Telegram to Your Second Brain — Windows Setup Guide

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The only things this needs from you are your phone number and a one-time login code. Everything else is handled for you. No keys, no accounts to set up.

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Easiest way: just ask your Command Center

If you have the Command Center (Claude Code) app, you don't need PowerShell at all.

Save the telegram-to-brain-windows.zip that was sent to you (your Downloads folder is fine).
Open your Command Center app and type: /import-telegram
It does the setup for you. It will ask you three things in the chat, your phone number, the login code Telegram sends you, and which chats to pull. That's all you do.

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Approve each step when it asks. You never open PowerShell and never type any commands. If you don't have the Command Center app, use the manual steps below instead.

Or do it manually (no Command Center app)

Unzip the file

Find the telegram-to-brain-windows.zip that was sent to you.

Right-click it → Extract All → Extract. You'll get a folder with the files inside. Keep them together.

Open PowerShell in that folder

This is the easiest way, it opens the command window already pointed at the right place.

Open the unzipped folder in File Explorer.
Click the address bar at the top (where the folder path is).
Type powershell and press Enter. A blue window opens.

Start it

Copy this line, paste it into the blue window (right-click pastes), and press Enter:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\telegram-install.ps1

The first time, it installs what it needs and downloads the transcription model. Give it a few minutes. This only happens once.

If it asks about Python

On some PCs Python isn't installed yet. If so, the script installs it, then asks you to restart the window.

Close the blue window.
Reopen PowerShell in the folder (Step 2 again) and run the same line from Step 3.

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This restart is only needed the once, so Windows notices the newly installed Python.

Log in (one time)

It will ask you three things:

Your phone number , type it with the country code, e.g. +27...
A login code , Telegram sends this inside the Telegram app itself (a message from "Telegram"), not by SMS. Open Telegram, read the code, type it in.
Your Telegram password , only if you have two-step verification turned on.

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This login happens once. After it, the tool remembers you and never asks again.

Choose your chats

It lists your chats with message counts.
Type the exact name of each chat you want, one per line.
Press Enter on a blank line when you're done.

Save and finish

Where to save: press Enter to accept the default, or paste a folder path.
Voice notes: press Enter for yes (they'll be transcribed automatically).

When it finishes, it tells you exactly where your files are.

The whole thing at a glance

What happens, start to finish

Unzip the file
   → Open PowerShell in the folder  (address bar → type "powershell")
      → powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\telegram-install.ps1
         → (installs Python the first time if needed)
            → phone number  +  login code (from inside Telegram)
               → pick your chats
                  → one file per chat, text + transcribed voice notes
                     → done, it shows you where

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If anything stops or shows an error: select all the text in the blue window (Ctrl+A), copy it (Ctrl+C), and send it back to us. That's exactly what we need to sort it out fast. It's also safe to just run the same line again.

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Privacy. Everything runs on your PC and nothing is uploaded. Only the chats you name get imported. If you pick a group chat, it includes the other people's messages too, so choose the ones you actually want.