Manage your sources
Every channel you connect lives on your dashboard, where you can see what byline is reading, disconnect anything without losing your archive, and ask for a fresh read when you do not want to wait for the next scheduled one.
Your sources at a glance
Open the Connect page and you will find a Your sources card listing every channel byline is watching: your Instagram, your website, your YouTube, and your email inbox. Each row shows the platform, with the controls to manage it right there.
Your email source is a little different. Instead of a sign-in, it shows you the unique forwarding address byline gave you, with a copy button, so you can always grab it again. Forward, Cc, or Bcc anything to that address and it lands in your memory.
Disconnect keeps your content
Disconnecting a channel stops byline from reading it going forward. It does not delete anything you have already brought in.
Everything that was already imported stays put: your posts, transcripts, the audience comments, and the engagement byline tracked over time. Your brand memory survives untouched. All that goes away is the live connection itself, which frees up a slot so you can connect something else in its place. If you reconnect the same channel later, it simply picks up reading again.
Refresh now
byline reads your channels on a schedule on its own, so most of the time there is nothing to do. But when you have just published something and you want it in your memory immediately, hit Refresh on that source.
A few things worth knowing:
- Refresh shows up only for channels byline polls: your website, YouTube, and Instagram.
- Email does not have a refresh button, because it is instant. The moment you forward a message, it is in.
- A refresh is rationed to once every 30 minutes per source. A real read costs real work, so byline keeps it sensible. If nothing new has been published, refreshing will not find anything anyway.
How slots work
Your plan decides how many channels you can connect at once. You can connect more than one of the same kind, say two websites or a couple of Instagram accounts, as long as you have the slots for it.
Disconnecting any channel hands its slot back immediately, so you are always free to swap one channel for another. If you reach your limit and want more room, you can move to a higher plan or disconnect something you no longer need.
Manage sources from a chat
You do not have to be on the dashboard to do any of this. The same controls are available from inside the AI tools you already write in.
Connect byline once by pasting your byline connection link into the tool's Connectors or integrations settings and signing in:
https://byline.fyi/api/mcp
From then on you can simply ask, in plain language, what is connected, to connect a new channel, to disconnect one, or to refresh a source now. The same rules apply, including the once-every-30-minutes refresh limit, so nothing you do from a chat can run up a surprise.
Always checked on a schedule
You rarely need to refresh by hand, because byline keeps reading on its own. Your channels are checked on a regular cadence, faster on higher plans, and new work flows in without you lifting a finger.
Email arrives the instant you forward it, and new Instagram comments are picked up almost as they are posted. Refreshing by hand is there for the moments you cannot wait, not a chore you have to remember.