Using Sonar with Notion.

Notion is where a lot of founders think in writing: the strategy doc, the post-mortem, the plan for next quarter. When you connect it, Notion's consent screen asks which pages to share, and Sonar can see those and nothing else. Each week it looks for pages edited in the last seven days among them, takes up to six, and reads what is new: a page created this week in full, an older page only in the blocks edited this week, so a page you shared long ago never arrives as months of old content dressed as news.

The text is mined in one pass for moments and discarded. Each page is clipped at about five thousand characters and read two block levels deep.

A page you created yourself and last edited yourself is your own writing, and can also teach Sonar your voice. That is a separate opt-in in Settings, Voice. A page someone else started or last touched is material only, because a shared page carries no line-by-line author and Sonar never guesses attribution.

• A Sonar account.
• A Notion account and the pages you want Sonar to read. You choose them on Notion's consent screen when you connect.
• Nothing to install in Notion.

1. 01

   Open Connected sources

   Sign in at app.meetsonar.co and open Settings, Connected sources. On your first day the Connect your week row on Home opens the same list.

2. 02

   Flip the Notion switch

   Notion's consent screen opens. It names Sonar and asks you to select the pages to share.

3. 03

   Pick the pages

   Choose the pages Sonar may read and allow access. Sonar sees what you shared and nothing else in your workspace.

4. 04

   Let the first read run

   You land back in Sonar and the first read starts on its own. The row names the Notion workspace it is connected to and shows the receipt: how many pages were read, their titles, and how many moments were kept.

There is nothing to operate. Sonar reads about once a week and after you connect; the Sync all button at the top of Connected sources runs every source now. Each read covers what changed in the last seven days, up to six pages; the row shows the receipt with the page titles.

Moments land on Home and in the chat as material for drafts in your voice, with Notion as provenance, and the freshest are dealt into your weekly deck. In a draft, a person named in a page becomes a role.

To change which pages Sonar may see, flip the switch off and on again and choose pages afresh on Notion's screen.

Settings, Connected sources, flip the Notion switch off. Sonar revokes the grant at Notion first and then deletes the token and the receipt, so the connection disappears from Notion's side too. Nothing from Notion can be read from then on.

Moments already mined stay in your workspace because they are yours: delete any one, everything from Notion, or all of them in Settings, Intelligence, Moments, or set a retention rule of 30 days, 90 days or a year.

Page text is processed in memory and discarded after the extraction pass; it is never stored. What stays is the moments (a title, an angle, one line of detail, the page's title as provenance) and the row's receipt. The token is server side only and encrypted at rest.

Your pages are sent transiently to the AI provider that mines them and not retained for training under its API terms; they are never shared with other users.

The full account is the privacy policy; the terms of service cover the account itself.

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