Notion Acquires Skiff: Big News for Multi-Product Future

Notion have acquired a smaller productivity company called Skiff in an attempt to build on their multi-product world. Here's the latest and what to expect from the acquisition and line-up.

In the early hours of UK time, Notion have announced the acquisition of Skiff.

Skiff has been growing in popularity as a multi-product line-up for several years now, with a huge focus on their web3 and secure nature applications - with a low price and brilliant design build. Notion have announced on their blog that they have acquired the company behind the mail, calendar, docs & drive experience as of February 10th 2024.

Yes, Cron Calendar was acquired in 2022 and is now Notion Calendar.

Skiff becomes the next major acquisition from Notion and allows them to continue development internally but sadly see them shutdown the service.

What to Expect from Skiff Acquisition

There's a few elements on the cards that could come from this deal:

• An upgraded focus on security and protection of data - this could be a unique offering that makes Notion even more beneficial in the market as rising open-source options come into play like AFFiNE Pro.
• Notion Mail could be coming soon - like their Notion calendar experience the focus has been driving users from outside of the application. This could be a perfect opportunity to re-purpose the Skiff Mail and build a Hey Email type competitor app.
• Notion Team Chat could spin from this too - This is a personal prediction, but the value of the team chat experience combined with mail could come from this acquisition too.
• Skiff will be shutting down fully in 6 months - the migration of data will happen over the next 6 months window.

Who will be watching this closely, ClickUp, who acquired Hypercal in the reaction to the announcement of Notion Calendar in early 2024