A Telegram Channel Admin's Daily Routine (That Takes 25 Minutes)

Most “how to run a channel” advice skips the actual job: the daily grind of reading everything and publishing the few things that matter. This is the real routine — measured, not idealized. One curation cycle covers ~200 incoming posts and takes 20–30 minutes instead of the two hours it used to.

Morning: one scan, top-down (≈10 minutes)

1. Open TG Manager, hit Scan. It pulls everything your sources posted since the last sync.
2. The feed is already sorted by AI score — best stories on top, duplicates merged into single story cards, everything in your language.
3. Triage by headline: Delete what you'll never use, open what looks promising. Ninety percent of cards die here, in seconds each.

Publishing: two keystrokes per post

1. Enter on a card opens its prepared draft — headline, summary, media and source link already filled in.
2. Change nothing? Ctrl+Enter publishes immediately. The duplicate guard silently blocks anything your channel has already covered.
3. The card hides itself and you land on the next one. No context switching.

During the day: auto-scan keeps the loop short

Auto Scan pulls new items every 5–60 minutes (your choice). High-scoring stories turn green, so an evening cycle is another 15–20 minutes instead of a second full sweep. Because every cycle is small, nothing piles up into a Sunday-evening backlog.

Weekly extras (optional)

• Tune topic weights when you notice the ranking drifting from your taste — re-scoring is instant.
• Add a blocked topic the first time an annoying theme shows up three times.
• Review the credits log if you run hot — or switch triage to a local model and pay nothing.

Why this works when “just check Telegram more often” doesn't

The old way made reading and deciding one undivided activity — you had to read everything to know what mattered. The new way splits them: AI reads everything, you only decide. Deciding is the part worth a human. Reading was never the job.