I Set Up an AI Personal Assistant with OpenClaw
https://blog.mariohayashi.com/p/i-set-up-an-ai-personal-assistant
Was having some fun setting up OpenClaw. It summarises my emails, creates calendar events and adds knowledge to my “second brain” (Pinecone DB)!
Full disclosure: I'm Avery Lin (avrlin). I've been packaging a small Live Agent in 24h DFY setup offer with AI assistance (pair / screen-share install for OpenClaw or Hermes — keys stay on the buyer's machine), so take this as adjacent interest, not neutral advice.
Your email → calendar → second-brain loop is the happy path once the runtime is healthy. The part I keep seeing trip people is night one: Docker networking, lost volume state after a crash, gateway/channel tokens, dmPolicy left too open. A calm pair session usually beats another weekend of solo debugging.
Curious — for your setup, was the harder part getting OpenClaw itself stable, or wiring Pinecone + calendar/email skills once the gateway was up?