Concept

What you started with

Your account did not begin empty. What is in it is a copy, made for you, and every part of it is yours to rewrite or throw away.

What arrived

Four things at the top level, each holding lenses of its own:

Science          Chemistry · Physics
Media            Game of Thrones · Dungeons & Dragons
Investigation    Watergate
Personal         Daily Diary · My Health · Personal

Around seven hundred nodes in total, unevenly spread on purpose. Chemistry and Game of Thrones are substantial — a few hundred nodes each, properly grouped and linked, which is what a lens looks like once it has been worked on. Watergate is smaller and denser, and is the one to open if you want to see typed relations doing real work.

The empty ones are not missing content

Physics has no nodes in it. Daily Diary and My Health have one each. That is deliberate, and it is the more useful half of the starter: a finished example shows you what the app can do, and an empty lens shows you where your own work goes. A palace made only of other people's finished lenses would be a demo you visit rather than a place you write in.

It is a copy, not a shared view

These are your rows. Not a template you are looking at through a window, not a read-only sample, not something linked back to an original. When you signed in for the first time, the whole thing was duplicated into your account in a single transaction.

So:

Edit any node. Rename any lens. Recolour any group. Nobody else is affected, and nothing warns you, because there is nothing to warn about.
Delete all of it if you want the empty room. It costs you nothing that anyone else can lose, and no other account changes.
Refract a starter node into a lens of your own, or build on top of Watergate rather than beside it. It is ordinary content from the moment it lands.

The copy happens once, on first sign-in. There is no second one to receive and no way to ask for a fresh set — so if you delete Chemistry, Chemistry is gone from your palace. That is the intended behaviour rather than an oversight, and it is the price of the lenses being genuinely yours.

Changes we make later do not reach you

If the starter content is improved next month — new nodes in Chemistry, a better taxonomy in Watergate — your copy does not change. Accounts created after the improvement receive it; yours keeps what it was given.

This is a decision rather than a limitation, and the reasoning is worth having, because the alternative sounds obviously better until you look at it:

Your copy has been edited.By the time an update exists you may have rewritten two of those nodes, deleted five, and regrouped a dozen. “Take the latest” then needs an answer for every collision — overwrite your edit, merge it, skip it — and every answer is wrong for somebody.
It would mean we write into your account. Today, once you have forked, nothing we do can alter what is in your palace. That is a property worth more than fresher example content.
A graph that changed overnight is indistinguishable from your own forgotten edit.This app's whole posture on generated content is that nothing you did not write should act on you before you have seen it. A silent update on login is that failure wearing a helpful face.

The shape that would be good — a notice saying “Chemistry has twelve new nodes since you forked”, additions only, landing as drafts you can read and reject — is designed and not built. If it arrives, it will arrive as something you accept, never as something that happens to you.

Where to start reading

Watergate — small enough to take in, and the best example of typed relations. Open a node and look at what its links assert, not just that they exist.
Chemistry — what a few hundred nodes looks like when the groups are doing the work. Good for seeing why colour matters at scale.
Personal— one node, “Your First Node”, which is a tour of what a body can contain: markdown, wikilinks, maths.

And then delete something. It is the fastest way to believe the first half of this page.