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assistant · May 10, 20265 things Hermes does that ChatGPT will never dou/ninjapapi · Personal assistant · May 7, 2026Cronjobs nudging me on Discord and Signal for executive function@o_o__o_o000 · Personal assistant · May 7, 2026Telegram assistant recalled Japan-trip preferences while planning a France tripVivek Shetye (YouTube) · Personal assistant · May 4, 2026One Hermes for the whole family on WhatsApp@EXM7777 · Personal assistant · Apr 30, 2026Apple Health, Threads analytics, Gmail, Calendar — in one CLIKeith Rumjahn (Substack) · Personal assistant · Apr 26, 2026Obsidian as the long-term memory backbone for Hermes (794 upvotes)u/Jonathan_Rivera · Personal assistant · Apr 23, 2026Self-hosted Google Drive replacement with Nextcloud + LibreOffice@salma.1492 · Personal assistant · Apr 18, 2026Hermes + Qwen3.5:4b on a 5060Ti is all I needu/Birdinhandandbush · Personal assistant · Apr 16, 2026Jarvis at home in 2026@mishig25 · Personal assistant · Apr 15, 2026Sometimes Hermes Agent melts my heart@pfanis · Personal assistant · Apr 14, 2026Hermes manages my tasks across Obsidian, Apple Calendar and Signal@kouff · Personal assistant · Apr 11, 2026How I use Hermes memory: durable facts, session search, skills@tonywhelan · Personal assistant · Apr 10, 2026Replaced everything with a single Hermes agent@NickSpisak_ · Personal assistant · Apr 10, 2026Hermes vs OpenClaw: memory lets me jump between projectsu/patbhakta · Personal assistant · Apr 9, 2026Raspberry Pi 5 running Hermes 24/7@winterwarrior · Personal assistant · Apr 4, 2026Obsidian, home automation, VPS server management — on a cheap VPSrnxrx (Hacker News) · Personal assistant · Mar 31, 2026Private Telegram topics, each with its own skill bindingsMr. Ånand (Substack) · Personal assistant · Mar 31, 2026'Every weekday at 9am, summarize my inbox and post to Slack'Anthony Maio (Substack) · Personal assistant · Mar 30, 2026Daily journaling into Obsidian, learning to use OSS models@jezza2463 · Personal assistant · Mar 29, 2026Hermes very good as personal agent on Qwen3.5 27Bu/Suitable_Currency440 · Personal assistant · Mar 8, 2026'Every morning at 9am, check HN for AI news and DM me on Telegram'arshtechpro (dev.to) · Personal assistant · Feb 28, 2026Google Tasks integration@oangelo · Personal assistant · 2026Bedtime stories for my daughter@kovern · Personal assistant · 2026Hermes running on a Pi 4 as my home server@manojmukkamala · Personal assistant · 2026Horse-racing Telegram community bot@Chrisr6records · Personal assistant · 2026Proactive check-ins ('anything you want me to watch this afternoon?')@alexferrari88 · Personal assistant · 2026Hermes over iMessage on my always-on Mac Studio@trevorgordon981 · Personal assistant · 2026One agent, many roles: nutritionist, developer, finance advisor@OlegB333 · Personal assistant · 2026Claude for chat, Hermes 24/7 on a mini PC for real-world stuff@monty_13277 · Personal assistantTwo-tier email pipeline so the LLM only fires when needed@mayuronx · Personal assistantBuilt mapsOS because 'rate your mood 1–10' wasn't my brain@modest.maoist · Personal assistantVoice-first fitness coach that learns my body over time@muschi2396 · Personal assistantA meal planner for people who hate logging ingredients@sergiparpal · Personal assistantA semantic knowledge substrate I made for my brain@modest.maoist · Personal assistantHermes reads HackerNews and emails me a daily summary@awais_h · Personal assistantGiving my agent iOS sensors: health, location, voice@djbuck · Personal assistantStandalone, but I built it to use with Hermes@wysie_ · Personal assistantPulling my Whoop data into Hermes locally@wysie_ · Personal assistant
A personal assistant that actually helps
Personal setups are where most people start. Look for the routines that stuck: morning summaries, notes that compound, reminders that arrive in the chat app people already use.