Email Capture
NeuralRepo lets you capture ideas by sending a simple email. No app to open, no login required — just compose and send.
How It Works
Section titled “How It Works”Send an email to:
idea@neuralrepo.comNeuralRepo creates an idea from your message and replies to tell you what happened — every message gets an answer, whether it was captured or not.
| Email Field | Idea Field |
|---|---|
| Subject | Title — or the first line of the body if the subject is empty |
| Body | Body (plain text, signature stripped) |
| Sender | Used for account matching |
The idea is created with:
- Status:
captured - Source:
email - Tags: none at first — auto-tagging fills them in a few seconds later
What Comes Back
Section titled “What Comes Back”| You sent from | Reply |
|---|---|
| The address on your Pro account | Captured! — with the title, the idea’s #number, and a link to open it |
| A Pro account’s address, but the mail was empty | Still captured; the title falls back to the first line of the body, or Untitled idea (from email) |
| The address on a free account | A short note that email capture is a Pro feature, with an upgrade link |
| Any address with no NeuralRepo account | A note that no account matches, with a sign-up link |
Nothing is silently dropped, so “I emailed an idea and heard nothing” almost always means
the mail never reached idea@neuralrepo.com — check your sent folder and any typo in the
address.
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Verify your account email
The sender address of your email must match the email associated with your NeuralRepo account. This is how NeuralRepo knows which account to save the idea to.
Check your account email in Settings > Account on the web dashboard.
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Send an email
Compose an email to
idea@neuralrepo.com:- To:
idea@neuralrepo.com - Subject: Your idea title (e.g., “Gamified onboarding flow for new users”)
- Body: Any additional details or context
- To:
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Check your ideas
The idea appears in your NeuralRepo dashboard within a few seconds, ready for triage.
Requirements
Section titled “Requirements”- A NeuralRepo Pro plan
- Your sender email address must match your NeuralRepo account email
How the Body Is Cleaned Up
Section titled “How the Body Is Cleaned Up”The handler keeps the readable text and throws away the mail plumbing:
- Multipart messages use the
text/plainpart 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 anOn … wrote:quote header.
Use Cases
Section titled “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
- 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
Section titled “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.