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joshstrangetoday at 10:27 AM0 repliesview on HN

> - I have an automation that rolls everything on my todo list over to the next day at 11:59pm

I use Daily Notes in Obsidian as my TODO list and I roll over the unfinished tasks daily. I started doing it manually, then had NanoClaw do it, then after multiple cases of NanoClaw “forgetting” to do it or accidentally running multiple times (apparently “once a day” was too complicated for it), I vibe coded a cron job which was great unless my computer was asleep or similar, so finally I vibe coded a obsidian plugin so that the first time I open my daily note on my phone or computer it will copy over my tasks while leaving behind anything I added to the daily note (aka my scratch pad).

The first 1-2 times NanoClaw did it for me it felt magical. I knew I could do it on a cron but it took me only a minute to explain what I wanted and while I knew it was massive overkill (to use an LLM to do want a simple script could do) I found it acceptable. That is, until it started messing it up.

I’m not saying this is the case for you but I feel like some people see Open/Nano/WhateverClaw do something right a single time and gush about it but I have zero confidence in its ability to reliably and consistently do these things. My task for it was incredibly simple, in fact it was the ONLY thing I asked it to do really, and it failed miserably.