How we made Notion available offline
Notion has introduced an Offline Mode, allowing users to create, edit, and view pages without an internet connection. This feature was developed to address the challenges posed by Notion's unique block architecture and required significant changes to their data model. The implementation includes a persistent storage layer that tracks which pages are available offline and ensures a seamless user experience.
- ▪Offline Mode was the most requested feature by users for many years.
- ▪Notion evolved its SQLite cache into a persistent storage layer to support Offline Mode.
- ▪The new data model tracks multiple reasons for a page's offline availability, ensuring consistent access.
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| Original publisher | Notion |
| Canonical URL | https://www.notion.com/blog/how-we-made-notion-available-offline |
| Publication time | Sun, 17 May 2026 05:29:26 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-17T06:03:59.095Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-17T06:03:59.095Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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All posts←←All postsPublished December 11, 2025 in TechHow we made Notion available offlineBy Raymond XuSoftware Engineer, NotionShare this postLast August, we announced that users could create, edit, and view Notion pages without an internet connection. "Offline Mode" was our #1 requested feature for many years, but Notion's unique block architecture meant we had to solve several challenging problems around reference tracking, background syncing, and rich-text conflict resolution. This post explores the architecture and data model that took Offline Mode from just an idea to a production-ready feature.Storage LayerFor years, Notion has used SQLite to cache records locally and speed up page loads.
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