Email Capture

NeuralRepo lets you capture ideas by sending a simple email. No app to open, no login required — just compose and send.

Where do I send ideas?

Send them to your personal capture address, which looks like this:

idea+<24 hex characters>@neuralrepo.com

Find it in the web app under Settings ▸ Integrations ▸ Email capture. The address is created the first time you open that card, and it stays the same until you replace it.

The address itself is the credential. Any mail that reaches it becomes an idea in your repository, whoever sent it and from whatever mailbox. So you can send from a work alias or a second address, or forward mail through a service that rewrites the sender, and it still lands. It also means you should keep the address private, as the Settings card says: anyone who has it can add ideas to your repo.

Email Field	Idea Field
Subject	Title — or the first line of the body if the subject is empty
Body	Body (plain text, signature stripped)
To address	Picks the account — the token after idea+

The idea is created with:

• Status: captured
• Source: email
• Tags: none at first — auto-tagging fills them in a few seconds later

Tip

Email capture is designed for quick, low-friction idea saving. Write a clear subject line — it becomes your idea title. Put details, context, or notes in the body.

What happens to the mail I send?

A message is either captured or rejected while it is being delivered. NeuralRepo does not send a reply explaining a refusal. The rejection is an SMTP-time reject, so your own mail provider sends you a bounce (a non-delivery notice), which usually quotes NeuralRepo’s reason.

You sent to	Result
Your personal address, on a Pro account	Captured. A confirmation is sent back to the sender, with the title, the idea’s #number, and a link to open it
Your personal address, but the mail was empty	Still captured; the title falls back to the first line of the body, or Untitled idea (from email)
Your personal address, on a Free account	Rejected: Email capture is a NeuralRepo Pro feature
An idea+… address that has been replaced, or never existed	Rejected: Unknown NeuralRepo capture address
The shared idea@neuralrepo.com	Rejected, unless you opted in during the transition (see below): Send ideas to your personal capture address, shown in NeuralRepo Settings (idea+...@neuralrepo.com)

Note

The confirmation is best-effort. Cloudflare refuses to send a reply to a message that has no valid DMARC result, so some senders get the idea but no confirmation. Check the web app or nrepo log if a confirmation doesn’t arrive.

If you heard nothing at all, neither a confirmation nor a bounce, the mail most likely never reached NeuralRepo. Check your sent folder, and check the address against the one in Settings. If you get the confirmation and see the idea but can’t find its tags yet, give it a few seconds: tagging runs in the background.

How do I set it up?

1. Open the Email capture card

   In the web app, go to Settings ▸ Integrations and find the Email capture card. On a Free plan the card is titled Email capture — Pro and shows an upgrade link instead of an address.

2. Copy your address

   Click Copy next to your idea+…@neuralrepo.com address, and save it as a contact in your mail app so you don’t have to type it.

3. Send an email

   • To: your personal capture address
   • Subject: Your idea title (e.g., “Gamified onboarding flow for new users”)
   • Body: Any additional details or context

4. Check your ideas

   The idea appears in your NeuralRepo dashboard within a few seconds, ready for triage.

How do I get a new address?

Click New address on the Email capture card and confirm. The old address stops working immediately: mail sent to it afterwards is rejected with Unknown NeuralRepo capture address. Update the saved contact in your mail app. Replace the address whenever you think someone else has it.

Deleting your account clears the address as well.

What about the old idea@neuralrepo.com address?

Until October 24, 2026 (00:00 UTC), you can opt in to keep using the shared address during the move to personal addresses. After that date the shared address rejects everything.

• The opt-in is a checkbox on the Email capture card: Also accept mail from my account email to the shared idea@neuralrepo.com until…. It is shown only until the cut-off, and it is off unless you tick it.
• It works only from your account email. The shared address can’t tell who a message is for, so it matches the From address, lowercased, against your account email. Mail from any other address is rejected.
• It needs a Pro plan at the moment the mail arrives.
• It sends no confirmation. The shared address can’t verify who sent a message, so it never replies. The idea simply appears.

Caution

If you opt in, don’t send the same message to both addresses. Mail addressed to your personal address and idea@neuralrepo.com is delivered twice, and each copy creates an idea.

Requirements

• A NeuralRepo Pro plan, checked when each message arrives
• Mail sent to your personal capture address from Settings ▸ Integrations ▸ Email capture

How the Body Is Cleaned Up

The handler keeps the readable text and throws away the mail plumbing:

• Multipart messages use the text/plain part when there is one, and convert the HTML part when there isn’t — paragraphs, line breaks, and list items become newlines, and HTML entities are decoded.
• Signatures and quoted replies are cut, along with everything after them. The cut triggers on a -- delimiter line, Sent from my …, Get Outlook for …, a long line of underscores, or an On … wrote: quote header.

Caution

That last rule is the one that surprises people: forwarding an email keeps only the text above the quoted original. If you forward an article or a colleague’s mail, write what you want to keep at the top — everything from the On … wrote: line down is discarded.

Use Cases

• Capture ideas from your phone without installing anything — use your default email app
• Capture from any device — any device that can send email can capture ideas
• Comment on something you were sent — forward it and put your thinking at the top, above the quoted text

Tips

• Write descriptive subjects — the subject line is your idea title, so make it clear and specific
• Lead with your own words — anything below a quoted reply or signature is stripped
• One idea per email — each email creates one idea. For multiple ideas, send multiple emails
• Add context later — email capture is intentionally minimal. Add tags, relations, and detail from the web or CLI

Limitations

• Only text is kept. Images and file attachments are not processed.
• There is no way to set tags or status via email — every email-captured idea starts as captured, and is auto-tagged afterwards like any other capture.
• Non-ASCII subjects are decoded from RFC 2047 encoded words; anything the decoder cannot read arrives verbatim in the title.

Next Steps

Tags What auto-classification does with an email that arrives with no tags.

Review Queue Triage what you emailed in — quiet ideas, new connections, possible duplicates.

Weekly Digest The other side of email: what NeuralRepo sends you, and when.

Plans & Pricing Email capture is Pro — what else the plan includes.