The Notion Mail inbox is going away. Your team still needs one.
Notion is retiring its standalone Mail inbox on September 22, 2026, and folding email back into the suite through Gmail. If you ran your team from that inbox, this is the moment to decide where it should live next. We built this+that as a neutral, cross-channel inbox that turns every message into tracked work, across every channel your team uses.
Notion is not leaving email. It is leaving the standalone inbox
On September 22, 2026, Notion retires the standalone Notion Mail inbox and folds email into the Notion suite through Gmail (Notion's notice, Engadget). What continues is agent email tools that connect through Gmail, plus a Gmail AI Connector for searching and drafting email inside Notion AI. So Notion is not exiting email. It is retiring the inbox client and keeping email as a capability inside the workspace.
Notion's stated reason is striking: "more than half of Notion Mail users manage emails without ever opening their inbox," so the company is, in its words, "going all in on using agents to run your inbox." We think that read is correct. The inbox as a place you sit and live in is fading, and agents doing the work is where this is heading. That is the bet we have been making from the start.
Where we differ is scope. Notion's version is Gmail-only and Notion-centric, with email folded into one suite for one provider. We built this+that the other way around. The inbox is neutral and cross-channel, a place your team coordinates from across every channel it works in, not single-channel email triage tucked inside a workspace. If you are losing the surface your team ran on, a neutral one that spans all your channels is the answer that holds up.
Your email history is safe
Notion Mail two-way synced with Gmail, so the messages you received and sent already live in your Gmail account. Migrating does not mean losing your archive. What is Notion Mail-only is a short list: drafts, scheduled emails, snippets, and your auto-label instructions. Export those before September 21, then move the inbox itself somewhere built for a team.
A clean migration, before September 21
Export what is Notion Mail-only
Before September 21, pull your drafts, scheduled emails, snippets, and auto-label instructions out of Notion Mail. Everything else, the mail you sent and received, is already sitting in Gmail, so this is a short list.
Connect your channels to this+that
Start with Gmail or Outlook, then bring in Slack, Google Chat, and Telegram. Now the whole team reads, triages, and replies from one place rather than one inbox per provider.
Let the work surface itself
From here it runs without much prompting. Incoming messages become tracked, assignable tasks in DoBox, each linked back to its source, and the workflows you set up take care of the follow-through.
Why a neutral, cross-channel inbox is the durable choice
- Every channel, not one provider. Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Google Chat, and Telegram are all live in a single inbox today, where you read and reply. Microsoft Teams messages are ingested, so the work buried in them surfaces too. WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger are in progress and not live yet.
- There is no workspace to adopt alongside it. The inbox is the whole product, so leaving Notion Mail does not mean signing up for the next lock-in.
- Coordination stops living in people's heads. DoBox turns each message into an assignable task, with priorities, due dates, comments, and recurrence, all linked back to where the request came from.
- Automation is there when you want it. Describe what should happen in plain language and you get conditional logic, loops, sub-agents, and connections to your other tools, run by an incoming message or on a schedule.
- The AI is grounded in what your team knows. A shared brain, with version history, sits behind every draft and answer, so replies are not a generic guess.
Honest about the fit
this+that is built for teams: founders, operations leaders, and engineering leaders at startups and forward-looking agencies who coordinate real work across messages. If you ran a team from the Notion Mail inbox, that is exactly who we built this for.
If you are a single person on a personal Gmail account who just wants a one-to-one swap for a solo mail client, we are probably not the closest fit, and we would rather tell you that than sell you the wrong tool. We are also candid about scope: Notion's docs and databases are best-in-class, and if your day is run from a workspace rather than from your messages, staying close to Notion may suit you better. Plenty of teams run both.
On trust: this+that connects through OAuth, inference runs inside AWS with no training on your content, and no this+that employee can read your message content.
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