My name is Timur Davletshin. I’m a software engineer with a long-standing passion for personal productivity.
I’ve been practicing Getting Things Done for the last 10 years. The methodology itself has never been the problem — the problem has always been the tooling. GTD asks you to maintain an inbox, a task tracker, a calendar, reference files, and a regular review habit. In practice that means juggling three or four apps, copying things between them, and spending real effort just keeping the system running. Every few years I’d burn out on the maintenance overhead and start over with a new stack.
Recently I came across OpenClaw (originally called ClawdBot) — an open-source AI agent that runs 24/7 on your own server and connects to Telegram, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Tasks, Drive, and more. For the first time, I have a realistic shot at a personal assistant that can tie all these services together and handle the grunt work of GTD on my behalf: capturing items into the inbox, sorting tasks, nudging me about deadlines, and running daily and weekly reviews.
This blog is where I’ll document the experiment. The goal is straightforward: build a GTD system around OpenClaw and see whether an always-on AI assistant can finally solve the maintenance problem that has plagued my productivity practice for a decade.
First up: ClawdBot Setup — Day 1, covering the initial server setup and service integrations.