A folder is a land
Each top-level folder gets its own land with a square in the middle.
See your notes as a place you can walk through.
Aloha opens your Obsidian vault or Notion pages and lays them out as a small town. Your notes stay where they are.
Free · In the browser · No account
How it reads your notes
A note is a house
Walk up to a door to open the note.
A link is a road
A link between two notes runs from one door to the other.
More links, a better road
A path for one link, a road for two, paving with lamps for three or more.
Bigger folders become bigger towns
A folder with four notes is a village, with eleven a small town, with twenty-six a town. Notes you haven’t opened for a month fade until you open them again.
Town sizes
Hamlet
up to 3 notes
Village
4 notes
Small town
11 notes
Town
26 notes
Each step dresses the square a little more: lanterns, benches, flags on the gate.
Works with what you already use
Nothing to move or import. Aloha reads your notes where they are and writes changes back to them.
Obsidian
Open your vault folder. Aloha reads and writes the same Markdown files Obsidian uses.
Read and write in Chrome, Edge and Arc
Notion
Sign in with Notion and choose pages. They open as a town, and simple pages can be edited from Aloha.
Through Notion’s own sign-in
Or start in Aloha
Walk round a sample town, or write notes in Aloha itself. They’re kept in your browser.
No account needed
The 23-second film
One note, then a folder, then a whole vault.
What the film shows
- A note drops onto the ground and a house goes up where it fell.
- The note is written further, and a garden grows round the house.
- A link to another note lays a road from door to door.
- More notes, more houses: a hamlet becomes a village, then a small town round its square.
- The camera pulls back: every folder is an island of its own, joined by bridges, as evening comes and the windows light up.
More about Aloha
Questions
Is Aloha free?
Yes. Aloha runs in your browser and costs nothing. There is nothing to install and no account to make.
Do I need an account?
No. Open app.aloha.place and choose where your notes are. Notes you write in Aloha itself are kept in that browser.
Does it work with Obsidian?
Yes. Open your vault folder and Aloha shows it as a town. It reads and writes the same Markdown files, in Chrome, Edge and Arc; other browsers open the vault read-only. More about Obsidian.
Does it work with Notion?
Yes. Sign in with Notion and choose the pages Aloha may see. They open as a town, database rows show their fields as a small table, and simple pages can be edited from Aloha. More about Notion.
Where are my notes kept?
Where they already are. An Obsidian vault stays in its folder on your device, Notion pages stay in Notion, and notes written in Aloha are kept in your browser. Our server keeps no copy of your notes. Privacy.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Tap the ground to walk there, or slide a finger to steer. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app.
Aloha Plus · under wraps
Something is being built past the edge of the map.
We won’t say what yet. Leave your email and you’ll be among the first to know — one letter, the day it opens. Aloha itself stays free.
A few hints
- Your town will follow you .
- Some pages will on their own.
- You’ll see it than ever before.
- And one more we won’t even hint at.
See your own notes this way
Open your vault or connect Notion. It takes a minute and needs no account.
Free · In the browser · No account