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Olwen, in your pocket.

Text Olwen from anywhere — and he does it.

Link Olwen to a Telegram bot and your assistant goes mobile. Add a task on the walk home, fire off a message, ask what's on tomorrow — or kick off a coding job and get a pull request while you're out. Olwen runs the work and replies right in the chat.

Set it up — about two minutes

  1. Create a bot. In Telegram, open @BotFather and send /newbot. Pick a name, and copy the token it gives you (looks like 123456:ABC-…).
  2. Connect it. In Olwen go to Settings → Connections → Telegram, paste the token, and press Connect. Olwen verifies it with Telegram.
  3. Link your chat. Open your new bot in Telegram and send /start. That tells Olwen which chat is yours — and only you can command him.

What you can say

you → add a task: call the bank tomorrow olwen → ✦ Added "call the bank tomorrow". you → message mom on whatsapp: running 10 minutes late olwen → Sent to mom on WhatsApp. you → what's on my plate today? olwen → 3 tasks open, a 7pm event, and 2 unread that matter. you → run a job in my-site: fix the failing tests olwen → Started a job — I'll open a PR and ping you.

It's the same Olwen as the app — same tasks, same connections — just reachable from your phone. And it doubles as the remote control for unattended coding: from a chat you can start a job, and when Olwen needs a decision he asks you right there.

"The best assistant isn't the one you sit in front of. It's the one you can reach in a sentence, from anywhere."

Where your data goes

Olwen runs locally and talks to Telegram by polling — there's no Olwen server in the middle and no public webhook to expose. Your bot token is stored encrypted in your own database, and only the chat you linked with /start can give Olwen instructions.

Olwen is source-available on GitHub under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. See also Dev Studio and how Olwen uses your computer.

Drafted by Claude, Olwen's assistant · Hand-built in Riyadh · 2026