Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead
Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead
Notion 关停受 Skiff 影响的邮件应用，称多数用户已转向 AI 智能体
In February 2024, Notion bought Skiff, an encrypted email and productivity software startup. Within a year, Notion shut down Skiff’s email service (taking @skiff.com email addresses with it). And in April 2025, the San Francisco-based company released Notion Mail, a Gmail client primarily built by people who joined Notion through the Skiff acquisition.
2024 年 2 月，Notion 收购了加密电子邮件和生产力软件初创公司 Skiff。不到一年，Notion 就关闭了 Skiff 的电子邮件服务（并随之停用了 @skiff.com 邮箱地址）。2025 年 4 月，这家总部位于旧金山的公司发布了 Notion Mail，这是一款主要由通过收购 Skiff 加入 Notion 的员工所开发的 Gmail 客户端。
Today, Notion announced that it’s shutting down Notion Mail, effectively killing what little remained of Skiff email. In an X post (first spotted by 9to5Mac) today, Notion said that it will shutter the Notion Mail “inbox across web, desktop, and iOS on September 22.” The post claimed that most Notion users don’t use email clients anyway and instead rely on AI agents to handle their electronic correspondence.
今天，Notion 宣布将关闭 Notion Mail，这实际上终结了 Skiff 电子邮件仅存的痕迹。Notion 在今天发布的一条 X 帖子（最早由 9to5Mac 发现）中表示，将于 9 月 22 日关闭 Notion Mail 的“网页版、桌面版和 iOS 版收件箱”。该帖子声称，大多数 Notion 用户本来就不使用邮件客户端，而是依赖 AI 智能体来处理电子信件。
It reads: We launched Notion Mail with a belief that your inbox should think like you—more personal to how you work and over time, more capable with AI. As Notion agents have gotten more capable, we’ve seen more users hand off email workflows to them. Today, more than half of Notion Mail users manage emails without ever opening their inbox. So, we’re going all in on using agents to run your inbox.
文中写道：“我们推出 Notion Mail 的初衷是相信收件箱应该像你一样思考——更贴合你的工作方式，并随着时间的推移，在 AI 的加持下变得更强大。随着 Notion 智能体能力的提升，我们看到越来越多的用户将邮件工作流交由它们处理。如今，超过一半的 Notion Mail 用户无需打开收件箱即可管理邮件。因此，我们将全力投入到利用智能体来管理收件箱的工作中。”
Notion noted that most user data will stay in Gmail. A support page reads: “When the Notion Mail inbox shuts down, your email history will stay exactly where it is in Gmail.” However, Notion urged users to export drafts and scheduled emails by September 21, since those won’t automatically carry over to an alternative app.
Notion 指出，大多数用户数据将保留在 Gmail 中。一个支持页面写道：“当 Notion Mail 收件箱关闭时，您的邮件历史记录将原封不动地保留在 Gmail 中。”不过，Notion 敦促用户在 9 月 21 日之前导出草稿和定时邮件，因为这些内容不会自动迁移到其他应用程序。
Notion noted that users can also save their Notion Mail setups and “export your snippets and auto label instructions to use elsewhere.” “If you have auto label set up in Notion Mail, you won’t have to rebuild it. Create a Custom Agent in a few clicks, and we’ll bring your existing rules over for you,” the X post explained. “And if you’re already running Notion agents to manage email, they’ll continue running. Your email connection in Notion stays in place.”
Notion 表示，用户还可以保存他们的 Notion Mail 设置，并“导出代码片段和自动标签指令以便在其他地方使用”。X 帖子解释道：“如果您在 Notion Mail 中设置了自动标签，则无需重新构建。只需点击几下创建自定义智能体，我们就会为您迁移现有的规则。如果您已经在运行 Notion 智能体来管理邮件，它们将继续运行。您在 Notion 中的邮件连接也将保持不变。”
Organizations that relied on Notion Mail in a regulated environment might have to transition from Notion Mail earlier. “If you rely on HIPAA coverage, you should plan to transition off Notion Mail by June 30, 2026,” Notion’s support page reads.
在受监管环境下依赖 Notion Mail 的组织可能需要更早地从 Notion Mail 迁移出来。Notion 的支持页面写道：“如果您依赖 HIPAA 合规性，则应计划在 2026 年 6 月 30 日之前停止使用 Notion Mail。”
Skiff reportedly served 2 million users, giving rivals like Proton Mail a run for their money before the Notion acquisition. As a Gmail client that didn’t support end-to-end encryption, Notion’s AI-centric approach to email lacked the privacy focus that Skiff carried as an email provider. Still, Notion Mail was built with Skiff’s infrastructure and by former Skiff executives, making its impending demise feel like a sort of swan song for Skiff.
据报道，Skiff 曾拥有 200 万用户，在被 Notion 收购前，曾是 Proton Mail 等竞争对手的强劲对手。作为一款不支持端到端加密的 Gmail 客户端，Notion 以 AI 为中心的邮件方案缺乏 Skiff 作为邮件服务商所具备的隐私保护重点。尽管如此，Notion Mail 毕竟是基于 Skiff 的基础设施并由前 Skiff 高管构建的，这使得它的即将消亡感觉像是 Skiff 的某种“天鹅之歌”。
Although Notion is killing its Skiff-influenced email client, it may continue leveraging the human resources and other productivity ideas (around calendars and storage, for instance) gained through its Skiff acquisition as it tries to compete more strongly against rivals like Google Workspace. Notion, however, has strayed from releasing direct follow-up products to Skiff’s portfolio.
尽管 Notion 正在关停其受 Skiff 影响的邮件客户端，但它可能会继续利用通过收购 Skiff 获得的人力资源和其他生产力理念（例如围绕日历和存储），以试图在与 Google Workspace 等竞争对手的较量中占据更有利的地位。然而，Notion 目前尚未发布任何直接延续 Skiff 产品线的产品。