I use Telegram for two different things. And one of them I don't want to do manually anymore.

In my previous post I wrote that Telegram stopped being just a messenger for me a long time ago. I kept thinking about it and realized one important thing: I actually use Telegram for two completely different jobs.

The first one is communication. Chats with friends, work conversations, family chats. This part is fine — this is what a messenger is made for, and it works.

The second one is gathering and finding information. Channels, topic-based chats, communities, local marketplaces, last-minute travel deals, long work discussions. And this is where it hurts. Because in practice I have to read everything myself, filter it myself, remember it myself, search for what I need myself. That's not communication anymore — that's work. And this is the work I don't want to do manually anymore.

A few examples from my own life:

• Local marketplace chats. In my city there are several chats where people sell things. There really are great deals there at great prices — but the good ones disappear within minutes. When I was picking a phone, I had to check these chats several times a day. I was also looking for a camera lens — and a few times I saw great offers too late and just lost the opportunity.
• A chat for young moms. I'm on maternity leave right now, and this is one of the most valuable chats for me — other moms share real experience. But there are hundreds of messages per day. When I have a specific question — for example, "what problems did you run into when introducing solids?" — I know the answer is almost certainly in there, somewhere in the last 2–3 weeks, because a lot of us have kids of roughly the same age. But to find it, I'd have to either scroll through thousands of messages or guess the right keywords. Most of the time I just don't look — and live without that answer.
• Last-minute travel deals. Before our vacation, I subscribed to a couple of channels like that. There really were good offers — but I'd either forget to check or not react in time, and the deal would be gone.
• Work chats. Discussions are long, and the information is scattered across dozens of messages. Sometimes I just wish I could get a summary of the day's conversation: what was discussed, what was decided, what was important. Instead — I re-read the whole thread manually.
• Recently I was trying to find a pediatrician recommendation that someone had shared in a chat of 5,000 messages a couple of weeks earlier — and I never found it.

All of this has one thing in common: the information is there, it's useful, but getting to it costs me time, attention, and energy. And sometimes — real money or missed opportunities. And I caught myself thinking: I don't want to "optimize" this process — I want to take it off my plate entirely.

I'm curious how this looks for you:

• Do you have chats or channels you consider valuable, but scrolling through them has become unbearable?
• Has there been a time when you missed something important — a purchase, an opportunity, an answer to a question — simply because you didn't make it in time or couldn't find it?
• If there were an "assistant" that read these chats for you and handed you just the essence — what would it need to do first?