Tell Will.
What you will.
Open Telegram. Speak, type, photograph, or forward a parchment of PDF — Will sets it down, offers a tag in a single tap, and calls you back when the appointed hour comes.
Note set down
1 tag · 1 bell
@willbot
On stage · ready
Set down. Shall we tag it #health, #appointment, or skip the matter?
Will, of Telegram
Notetaker, scribe, and timely whisperer.
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” — Twelfth Night, II.v
A quill in your chat list. He keeps your hours, ledger, and idle thoughts; tags them, summons them when called, and never tells the patrons. Named, not idly, after the Bard's own private rhyme on the word will.
- Anno Domini
- MMXXVI
- Licence
- MIT
- Stage
- Telegram & web
What Will keeps
Voice notes
🎙️
Whisper transcribes; Will preserves the audio.
Photo capture
📷
GPT-4o vision captions whiteboards and pages.
PDF imports
📜
Forward a parchment; Will extracts a note + summary.
Active bells
🕰️
A cron rings you back when the hour is due.
A journal in the chat you already have open.
Most journals fail because the very act of opening them is a labour of its own. Will dwells where you already are — in your chat list — so capture happens in the few seconds before the thought escapes into the night. No new icon to install upon thy device. No daily-streak guilt to keep. Will is a quiet bot that listens, files, and reminds — and a calm web folio when you wish to read it back.
- Telegram-first
Most usage happens in Telegram. Text, voice, photos, PDFs — Will renders all of them down to a tidy note. The web is a calm folio you may scroll at leisure.
- Active reminders
Where a note bears a date or hour, Will offers to set a Telegram bell. A cron rings the due reminders every minute — no birthdays forgotten, no farewells unsaid.
- AI tagging
Each new note is met with a single-tap tag suggestion: "Shall we mark this #idea, #shopping, or #reminder?" One tap or skip — your choice.
- Multilingual
Speak to Will in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or Arabic. The web stays in the King's tongue; the bot answers in whatever you set.
- Privacy-first
GDPR-compliant. Soft-delete with a thirty-day grace, full data export, no third-party trackers in the wings. Your notes are yours.
- MIT, self-hostable
Plain Next.js + Postgres beneath an MIT licence. Run him on Vercel, Fly, Railway, or your own bare-metal box. Optional integrations all bow gracefully when the env is bare.
Bring your own bot. Host your own folio.
Will is plain Next.js + Postgres beneath an MIT licence. Run him on Vercel, Fly, Railway, or your own bare-metal box. Optional integrations (Telegram, Resend, Upstash, Blob, Turnstile) all bow gracefully when env vars are missing.
# clone the folio, point at thy database
git clone https://github.com/kyberis/notetaker
cd notetaker
cp .env.example .env
npm install
npx prisma migrate deploy
npm run devFrictionless capture beats clever organisation.
Get the thought out of thy head and into the chat. Tags, summaries, and bells are added afterwards by Will — never the price of admission to the journal.
Begin thy chronicle.
Sign up with email, Google, or a passkey. Connect Telegram in two taps. Send Will thy first note in the next thirty seconds — what you will.