Digest Bot: your channel roundup

Subscribed to two dozen channels and see a hundred unread posts every morning? Digest Bot collects new posts from the channels you pick into one digest and delivers it at a time that suits you. Instead of a stream of notifications, you get one tidy message. 📰

Everything happens inside Telegram, with no outside services or email. The idea is simple: you choose the sources and the hour, and the bot makes a mailing just for you.

Your own morning edition

The principle resembles a personal email newsletter, only built from Telegram channels. You add channels through the bot, set an hour, and at that time a summary of new publications arrives.

The bot focuses on text: it aggregates posts and presents them as a compact list. That helps you quickly judge what deserves a full read and what you can skim.

Commands you will use

• /set. Sets the time for receiving the digest.
• /update. Sends a summary right away instead of waiting for the schedule.
• /list. Shows your subscriptions.
• /remove. Drops a channel from your subscriptions.
• /schedule. Reminds you of the mailing schedule.
• /mirror and /mirrorstop. Turn duplication of the digest into your own channel on and off.
• /help. Shows the help message.

For channel owners

The mirror command helps editors and curators. You gather a selection of interesting posts from different sources, and the bot sends it to your channel by itself. Subscribers get a regular roundup without manual work.

If you run a themed selection, such as industry news, a digest like this saves hours. Remember to credit sources and respect the authors of the original channels.

Setup in five minutes

1. Open the bot and press /start.
2. Add the channels you want in the digest.
3. Pick an hour with /set, for example before breakfast.
4. Check the result with /update.
5. Remove noisy channels with /remove if the digest comes out too long.

Making a digest useful

Do not add everything. Five to seven channels you truly need give a better result than forty, of which you read three.

Split channels by time of day: news for the morning, learning material for the evening. If the bot lets you set one time only, keep the most important sources in it.

Review the list once a month. Channels you never opened from a digest can safely go.

Things to consider

The bot does not replace reading: a short summary can miss context, images or long analyses. For important material, open the original post.

Do not hand the bot extra data: channel names are enough. If a service asks for account access or a phone number, that is a reason to be wary.

The bot's audience is above one hundred forty thousand people, so the idea of a personal digest clearly appealed to many.