# Aloha

> Aloha opens your Obsidian vault or Notion pages and shows them as a small town you can walk through. Your notes stay where they are. Free, in the browser.

- Site: https://www.aloha.place/
- App: https://app.aloha.place/
- Contact: hello@aloha.place
- Price: free. No account. Runs in the browser, installable, works offline. In English; more languages welcome.

## Pages

- [How it works](https://www.aloha.place/how-it-works): How Aloha shows your notes as a town: folders as lands, notes as houses, links as roads. How to walk, read and find things.
- [Aloha for Obsidian](https://www.aloha.place/obsidian): Open your Obsidian vault in Aloha and see it as a town: folders as lands, notes as houses, [[wikilinks]] as roads. Same Markdown files, read and write.
- [Aloha for Notion](https://www.aloha.place/notion): Sign in with Notion, choose pages, and see them as a town: pages as lands and houses, links as roads. Edit simple pages from Aloha. Free, in the browser.
- [FAQ](https://www.aloha.place/faq): Is Aloha free? Does it work with Obsidian and Notion, offline, on a phone? Where are notes kept? Short answers about Aloha.
- [Privacy](https://www.aloha.place/privacy): Where your notes live when you use Aloha: in your browser, in your Obsidian vault, or in Notion. No account, no analytics, no server copy of your notes.
- [Press kit](https://www.aloha.place/press): Aloha press kit: what it is in one line, facts, the logo and icons, product pictures and the 23-second film, free to use when writing about Aloha.
- [Roadmap](https://www.aloha.place/roadmap): What we’re making in Aloha now, next and later, what’s already done, and how to help: ideas, testing, translations. Volunteers welcome: https://www.aloha.place/roadmap#volunteer
- [Help it grow](https://www.aloha.place/support): Aloha is free. Ways to help: share it, tell a friend, make something with it, tell us what’s missing.

## Guides

- [Getting started](https://www.aloha.place/guides/getting-started): Open your Obsidian vault or Notion pages in Aloha, take a first walk and read a note at its door. About two minutes, no account.
- [Walking and reading](https://www.aloha.place/guides/walking-and-reading): How to move round Aloha on a computer and a phone, open a note at its door, turn from note to note, and find your way when the town gets big.
- [Writing and linking](https://www.aloha.place/guides/writing-and-linking): Write a thought and watch its house go up, add side thoughts, attach pictures, link notes into roads, carry notes elsewhere and let them go.
- [Places and portals](https://www.aloha.place/guides/places-and-portals): How Aloha groups your notes into places, each a land round a square with a portal in the middle, and how to get from one to another.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://www.aloha.place/guides/keyboard-shortcuts): Every key Aloha understands, in one table: walking, reading, writing, finding, maps, the walk timer and the postcard.
- [Privacy and your data](https://www.aloha.place/guides/privacy-and-data): Where Aloha keeps your notes, attachments and settings (in the browser, your Obsidian vault or Notion), and how to back them up or remove them.

## Articles

- [How to take notes you’ll actually come back to](https://www.aloha.place/blog/how-to-take-notes-you-will-come-back-to): Most notes are written once and never read again. A plain method — capture fast, title the first line, link on purpose, revisit on a rhythm — that makes notes worth returning to.
- [Obsidian graph view: what it’s good for, where it falls short, and alternatives](https://www.aloha.place/blog/obsidian-graph-view-and-alternatives): An honest look at Obsidian’s graph view — the settings that make it useful, why big graphs turn into hairballs, and other ways to see a vault, from Canvas and ExcaliBrain to walking it.
- [Why you never reread your notes — and how to fix it](https://www.aloha.place/blog/why-you-never-reread-your-notes): Notes pile up and never get read. Why that happens, what forgetting and spacing tell us, why place helps memory, and small review rituals that actually stick.

## Questions

- What is Aloha? A viewer for the notes you already have. It opens your Obsidian vault or Notion pages and shows them as a small town: folders as lands, notes as houses, links as roads. You can also write notes in Aloha itself.
- 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.
- What if I clear my browser data? Notes written in Aloha itself live in the browser’s storage, so clearing the site’s data clears them. Your Obsidian vault and Notion pages aren’t affected.
- Can I get my notes out? With an Obsidian vault or Notion there’s nothing to export: your notes never left. Notes written in Aloha can be shared, copied as Markdown or downloaded as .md files.
- What happens when I delete a note? In an Obsidian vault the file goes to the vault’s .trash folder; in Notion, the page goes to Notion’s trash. Either way you can undo it for a few seconds. You also get to pick how the house goes: burn, blow-up, tornado, sink or meteor.
- 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.
- Does it work offline? Yes, once it has loaded. Aloha installs as a web app and can open your map without a connection. Notion pages need a connection to update.
- Which browsers does it work in? Recent Chrome, Edge, Arc, Safari and Firefox, on a computer or a phone. The town is drawn in 3D, so the browser needs WebGL 2. Writing to an Obsidian vault needs Chrome, Edge or Arc on a computer.
- Which languages does it speak? English for now. If you’d like Aloha in your language, write to us; translations help a lot.
- Can I use it with the keyboard? Yes. WASD or the arrow keys walk, / finds, M shows the whole map, Space opens the house you’re standing at. All keyboard shortcuts.
- What are you working on? What we’re working on now and next is on the roadmap. Ideas welcome.
- How can I help? Share it, tell a friend, or tell us what’s missing. The ways are on Help Aloha grow.
- How do I get in touch? Write to hello@aloha.place.