Find, recall, and pin
Your brand memory is everything byline has read, plus the handful of facts you tell it to never get wrong. Here is how to search what you've published, recall your own notes, and pin the things byline must always know.
All of this happens inside the tools you already write in. If you haven't connected one yet, paste your byline connection link into its Connectors or integrations settings, sign in once, and you're done:
https://byline.fyi/api/mcp
Search everything you've published
Once byline is connected to a tool you write in, ask it to search your archive in plain language. "What have I already said about pricing?" "Pull my best lines on burnout." byline looks across everything it has read, your posts, transcripts, articles, and the notes you've sent it, and answers with the actual pieces it found, each one linked back to where you said it.
It searches two ways at once: by meaning, so a question about "rates" still finds the post where you wrote "what to charge," and by exact words, so a specific phrase or name lands cleanly. You get the closest matches first, with a short snippet, the title, and a link, and for video, the timestamp where you said it.
Narrow your search
When you want a tighter read, say so in the same breath:
- By channel: "only my YouTube videos," "just what's on my site."
- By kind: "only my written posts," "only video."
- By date: "anything since January," "from the last three months."
You can stack them. "What have I said about onboarding on YouTube since spring?" byline applies the filters and ranks what's left, so you're reading the right ten things, not the nearest thousand.
Recall your notes
Your brand memory isn't only what you've published. It also keeps the working notes and drafts you've sent byline's way: your half-formed ideas, the voice memo you emailed yourself, the angle you didn't run yet. Ask for them the same way. "Remind me of that idea about creator taxes." "What notes do I have on the rebrand?" Your private notes stay private to your account, and they surface alongside your published work when they're relevant.
Pin the facts byline should always know
byline learns your voice on its own. What it can't guess are the small, exact facts it must never get wrong: the spelling of your studio name, the link to your shop, your tagline, the words you refuse to use. Tell any connected tool to remember one, "remember that my newsletter is called The Long Way, lowercase," and byline pins it as a durable fact. From then on, every tool you've connected draws on it, so your shop link is right in Claude and right in ChatGPT without you repeating yourself.
Keep facts few and sharp
Pinned facts work best when there are few of them and each says one clear thing. They aren't a notebook, they're the short list byline checks every time. A good fact is one line and unambiguous: "Always write my name as d'Angelo, with the apostrophe." If you find yourself pinning a paragraph, it probably belongs in a note or a published post instead, where search can reach it.
Edit or retire a fact
Facts change. You rename the newsletter, you move the shop, you stop using a phrase. Just tell a connected tool: "update the fact about my shop link," or "retire the old tagline." byline rewrites it or sets it aside. A retired fact stops steering anything byline writes, but nothing in your archive is lost: your published work and notes stay exactly as they were.