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Track my reading goal and add books to my list

AI engineer Sajal Sharma built an AI on Telegram that tracks his tasks and notes and handles scheduled work. On camera he asked for a project overview, checked progress toward a reading goal, and had the assistant search the web for a book series and add the books it found to his reading list.

How it works

  1. Install the AI and connect Telegram
  2. Set up a workspace of tasks, notes and memory
  3. Ask for a project overview
  4. Check reading-goal progress
  5. Assistant searches the web for a book series
  6. Adds the found books to the reading list
  7. Scheduled reminders run from the same assistant

Why it’s worth knowing

A build-along demo that ends with the agent maintaining a real personal list on schedule.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on oreilly.com. See the original ↗

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