The Ark Digest #37: Course Progress, Eden's Pivot & My Latest Obsidian Tutorial

Welcome to the 37th Episode of the Ark Digest™️.

Every week, I share the unfiltered reality of building Noah's Ark, the wins, the struggles, and the insights that emerge when building a profitable and purposeful creator business.

Inside each Digest, you'll see:

↱ Real progress updates on my current projects

↱ Raw thoughts and breakthrough moments

↱ Weekly inspiration fueling my journey

↱ Lessons you can steal for your own path

↱ Data from tracking my habits and productivity

Think of this as a direct line into my mind as I build my dream creator business, so you get inspired and motivated to progress on your own journey.

Let's begin :

1) Back to Creating

I'm really happy with last week.
I'm picking things back up slowly, and I'm glad to be getting my Ark Digest out and to have published a new YouTube video.
I'm gonna keep up that rhythm for now, as my focus is still finishing my next course as soon as possible, and when that is out there, I'll be back to creating more content here as well.

2) New YouTube Video: Mastering Obsidian in 2026

If you haven't seen it yet, my latest YouTube video on how to master Obsidian in 2026 just dropped.
It's a really in-depth tutorial on how to use Obsidian, and I also walk through my approach to managing files, which is a bit different from most people because I don't use any folders at all.
I use databases to manage all my files in Obsidian and create indexes, which is much more scalable long-term than building folders with subfolders and sub-subfolders.
If that kind of system interests you, I highly recommend going to watch it:

3) Course Progress: More Than Halfway

I've made a lot of progress on the course this week.
There are over 50 modules in total, so it's an extremely complete course, and of course, that means a lot of work.
I managed to record more than half of them last week, so my goal is to finish this week, which means I can plan the launch for early June, realistically.
I'm genuinely excited to launch this because it's really going to be the culmination of everything I've worked on these first six months of the year with Obsidian and Claude Code.
I can't wait to present this system, give access to it to as many people as possible, and truly transform the way you work, manage your knowledge, and run your business as a creator.

4) Coaching One-on-One

In the meantime, if you don't want to wait until June, I can always help you set up this system through one-on-one coaching.
If that interests you, just reply to this email with the word "coaching" and I'll send you all the details.
We can work on several angles:
Building your second brain, growing your creator business, learning Claude Code, and learning note-taking systems like the Zettelkasten method or other personal growth systems that might resonate with you.
For everyone who joins a coaching program before the launch, they'll also get access to the future second brain course for free when it's out, so it's a great deal.

5) Eden's Pivot

I don't know if you've seen it, but the Eden team recently sent an email, and I think it's worth talking about.
For those who don't know, Eden goes back to the very beginning of Noah's Ark.
When I started a year ago, I was making videos and content around building a second brain on a piece of software called Kortex, Dan Koe's second brain app.
Then, at the end of 2025, around October and November, Dan shut down Kortex to launch Eden, another second brain app that also served as a kind of cloud drive.
That's around when I started drifting away from Eden and going back to Obsidian.

The Eden team has been dealing with a lot of challenges.
From what I saw, they tried to integrate AI agents directly into the app, but their API costs were way too high compared to the price of the subscriptions they were selling, so it simply wasn't profitable.
They had to let go of a large part of their team, and I think they lost a lot of money in the process.
And that's genuinely sad, because even though I had stopped using Eden since Obsidian and Claude Code were so powerful and so well-suited to my needs as a creator, I still wished the team nothing but success.
I'm infinitely grateful to Dan and the whole team for the support they gave me when I launched Noah's Ark.
Without them, I wouldn't be where I am today.

But what I found really interesting is the pivot they've recently made.
Instead of being a second brain app, Eden has become something much more niche and specific for content creators in particular.
The new version of Eden is essentially a place where you can get content inspiration from other creators across all platforms.
If you're on LinkedIn, for example, you can connect your account and it will show you top-performing posts from other creators in your space, so you can get inspiration, note ideas, and write your own content based on that.

I think that's a genuinely solid direction for content creators...
And it's really useful for keeping a pulse on the market, seeing what's performing right now, and understanding which angles are working, so you can put your own twist on proven ideas and capitalize on what's already been validated.
I think I'm going to make a video to show how the app works because I think it could be really interesting, and honestly it's going to be nice to talk about something other than Obsidian and Claude Code for once.

For those of you who were still using Eden until now and haven't yet made the switch to Obsidian, this is probably the moment.
Eden is no longer a second brain app so you'll need a new app to handle your second brain.
(And if you follow me... I hope you won't go back to notion)
Watch my latest video to learn how to use Obsidian, and take it from there.

6) This Week's Focus

The plan for this week is the same as last week: publish a YouTube video and keep advancing on the course modules.
My real goal is to finish recording all of them.
I still have editing and marketing to handle after that, so the work is far from over, and honestly, making a big course like this is an enormous amount of work.

After this launch, I think I'm going to go back to the model I had last year, which worked well and gave me much more stable revenue.
My model was to release smaller, more specific courses every month and to combine this with one-on-one coaching.
Shorter courses, less expensive, faster to create.
Because spending six months on a single program while my only income was coaching has naturally brought my revenue down a bit these past six months, even though I doubled my audience.
I know the course I'm about to launch has a good chance of doing well, which is exciting, but I genuinely can't wait to get back to stability in my business.
But that's part of the process of being a creator, you gotta try new things to see how things go and understand how you want your business to look.

Thanks for reading this 37th episode of the Ark Digest™️.

If any part of this resonated with you, hit reply and let me know what you're building.
I respond to every email and I love chatting with you. Last time I got dozens of responses and it genuinely warms my heart.
It reminds me that we're really a community, together in this entrepreneurial adventure.

As always, I wish you the best on your own journey…
And welcome back to the Ark,
Noah.