Ways to bring your work in

byline builds its memory of your voice from the work you have already made. Here is every way to feed it, and a simple order to start in.

The ways in

There are three:

• Connect a channel. Point byline at your Instagram, your website or blog, or your YouTube channel. It reads what is there and keeps watching, so new posts land on their own without you lifting a finger.
• Forward your email. byline gives your account one private address. Forward, cc, or bcc anything you want it to remember: newsletters you have sent, drafts, half-formed notes. It files each one quietly.
• Paste or drop something in. Got a single piece that does not live anywhere connectable? Paste the text or a link straight into byline from your dashboard.

Your forwarding address looks like this and lives on your Connect page:

[email protected]

Start with one dense channel, the place you publish most. That alone is usually enough for your first voice card, and it sharpens as more of your work arrives.

Published work and private notes

byline keeps two kinds of material, and it knows the difference:

• Published work (your posts, articles, videos) comes in as public. This is the body of work your voice is drawn from.
• Private notes (forwarded email, drafts) come in private. They inform what byline knows about you, but they stay yours and are never treated as published voice.

You do not set this by hand. Each way in carries the right default.

Which channels bring in your audience

Two of your channels bring more than posts. When you connect Instagram or YouTube, byline also gathers the comments under your work and tracks how each piece performs over time. That is the raw material for your insights: what your audience keeps asking, which posts are taking off, what to make next.

A website or forwarded email brings the content itself. There is no comment thread or view count to read there, so byline does not invent one. Honest in, honest out.

Comments stay separate from your voice

This part matters. The comments byline reads are kept in their own place, never folded into your voice. When a tool writes as you, it draws on what you wrote, never the comment section. Your audience's words shape the ideas byline surfaces, but they are never mistaken for your own.

Connect more than one

You are not limited to one source per platform. Run three Instagram accounts, two blogs, a YouTube channel, and your newsletter all at once, up to your plan's limit. Email is the one exception: one forwarding address per account, so you have only one to remember. Everything pools into a single picture of your voice.

More sources coming soon

The list is growing. On the way: Threads, plain RSS blogs, Substack and podcasts, Notion and Obsidian for your notes, and TikTok, X, and LinkedIn as their doors open. You will see each one appear in your dashboard as it lands.