project, the autofill property will be able to scan the page for potential tasks using the above prompt. You can easily view them along with