Context Management
Understands how Notis cleans the context of previous messages and how it enriches it by gathering relevant context across your Notion workspace and the web.
Notis is designed to provide highly personalized assistance within your Notion workspace. To do this effectively, it needs to maintain an appropriate context window that balances comprehensive understanding with computational efficiency. This article explains how Notis manages its context—both cleaning outdated information and gathering relevant context when needed.
Conversation Context
Unlike chatGPT, you cannot open a new window in your favourite message app manage to clean the context Notis uses to answer your queries. To solve this, Notis employs several sophisticated techniques to ensure its context window remains relevant and efficient.
By default Notis will recall the previous messages you exchanged on the same channel.
There are a few exceptions to this rule:
- Replying or citing a message on all channels will bring back the conversation history used by this particular message.
- Automations will create a new conversation thread.
To force Notis to clear his conversation history, simply ask something along the line of “Hey, let’s start a new conversation”.
We enforce a hard limit of 60’000 tokens cap per request.
Enriching the Context
Notis works as part of a team, with a helper that gathers relevant information from your Notion workspace. This helper uses is called the context manager and use different strategies to gather that relevant context:
1. Notion documents and databases
When specific information is needed, Notis can query your Notion databases or search your workspace:
- Find information stored in your databases using filters to answer specific questions (like "What tasks are due this week?")
- Find relevant content anywhere in your Notion workspace, including inside the documents saved inside Notion pages.
- Get the content from Notion documents found or that you shared.
2. Shared documents
Notis can search any documents you share in the chat to gather relevant context and answer your questions.
3. Web Information
To add outside knowledge, Notis can:
- Read Websites: Look at external web content you mention
- Search the Web: Use Open AI deep research or web search to find current information or verify facts
4. Long Term Memory
Notis maintain important piece of information it learns about you in it’s long term memory and update it based on your conversation.
Main Benefits
This smart approach to managing information provides several advantages:
- Personal Touch: Notis writes like you do by studying your content
- Speed: By removing unneeded information, Notis stays fast and mimize how much usage is billed to your plan.
- Complete Understanding: By gathering information in multiple ways, Notis gets a full picture of your life.