Manage your sources

Open Sources in your dashboard to see Your sources, their status, and their controls. Connecting a source queues its first read; work does not appear in memory the instant you add it.

Email inbox and allowed senders

If you have not created an email source, open Email → Create inbox. There is one inbox per workspace, not one per person. Once created, Your sources shows its copyable address in the form ingest+yourcode@inbound.byline.fyi. Copy your actual address; the example code will not work.

Only email sent from the inbox owner's own email address or an address explicitly added under Your sources → the email inbox → Allowed senders is accepted. Add a collaborator's sending address there before they forward, Cc, or Bcc the inbox. Sharing the destination address alone does not authorize that sender. Accepted messages enter the workspace's processing queue; attachments are not read.

Your own work

Connect work you made. It can inform your voice, profile, Ideas, and performance where the source provides evidence. Instagram, YouTube, a website, the email inbox, and a one-off public URL are all read as that workspace's own material.

Resync a connected channel

Website, YouTube, and Instagram sources are checked in the background. If you have published something new, choose Resync on that source in Your sources. This queues a read; it does not import, analyze, or embed the item immediately. Check the source's updated status and library later. Pollable sources have a production cooldown of about 30 minutes per source, with additional shared limits. Email has no Resync button: sending an accepted message queues its processing instead.

Disconnect deliberately

Disconnect stops reading that source and permanently removes the material it brought into this workspace. The confirmation shows how many pieces it will remove; other sources are unaffected. If you only want to remove one item, use Library → Remove from memory instead. A public item cached for another workspace does not grant this workspace access after disconnect.

You can ask a connected AI tool to list sources, add an eligible source, or queue a sync. Instagram must be connected through the dashboard's authorization flow, not by pasting a token into a chat. Check the selected workspace first; a saved MCP connection is not a guarantee that your host will choose the right workspace or invoke byline automatically.