setup

Personalizing a blank second brain template involves an onboarding interview that collects your intent, identity, and tool preferences, then writes those answers directly into the repository's orientation and memory files.

Yes, the second brain setup supports a resumable flow with staged setup levels and safe defaults, allowing you to pause and later deepen personalization for voice, tools, and ingestion planning.

The best way to start ingesting information is through a first-loop activation cycle, which guides you through capturing, filing, and connecting one real data source before the onboarding setup ends.

Yes, the onboarding process includes privacy calibration to safely handle user-specific markers and credentials, ensuring your knowledge base environment is bootstrapped with your desired security depth.

A guided knowledge base interview works by batching questions about your purpose, communication style, and machine profile, then seeding the status docs and memory files with those specific inputs.

To set up a second brain with varying tooling preferences, you need a blank template ready in your repository; the interview captures your specific tool profile and writes the configuration into the base automatically.