How to Add Ambient Sound to Notion

An embedded interactive scene is an illustrated room — a rainy café, a snowed-in cabin, a night train — where each object is a sound. Tap the window for rain or the fireplace for a crackling fire, and the page keeps playing while you work in the rest of your Notion workspace.

Nothing needs installing and there is no account. The embed loads its sounds only after you press play, so it stays light on the page until you want it.

Open any scene, for example the Rainy City Apartment or the Midnight Library, and switch on the sounds you like. The embed remembers exactly which layers are on and how loud each one is.

Want a timer on screen as well? Turn on Focus mode for a clock and a 25/5 Pomodoro that rings a soft bell between sessions.

Press Embed under the scene. That copies a small iframe snippet with your mix built in. In Notion you only need the link inside it: the part that starts with https://www.ambientnoise.io/embed/scene/.

Blogs, portfolio sites, and study-stream overlays can use the full iframe snippet as-is. It is responsive and sized for a 16:9 frame.

In your Notion page, type /embed, press Enter, and paste the link. Drag the corner of the block to resize it — a wide, short block works well at the top of a study dashboard.

Press play inside the block to start the scene. Browsers only allow sound after a tap, so it never starts on its own when you open the page.

Keep the volume low enough that you forget it is on. If voices pull your attention, pick a scene without chatter, or use the No voices filter in the [full mixer](/) to find steady sounds instead.

For long sessions, add a steady layer such as brown noise under the scene. Our guide to layering ambient sounds explains why that helps.