The Fleece AI Brain Notion connector syncs the pages from your connected Notion workspace into a local-first knowledge base — plain Markdown and SQLite on your own machine. Each page becomes a note titled by its Notion title, with its text blocks preserved. From there, any MCP-compatible AI app such as Claude Desktop or Cursor can answer from your real Notion knowledge, with the source one click away.
What syncs from Notion
Everything comes in as knowledge nodes — ordinary files you can open, link and search, not rows trapped in someone else's cloud.
Workspace pages
Every page the connected Notion integration can see is pulled in through Notion's search API, one note per page.
Page titles
Each note is titled by the page's title property; a page with no title falls back to a stable placeholder.
Page text blocks
The body captures the first level of blocks — paragraphs, headings, bulleted and numbered lists, to-dos, quotes, callouts and code.
Edits refreshed in place
When a page's last-edited time changes upstream, its note is updated rather than duplicated.
Incremental updates
Sync resumes from the newest last-edited time it has processed and walks pages newest-first, so steady-state runs fetch only what changed.
Built-in deduplication
A seen-ledger keyed on each page id guarantees a re-sync never creates duplicate notes.
Connect Notion in four steps
No IT project, no webhook plumbing — one sign-in from the desktop app.
- 01
Install Fleece AI Brain
Download the desktop app for macOS, Windows or Linux and open your vault — a folder of plain Markdown files on your machine.
- 02
Open Connectors and pick Notion
In the app, open the connectors panel, choose Notion, and sign in. OAuth is brokered securely; your Notion content never passes through our servers.
- 03
Choose what it can read
Notion only exposes the pages and teamspaces you share with the integration. Grant the ones that matter; leave the rest out.
- 04
Let it sync — then ask
Sync runs in the background and stays up to date. Point Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP app at your Brain and ask about a spec, a decision or a doc from months ago.
Notion is where your team writes. Your AI can't read it.
Notion is the right place to draft specs, plan projects and keep the wiki — that is exactly where it should stay. The gap is downstream: the moment an AI assistant needs the deploy runbook, the pricing rationale or last quarter's retro, it has no way in, and someone ends up copy-pasting pages into a prompt.
The Notion connector closes that gap without moving your team off Notion. It mirrors each page into your local brain as an open note, linked to the people, projects and tools it mentions — the memory layer your AI reads, while Notion stays the place you write. And because the copy is plain Markdown, there is no new lock-in.
Your pages go from Notion to your disk. Nowhere else.
Authentication is a standard OAuth sign-in, but the actual sync calls the Notion API directly from the desktop app on your machine. Raw pages never transit Fleece's servers or any third party — they land straight in your vault as Markdown and SQLite.
That is the whole trust model: we can't read your Notion workspace, period. The files are yours, they open in Obsidian or any editor, and if you ever leave, you take everything with you.
- +Direct Notion-to-device sync — raw pages never touch our servers
- +Vault = plain .md files + SQLite, 100% Obsidian-compatible
- +Works offline once synced; cloud sync is optional and end-to-end encrypted
Give every AI app your Notion knowledge.
One copy-paste connects the Brain to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Zed or agents you build. From then on, "what did the RFC say about rate limits?" is answered from the actual page — with the source note one click away, found by meaning and exact words alike.
Because every agent and tool reads the same graph, you stop pasting Notion pages into prompts. On Teams, the organization map also shows which agents used that knowledge and what they cost.
Notion connector — FAQ
Does my Notion data pass through Fleece's servers?+
No. Sign-in uses a brokered OAuth flow, but the sync itself calls the Notion API directly from the desktop app on your machine. Raw pages land straight in your local vault; we never see or store your Notion content.
Which pages does the connector sync?+
Every page the connected Notion integration can see. Notion only exposes the pages and teamspaces you explicitly share with the integration, so you scope it by granting access to what should be remembered — nothing else is read.
Does it write anything back to Notion?+
No. The connector is read-only: it copies pages into your knowledge base and never creates, edits or deletes anything in your workspace.
How often does it sync, and does it catch edits?+
Sync runs in the background and resumes from the newest last-edited time it has processed, walking pages newest-first so only changed pages are fetched. When a page is edited upstream its note is refreshed in place, and re-syncs never create duplicates.
Which plan do I need to connect Notion?+
The local brain is free, and connectors are the paid lever: Solo (€12/month) includes up to 3 connected tools, Pro (€24/month) makes them unlimited with auto-sync and the Janitor AI that auto-merges and archives. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial, no card required.
How do I ask Claude or Cursor about my Notion pages?+
Connect the Brain to Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP-compatible app with a single copy-paste. Your AI then answers from the synced Notion knowledge — matching meaning and exact words locally — and cites the exact note it drew from.
Can I open the synced pages outside the app?+
Yes. Every page is an ordinary Markdown file in your vault, fully Obsidian-compatible — open, edit or grep them with any tool, and take them with you if you ever leave. No new lock-in.
What happens if I disconnect Notion?+
Sync stops, and everything already in your vault stays yours — the notes are local files, not a mirror that vanishes with the connection.
Keep writing in Notion. Let your AI read it.
Connect Notion in one sign-in and turn your workspace into a memory every AI app on your machine can answer from.