Estate planning as a Notion account holder

Notion is an all-in-one workspace platform used for wikis, project management, databases, documents, and published websites. A Notion account can hold workspaces containing pages, databases with relations and rollups, embedded files, Notion Sites (published pages), API integrations, and AI-generated content. Notion uses a proprietary block-based data model where every piece of content is a block with parent-child relationships; exports to Markdown, HTML, CSV, or PDF are lossy and cannot fully reproduce database relations, rollups, or views.

Notion Labs, Inc. reviews transfer requests for Notion accounts on a case-by-case basis after the account holder's death. Approval is at the company's sole discretion, and documentation requirements must be met before any transfer is considered.

During the account holder's lifetime, Notion allows accounts to be transferred to another individual.

What happens at death

Notion has no publicly documented bereavement, estate, or deceased account process. There is no dedicated form, support path, or help center article addressing this scenario. Families must contact Notion support directly (the help center publishes support@notion.so as the data-recovery contact and offers a chat widget at notion.com/help). Dormancy risk: Notion defines a dormant account as a free user account inactive for five (5) years (no logins and no content edits). Once identified as dormant, Notion sends an email notification stating that the account and any dormant workspace will be terminated and deleted in 30 days unless activity occurs in that window. If the 30-day grace period lapses without activity, the account and all associated workspaces are permanently deleted. A workspace is deemed dormant if all of the owners of the workspace have dormant user accounts. The dormancy policy does not apply to accounts managed by an organization, accounts associated with a paid workspace (Enterprise, Business, Student, or Plus), or owners of a multi-user workspace. For Enterprise plans only, workspace owners can transfer a recently deprovisioned user's private content to another current member using the Content Transfer feature (or the Content Transfer API) - but only within 30 days of the user leaving the workspace, and only on Enterprise.