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Life Admin & HomeDone with OpenClaw May 1, 2026
Run a 24/7 personal assistant and progress tracker
The poster is setting up OpenClaw as an always-on personal assistant and progress tracker, and also uses it for a self-hosted project, seeking advice on model routing costs. · May 1, 2026
- What They Did
- The post describes an OpenClaw setup meant to stay on all day in the background as a personal assistant and progress tracker. The agent was intended to watch the user’s schedule, track progress, update and format a database feeding a personal dashboard, listen for cron jobs, send SMS or chat pings, and do occasional light web search and scraping; the thread’s concrete follow-up came from a commenter using a second agent for a self-hosted project and Google Workspace access after API setup.
- How It Went
- The thread gives no measured results from the original poster. In comments, one user said a two-agent setup was going well: a $10 plan handled Gmail triage, calendar events, sync cron jobs, and weekly stock pulls, while a second $20 agent was used for a self-hosted project.
- Worth Knowing
- The clearest catch mentioned is setup overhead: Google Workspace automation required initial API configuration before the bot could work across Gmail and Calendar.
Try it yourself with OpenClaw
Set me up as a 24/7 personal assistant that tracks my progress on [goals or projects]. Each [day or week], ask me for updates, log them in [notes or file], and send me a short summary of progress and what's next. Suggest a model routing setup that uses cheaper models for routine tasks and stronger ones for hard ones, with estimated monthly cost. Ask before sending messages to anyone but me.
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