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Life Admin & HomeDone with OpenClaw Oct 22, 2026
Run a custom Telegram bot for to-dos, calendar and weather
After dropping OpenClaw over security and self-configuration crashes, the author wrote their own Telegram bot with a few manually enabled capabilities: TODO list, calendar and weather.
- What They Did
- After running OpenClaw in a dedicated VM with tightly limited file access, the author wrote their own bot that talks to them over Telegram. They manually enabled a few capabilities: adding to a TODO list, adding to a calendar, and fetching weather in their preferred format. The plan is to add features as needed.
- How It Went
- The author says they now know how the whole flow works, and found OpenClaw's soul.md, heartbeat and memory features never really worked. They are still looking for a way to let the LLM browse websites.
- Worth Knowing
- OpenClaw kept trying to configure itself and then crashing, so building only the capabilities you need gives a smaller, more predictable bot.
Try it yourself with OpenClaw
Write me a small Telegram bot I can run myself that does only three things: manage a to-do list, show my calendar events from [Google Calendar or other calendar], and give the weather for [city]. Keep each capability in its own file and make it so nothing else is enabled unless I turn it on. Walk me through setup and token storage, test each command, and stop when all three work. Ask me before you install anything or connect to my accounts.