I kept losing tasks in Telegram chats. So I built a bot.

TL;DR: All my work-related communication happens on Telegram, but traditional task planners require manual data transfer and a separate routine. I spent a long time looking for a way to organize the chaos right within the messenger, couldn’t find anything suitable—so I ended up building my own bot. Here’s how I went from problem to solution. Context: Why Telegram Is Both My Office and My Notebook I spend almost the entire day on Telegram. It’s where client requests pour in, team updates come through, sudden ideas strike at 3 a.m., and I jot down quick “don’t forget” notes. The messenger has long been the main hub for all my work. But there’s a problem: information in chats is a stream, not a system. In the evening, I open a chat—hundreds of messages—and frantically search for that one single phrase about a deadline. Once, I missed a meeting because I missed a forwarded message—the client called, furious, and I blushed and made excuses. That’s when I first started wondering: how do peop