Ark Digest 40: Back from a week of vacation, reigniting my inspiration, trying the new Eden App

Welcome to the 40th 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) I'm back from 1 week of vacation

You haven't seen any emails from these past 7 days, and this was for a good reason:
I've been in vacation with my childhood friends.
We booked a house in the middle of nowhere in France and spent 7 days enjoying the sun, the pool, talking, playing games and listening to music.
(We also drank quite a bit of alcohol I'm not gonna lie)

This week of vacation with my friends has been a ritual we've been doing each summer for the past 9 years...
And apart from enjoying time with friends, it has always been a good opportunity to reflect and think about the next steps for my business.
And this leads us to the next subject of this digest:

2) My future plans for Noah's Ark

Since I've launched the SCOS Pro, my complete 10-hour course on how to build the ultimate Operating System for Creators to manage their own life and business using Obsidian and Claude Code...
I've been kind of in a rut.
I spent 3 to 4 months building the course, which was exhausting, and although the launch went well and landed me quite a bit of money, it also burned me out on the Obsidian x Claude Code topic.

It doesn't mean I won't create content anymore about this subject:
Because I still believe that it's the most powerful system you can build as a creator and solopreneur to manage your life and business, and it's the foundation of my teachings with Noah's Ark:

• Build an AI Second Brain that supports your entire life and business

• Turn your knowledge into a profitable creator business

• Use that creator business as the vehicle to fulfil your potential in all of your life areas and enjoy life to its fullest

But by going all-in in creating content on Obsidian x Claude Code + building the course, I've exhausted myself talking about only one thing.
It has been an amazing growth opportunity, don't get me wrong:
I've more than doubled my email list, signed a few coaching clients, had a great launch, scaled my youtube views from 300/400 views to 3k-10k+ views and all that good stuff.

But as a Creator at heart, I can't only talk and write about the same thing again and again indefinitely.
I constantly need to immerse myself in new ideas, concepts, and philosophies that fuel my inspiration to be at my highest level when creating.
Only yapping on the same subject over and over bore me and gradually make me lose my inspiration and motivation to create.
That's why my mission as a creator atm is to build up that inspiration again to augment my frequency and create fulfilling content again.
That's why, if you have some good book/content creator recommandation that you feel would resonate with me, feel free to share them with me so I can check them out.

3) Taking time to write by hand again

The other thing I want to do to rebuild that creator inspiration is to write by hand again.
Now don't get me wrong:
I'm not gonna bash AI writing saying it's bs and all that stuff hardcore writer loves to push all day long.
I rather want to see a creator who used smart workflows with AI to create with less friction and be consistent than a creator who refuses AI but only post once in a blue moon and ends up being another starving artist.
(That's why I built system like Content OS to help you be consistent and grow even if you lack the time/energy to write everything by yourself)

But I personally feel the need to write by hand again in my quest to rebuild my inspiration from the ground up.
My philosophy always has been to use AI as an amplifier and use it to delegate the boring and maintenance task so you can focus your time on your craft and what you love doing by yourself.
But while building the course, I relied a lot on AI even to create content and send newsletters to Ark members, and I feel like this lead to a gradual disconnection with my audience.

Maybe it's just a personal feeling, and y'all don't felt it at all, but I want to get back on the practice of daily email writing with you to hone my craft again and find more fulfillment in my daily content creation.
As much as I love AI, sending voice notes transcript to a terminal isn't as fulfilling and personal than taking the time to write by hand and let the flow take over.
So yeah, expect more manually written email from my part from now on.

4) deep-diving into Eden again

For the OGs Ark members, y'all know that I started Noah's Ark by creating content on Kortex, Dan Koe's Second Brain app.
For a lot of various reasons, Kortex became Eden, and that new app wasn't up to my standard for a Second Brain, and with the rise of Obsidian x Claude Code system I decided to drop Eden to get back to Obsidian.

But on these past months, Eden has gone through a content revamp and became a totally new app:
Now it's a complete Content Creation app dedicated to researching viral angles and powerful ideas for creators.
And to be honest, it looks soooo much better than what it was before.
It's now a very good complementary app to my Obsidian x Claude Code system, and the best thing is that they even added a MCP so you can connect it to your AI Agents.

And as I said before, re-igniting my content creation inspiration by immersing myself in stimulating ideas is my actual mission, so Eden looks like the perfect app to do that.
I've been neglecting Substack & X a lot these past months to focus on YouTube, but now I want to get back to writing so trying Eden seems like the perfect for my actual situation.
I'll probably create new YouTube videos on the subject when I'll have mastered it.
So stay tuned for that.

Thanks for reading this 40th episode of the Ark Digest™️.

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