David Bourne Coach & Instructor

Snowball

Boyd Varty IsBoyd Varty is a...

South African

Wildlife Tracker

Wayfinder Coach

Instructor, Author, Speaker

Campfire Storyteller

Encourager tell "Your Story" so you can connect more deeply and live more authentically within the world.

One of my inspirations for the GoMicro publishing project.

Boyd Varty Is Boyd Varty is a... South African Wildlife Tracker Wayfinder Coach Instructor, Author, Speaker Campfire Storyteller Encourager tell "Your Story" so you can connect more deeply and live more authentically within the world.

Digital GardenMy real garden where I get inspired daily.

In early Spring, 2025, while researching how to publish Obsidian notes to the web, I came across a video about Digital Gardens, a metaphor for sharing your creations early in the creation process .

My Digital Garden is a core part of my GoMicro publishing project.

This Practice In Public concept made a ton of sense to me. I have thousands of notes because I write every day and collect lots of ideas. But I share very little of that.

The "roots" of this garden is my Obsidian based PKM , a knowledge base for ideas to connect and grow.

With a Digital Garden You Plant...

fragments or "seeds " of your notes

that might grow into "sprouts " and

one day may become ""evergreen ", meaning they are long lasting, and somewhat "finished".

I love metaphors, especially ones using the natural world, so the Digital Garden was perfect.

Does a Digital Garden "Work"?

Yes! I'm amazed at how well it's working.

My intention was to start sharing in ways I had not done before: more loosely, freely, quickly, with less listening to my inner critic .

By day 2 of the project, I posted 15 notes, which is more than I usually post to my website in a year! By day 4, I'm up to 23!

Updates To This Site

Here's a list of the latest updates, made possible by the Dataview plugin , an easy to use database tool for Obsidian .

Note Name

Last Updated

Links

Obsidian Is

10:10 PM - April 21, 2025

0

Digital Garden

5:55 PM - April 21, 2025

26

write every day

5:48 PM - April 21, 2025

2

Asheville

5:27 PM - April 21, 2025

4

GoMicro

5:16 PM - April 21, 2025

8

Zapier

5:13 PM - April 21, 2025

4

A Coach Is

5:05 PM - April 21, 2025

1

Writing Is

5:02 PM - April 21, 2025

1

Worldview

7:25 PM - April 19, 2025

5

Wayfinder Coach

7:25 PM - April 19, 2025

9

Updates to This Site

7:22 PM - April 19, 2025

2

Ram Dass

7:21 PM - April 19, 2025

5

PKM

7:17 PM - April 19, 2025

13

Obsidian

7:16 PM - April 19, 2025

26

markdown

7:16 PM - April 19, 2025

8

Also see this on the Updates to This Site page.

Digital Garden In early Spring, 2025, while researching how to publish Obsidian notes to the web, I came across a video about Digital Gardens, a metaphor for sharing your creations early in the creation process.

A Coach IsA Coach Is...

Your co-creator of a safe space for Personal Growth.

And Guide though your most challenging assumptions,

To get you on the path to where you want to go.

So you learn to choose to embrace your limiting beliefs,

Instead of wanting to move and standing still.

GoMicro

A Coach Is A Coach Is... Your co-creator of a safe space for Personal Growth. And Guide though your most challenging assumptions, To get you on the path to where you want to go. So you learn to choose to embrace your limiting beliefs, Instead of wanting to move and standing still. GoMicro

write every dayWriting every day for just 10 mins will transform your life.

Your writing never has to be "good". It just needs to be an act of putting ANY words down.

This is one of the Core Practices and "Practical Ways to Live More Inspired Lives" that I advocate as a coach.

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write every day

Updates to This SiteHere's what I'm up to on this Digital Garden site:

Note Name

Last Updated

Links

Obsidian Is

10:10 PM - April 21, 2025

0

Digital Garden

5:55 PM - April 21, 2025

26

write every day

5:48 PM - April 21, 2025

2

Asheville

5:27 PM - April 21, 2025

4

GoMicro

5:16 PM - April 21, 2025

8

Zapier

5:13 PM - April 21, 2025

4

A Coach Is

5:05 PM - April 21, 2025

1

Writing Is

5:02 PM - April 21, 2025

1

Worldview

7:25 PM - April 19, 2025

5

Wayfinder Coach

7:25 PM - April 19, 2025

9

Updates to This Site

7:22 PM - April 19, 2025

2

Ram Dass

7:21 PM - April 19, 2025

5

PKM

7:17 PM - April 19, 2025

13

Obsidian

7:16 PM - April 19, 2025

26

markdown

7:16 PM - April 19, 2025

8

Limiting Belief

7:15 PM - April 19, 2025

12

Keyword shortcuts + text replacements are da-bomb.

7:15 PM - April 19, 2025

0

inner critic

7:12 PM - April 19, 2025

3

Evernote

7:12 PM - April 19, 2025

1

Digital Sharecropper

7:12 PM - April 19, 2025

5

David Bourne

7:11 PM - April 19, 2025

3

David and the Shark Essay

7:11 PM - April 19, 2025

4

creation process

7:11 PM - April 19, 2025

1

Ensh*tification

7:11 PM - April 19, 2025

2

Cory Doctorow

7:10 PM - April 19, 2025

2

Digital Garden - RSS Problem

7:06 PM - April 19, 2025

2

Microblogging From Obsidian

7:02 PM - April 19, 2025

5

PhotosTest

6:18 PM - April 19, 2025

0

Microblogging

4:33 PM - April 19, 2025

0

Practice In Public

4:18 PM - April 19, 2025

13

Core Practices

2:33 PM - April 19, 2025

2

Camino de Santiago

2:33 PM - April 19, 2025

1

Bear.app

2:22 PM - April 19, 2025

8

30 Days of Substack

2:21 PM - April 19, 2025

3

photos

9:21 AM - March 30, 2025

1

The Re-Create Space

5:29 PM - March 29, 2025

0

Zettelkasten

8:39 PM - March 28, 2025

7

DavidBourne.net Digital Garden Home

8:20 PM - March 28, 2025

2

Who Are You?

3:22 PM - March 28, 2025

5

Updates to This Site

ZapierZapier is an automation tool that connects software together.

For example, I "zap" my Digital Garden posts to my Social Media feeds as part of my Microblogging From Obsidian Project.

Zapier's "if this then that" model gives you tons of control.

GoMicro

Zapier

GoMicroGo Micro to get moving.

In the spring of '25 I started posting “Micro Posts” to my socials as a way to share more ideas.

Tiny changes are the foundation for everything.

How it works: The existence of the GoMicro Obsidian link tells Zapier to push that post out. Not there? No Share.

BTW, the social posts sometimes show two brackets like this...[[word]] which means there is a link on my site from that term. At the moment, I can't fix it. I can only explain it!

GoMicro BTW, the social posts sometimes show two brackets like this...[[word]] which means there is a link on my site from that term. At the moment, I can't fix it. I can only explain it!

Obsidian IsObsidian Is...

My digital hive mind.

Where I spend most of my time.

Creating, not just consuming.

Reviewing, not just viewing.

Connecting, injecting, retrospecting.

Obsidian is my rock.

For inspection and now projection.

GoMicro

Obsidian Is Obsidian Is... My digital hive mind. Where I spend most of my time. Creating, not just consuming. Reviewing, not just viewing. Connecting, injecting, retrospecting. Obsidian is my rock. For inspection and now projection.

AshevilleI live in Asheville, NC, USA.

I wasn't born here, but my kids were, so that makes me a local. Right?

I've been here full-time since 1999, but also came as a kid to WNC every summer in the Flat Rock, NC area.

Asheville's awesome.

GoMicro

Asheville