Notion supports Member accounts through its official hosted MCP service. An administrator enables Notion under Settings → Sources, then each teammate connects their own Notion account under Integrations and authorizes a workspace. Search uses the connected member's current permissions.
The ordinary Notion OAuth connection used by workflow blocks and knowledge-base ingestion is separate. Live Search uses personal MCP OAuth for content search; the REST API's title-only search is not used as a fallback.
Search effectively
Use short, distinctive keywords such as launch rollback or a concise question such as Why did we postpone the migration?. Prefer one focused concept per query; shorten or rephrase a query that returns weak results. Read important matches before drawing conclusions.
Sim checks the connection's current tool access before searching. When available, it uses Notion AI search; otherwise it uses the advertised keyword-search route. Workspace plans and enabled MCP tools determine availability. Notion can return results from connected applications, but Sim's Notion provider returns only Notion pages and databases. Search Slack, Gmail, or Drive through their own providers for those sources.
The assistant can scope a query to a Notion page URL or ID when the server advertises page-scoped search. A server without that option reports the limitation. When the connection’s plan and tool schema allow it, Sim sends modification-date filters and newest sorting to Notion. It then checks exact timestamps from up to 10 current page reads. Other connections use local date filtering for keyword searches; date-only searches report the missing plan capability. These bounded results do not establish exhaustive date coverage or the oldest page in the workspace. Sim never substitutes the search time for a missing page date.
Browse pages
Ask for your private, shared, favorite, or recently viewed pages to browse without inventing keywords. Private and shared lists reflect the corresponding sidebar sections; they do not enumerate the whole workspace. Recently viewed pages are ranked by visits and frequency, not modification time. Follow the returned continuation to see more entries in the same list, and read a page for its contents.
List availability is checked against the connected account’s current tools and access. Browsing keeps the same personal OAuth connection and requires no additional credentials.
Coverage and reads
Search returns a bounded, ranked selection. Pagination is used only when both the advertised tool and response support it. If results are capped, external results are dropped, or Notion reports plan restrictions, Sim marks the coverage as partial and suggests refining the query.
Reads fetch the exact page or database through the same member connection. Large pages can omit subtrees; Sim preserves that limitation in the returned content. Open the original page when the result says its content is incomplete.
Search is limited to a fixed read-only allowlist: tool-access inspection, search, AI search, sidebar lists, and fetch. It cannot create or edit Notion pages. The server URL is fixed to Notion's official endpoint, and every call is validated against the current advertised tool schema.
See Notion MCP setup and the supported tools and plan behavior.