> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.notis.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Customize

> Teach Notis your taste — your writing voice, your preferences, your workspace context. Memories, memory sources, skills, and the custom prompt all shape how Notis works for you.

The *how*. Where automations decide *when* Notis runs, customization decides *how* it executes once it does. The goal is to teach Notis your taste so it acts like a teammate who already knows you, not a generic assistant.

There are four layers, from quick to deep:

1. **Tell Notis what to remember** — preferences saved on the fly.
2. **Connect a memory source** — passive context from Notion, Drive, Gmail, or websites.
3. **Install or write a skill** — repeatable workflows and formats.
4. **Set a custom prompt** — global behaviour across every task.

## Ask Notis to remember

The fastest customization is just telling Notis. As you chat across channels, Notis automatically saves what matters — preferences, projects, decisions, and context — and recalls it next time.

> *"Remember that I prefer morning summaries as bullet points, not paragraphs."*

> *"My team uses the 'Backlog' status for new feature requests before prioritizing."*

These memories persist across every channel and every automation. See [Memories](/tools/long-term-memory) for how it works and how to manage what's saved.

## Connect a memory source

Memory sources let Notis continuously index external knowledge bases so they become passive context. Notis *knows* what's inside them even when you don't mention them.

Supported sources:

* **Notion** — pages and databases for background knowledge
* **Gmail** — historical email tone, decisions, and relationship history
* **Google Drive / OneDrive** — docs, PDFs, spreadsheets, shared folders
* **Websites** — public sites or docs to keep available as reference

Set one up from your [portal](https://app.notis.ai) under **Memories → Add memory source**. Memory sources are an Ultra feature.

## Install or create a skill

Skills are bundled instructions Notis loads when needed — your writing voice, your formatting rules, your repeated workflows. Think of them as the way custom GPTs shape ChatGPT, except composable across every channel and every automation.

**Install one in 30 seconds:**

1. Open your [Notis portal](https://app.notis.ai/skills)
2. Go to **Skills**
3. Pick from the catalog — popular starters: PDF generation, Word docs, Excel reports, social-post drafting
4. Click **Install**

**Or create your own from chat:**

> *"Create a skill that drafts my Twitter posts in my voice. Here are 5 posts I've written so I can show you what I mean: \[paste 5 posts]"*

> *"Create a skill that turns voice notes into structured product requirements. The format should always be: Problem, User, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions."*

<Tip>
  The best skill descriptions include examples of the output you want. Five samples of your writing voice, three example bug reports in your team's format, the layout of your favorite slide deck — examples beat instructions.
</Tip>

See the [Skills reference](/tools/skills) for installing, editing, pausing, and sharing skills.

## Set a custom prompt

For behaviours that should apply across *everything* Notis does — tone, default formatting, hard rules — you can set a custom prompt under **Account Settings → Custom Prompt** in the portal.

Use it sparingly: custom-prompt instructions run on every single task, so most preferences are better encoded in a skill or in a [database description](/notion/database-instructions). See [User Settings](/account-and-settings/user-settings) for details.

## Customization compounds with automations

A skill plus an automation, with the right memories in the background, is where it clicks:

> *"Every Monday at 9 AM, run my weekly digest skill on last week's tasks and email me the result."*

The automation triggers on Monday. The skill formats the digest. Memories give Notis the context to know what's worth highlighting.

## What's next

* [Skills reference](/tools/skills) — installing, editing, pausing, sharing
* [Memories](/tools/long-term-memory) — passive context across conversations
* [Automate](/get-started/create-an-automation) — pair customization with a trigger