Iterate is the standing loop of the methodology, and it is the part most people overthink. The brain is markdown in a folder. Editing it is the same act as editing any document. There is no schema to migrate, no admin UI to navigate, no deploy step to remember. You play, you investigate, you fix, you integrate the new insight back into the brain. Repeat at your own pace. The most common reason people stall at this stage is fear of breaking the brain. They treat it like a fragile system that needs to be preserved exactly as the AI created it. That is the wrong mental model. The brain is a draft you are co-writing with the AI. Drafts get edited. Wrong notes get rewritten. Notes that no longer reflect what you think get archived. The brain only stays useful if you keep its content honest, and the only way to keep it honest is to edit. The good news is that every page keeps its own version history in the dashboard, so every state is recoverable. If you edit a page and decide you preferred the previous version, open its history in the dashboard and restore the earlier one. You can also download your whole brain as a zip any time, so you always have a full copy to fall back on. That safety net means you can experiment freely. Try a new structure for a week. If you hate it, restore the previous version. If you love it, keep it. When you do get stuck (a tool not behaving, a skill not firing, a graph view that looks wrong), there is a community. Other people are running brains. There are YouTube tutorials walking through the same questions you have. And if you are still stuck, write to info@lanbrain.ai and we will help. You do not have to figure things out alone.
Steps
Play with the brain at least once a week
Open your AI chat with the brain connected and ask it something you genuinely want to know. Not a test question. A real one. The brain only gets useful through use. The act of asking exposes which parts of the brain are thin and which parts are deep, and that tells you what to feed it next.
Investigate when something feels off
If the chat hallucinates, if a skill misfires, if a graph view looks wrong, do not shrug it off. Open Obsidian, find the relevant pages, read them with fresh eyes. Usually the brain is responding to something that is actually in the source material, just stated unclearly. Add a sentence to about-me clarifying the point and re-run.
Fix small things in place
When you spot a wrong fact, a stale entry, a broken link, just fix it. Open the file in Obsidian. Edit. Save. The fix lands immediately. You do not need to migrate anything or rerun the pipeline. The brain treats markdown edits as a first-class input.
Integrate new sources as they arrive
Real life produces material constantly. A new contract, a meeting transcript, a screenshot of something useful. Drop it into raw/ as it comes in. Once a month, ask your chat to ingest the new material into the wiki. The brain grows in small increments, not in big quarterly overhauls.
Watch a tutorial when you are stuck
YouTube has walkthroughs for almost every part of the brain. If a video does not cover your case, write to info@lanbrain.ai and we will point you in the right direction. If you spend more than fifteen minutes stuck on a step, stop, search, watch a five-minute video, then come back. Self-reliance is a virtue but so is using the resources that exist.
Do not be afraid to break things
Every page keeps its own version history in the dashboard, and you can download your whole brain as a zip any time. Every state is recoverable. Try a new folder structure. Rename a category. Merge two pages. If you hate the result, restore the earlier version from the page history. The fear of breaking the brain is the biggest blocker to making it yours.
Resources
Troubleshooting
- I edited a file and now the brain answers wrong.
- Open the file in Obsidian and read what you wrote. Edits sometimes drop context the AI relied on. Add the missing context back.
- The brain feels stale and I do not know what to do.
- Ask the chat to surface the pages it has not touched recently. The list tells you which corners of the brain need a refresh. Pick one and update it.
- I am scared I am going to lose work.
- Open your dashboard and download the brain as a zip. The dashboard also keeps a version history for every page, so you can restore an earlier version of any page yourself. And we keep daily snapshots of the whole brain as an extra safety net: if something bigger goes wrong, write to info@lanbrain.ai and we restore it for you.
- I disagree with how the brain categorised something.
- Move the file. Rename the folder. The brain follows your structure, not the other way around.