6 months of OpenClaw

OpenClaw went viral earlier this year on tech internet, but the hype has died down quite a bit, especially if Google Trends is anything to go by.

But I'm still using it daily, and have been ever since I set it up in January, when it was called Clawdbot.

I use it as an entry point to my Markdown-based life admin and note-taking system. The combination of LLM agents, cron, and chat app connectors has proven very convenient.

I feel like it's the final piece to the promise of having a "second brain". I also love that I'm building an LLM Memory system that's vendor-agnostic; I can just switch to a different LLM (ideally, one day, a locally running one) and all my memories switch with me.

I wrote an article about my setup a few weeks into my OpenClaw journey, and my setup hasn't changed mea…