Forget Dashboards—A pocket full of ideas from Two Flowers 🌱
Sometimes the deepest insights don’t come from apps, but from slowing down long enough to notice what’s right in front of you.
Hey Idea Shepherd,
The other day I was out walking and two little purple flowers stopped me in my tracks.
They weren’t rare or flashy—just ordinary. But when I slowed down long enough to notice the gradients of color and the way they faded from deep violet to almost white, something clicked.
I thought: God is intentional—even in this tiny detail.
And if He’s that intentional with flowers… how much more is He with us?
That simple observation turned into a whole trail of thought.
With the help of Sublime’s crazy related ideas, Canvas features and a few well-placed ChatGPT questions, I mapped it out:
Flowers → God’s intentionality in design
Clock hands + compass → how the most boring things are often the most useful
Gears → the staying power of faithfulness
Relationships → inconvenient but life-giving
And finally… why consistency isn’t boring but the very soil where creativity flourishes
In the end, it became a living example of what I want PKM to be—not dashboards and graph views, but a way of capturing sparks and shepherding them into meaningful insights.
I recorded the whole process in a new video:
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by tools like Obsidian or Notion, this video might give you a fresh lens. Sometimes the most ordinary things (two flowers in a field) can lead to the most extraordinary insights—if we know how to catch them.
P.S. If you’ve been curious about Sublime, I think this video will help you see why it’s become one of my favorite thinking companions.