There are several ways to communicate live and asynchronously with your teammates within Notion. Our collaboration tools help you cut down on in-person meetings, equip remote teammates with info around the clock, and meet deadlines. Here's an overview.

Mention a person

When you want to get another person in your workspace to look at something, you can mention them anywhere inside a page, database, comment, or discussion.

Type @ followed by the person's name. A pop up menu will search for them in real-time. Press enter to choose the one you want.

To mention someone in a database, either @-mention them in the body of a page inside the database, or add them to a Person property field. They'll receive the same type of notification. This is handy for assigning people things in a tasks database.

Mention notifications

When someone mentions you in a workspace, you'll see a red badge appear next to All Updates in your sidebar with the number of notifications waiting for you.

Click All Updates and view Inbox to see all the times you've been mentioned organized chronologically.
You may also see mobile or desktop push notification depending on the apps you have installed and open.
Click on any of these mention updates to jump directly to the line, comment, discussion or database you've been mentioned in on the page.

<aside> 👉 Note: If you @-mention someone on a page that they don't have access to (like one of your private pages), they will not be notified.

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If you were mentioned in a comment, you can reply directly in the All Updates window by clicking Reply.