[amitav1]

Personally, I use it to manage all of the stuff I don't want to. I give it my course content and it makes flashcards for me to review. I give it my tasks and it schedules them throughout the day. All of the menial stuff that is necessary but not productive. It also has a much better memory than I do on account of it's constant access to a filesystem and grep. It's like my personal assistant and tutor and guidance counsellor and sysadmin, all in one. I do think that a) you need to stick with it for a few days and b) use a good model. When I first started using it, it was just a worse version of ChatGPT, but after bringing in all of my data from ChatGPT it's a lot easier for it to search for stuff when it's confused. Now it can also do stuff like manage nginx or my sync serviceand whatnot, ~autonomously. Originally I was using locally running qwen models, but they were so timid as to be useless. Right now I'm using Kimi 2.5 as my model.

[yencabulator]

> It also has a much better memory than I do on account of it's constant access to a filesystem and grep.

But that's just any current-day agentic thing, you don't need the insanity of Clawbot for that.

[amitav1]

I prefer OpenClaw because it's more persistent. I know, I know, theoretically you could do the same thing with Claude Code and markdown files (which, to be fair, is pretty much how OpenClaw works), I guess it's mostly the telegram interface I like. Most of the time I don't have my laptop with me, and ssh using Termux, and opening a remote claude code is a much greater hassle than sending a telegram message, and with telegram (or whatsapp or discord or whatever) you get the benefit of being able to send voice messages, which I find very useful. In what way is Clawdbot "insane"? Obviously if you give it write access to your email and twitter and whatnot, that's not great, but for me I really just give it access to that probably wouldn't ruin my life / career if they got out (e.g. my class notes and Anki decks).

[kilroy123]

Oh wow, I never even thought about importing all my ChatGPT data.

I guess for me a lot of tasks on a daily to-do list aren't things that can be done on the computer... So no virtual thing will be much help.

[amitav1]

By schedule my tasks throughout the day, I mean that it will figure out when I should do each thing, not that it does all of the things for me.

[gigatexal]

Could it be an office manager? I’ve a friend whose trying to start a business and while he’s technically very capable at long complex networking build outs and things he’s drowning in the paperwork of the office and revenues aren’t there yet enough to fund staff.

[amitav1]

I don't see why not, but I also have no experience in that sort of stuff, so take my endorsement with a grain of salt