Tortoise: A Productivity CLI That Caps Daily Plans to Encourage Consistency

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The author built Tortoise, a small command-line tool aimed at reducing the overplanning common in productivity software. It converts a markdown task backlog into a daily plan with one anchor task and at most two support tasks, bounded by a user-set focus budget. An open-weight Gemma model selects the anchor task, while deterministic guardrails constrain its output. A streak counter tracks consecutive days of completed work to reward consistency over intensity. The project was developed for a 'Slow and Steady' challenge theme in the DEV community.

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