Forward or paste in your work

Not everything you make lives on a public feed. byline gives you two quiet ways to add a single piece of work: forward it to your private inbox, or paste a link or a note straight in.

Your private byline inbox

Every byline account comes with one forwarding address of its own. You'll find it on your Connect page, with a copy button right next to it, so it's never lost.

It looks like an ordinary email address with a unique tag on it:

ingest+yourcode@...

One address to remember, and it doesn't change. Forwarding to it works from any mail app you already use.

Forward, cc or bcc

There are three ways to send something to your inbox, and they all land in the same place:

Forward an email you received, a newsletter, a brief, a note from a collaborator.
Cc the address when you send a piece you want byline to keep a copy of.
Bcc it for the quiet version: add it to your sending list and the things you send copy themselves into byline as you go, with no one else on the thread seeing it.

What is kept

byline keeps the subject as the title, the full text of the message, and who it came from and when. The full body is preferred over a trimmed reply, so nothing of substance gets dropped.

Everything you forward is private to your account. It becomes part of your own brand memory that byline can draw on when you write, and it's never shown publicly or shared.

Attachments aren't read yet. byline notes that a file came along, but it works from the words in the message itself.

Add a single link or note

You don't have to use email. From your dashboard you can also:

Drop in a single link. byline fetches the page and pulls out the article text, the same way it reads your own site.
Paste a note directly. A stray idea, a rough passage, a draft you want it to remember, all kept alongside the rest of your work.

One-off adds vs connecting a source

Forwarding and pasting are one-offs: one piece, added once. They're perfect for the things that don't sit on a feed you can connect.

Connecting a source is different. When you connect Instagram, your website or YouTube, byline keeps watching it and pulls in new work on its own as you publish, so you never have to send those by hand.

A simple rule: connect a source for the channels that have a feed, and forward or paste for everything else.

Good uses

A newsletter you sent that doesn't live on a public page.
A draft you haven't published yet, but want byline to learn from.
A guest post or interview that lives on someone else's site, dropped in as a link.
A talk, essay or thread worth remembering.
A rough note or idea you want kept with the rest of your work.