SlothPlan: The To-Do List That Tells You to Do Less
Discover SlothPlan, a command-line tool built for the Hacktoberfest AI challenge that triages messy to-do lists down to just three tasks using local open-weight models.
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- SlothPlan is a command-line utility built for Week 3 of the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge.
- It processes a messy task list into three clear buckets: Do Today, Defer, and Delete.
- The entire tool runs locally using open-weight models with zero API costs and total privacy.
- A deterministic guardrail layer ensures that model quirks do not cause critical task deletions.
Modern productivity culture typically addresses overwhelming task lists by adding more features like priorities, tags, or subscription-based AI scheduling assistants that require deep calendar access. Instead of easing the burden, these additions often make the triage process heavier. SlothPlan was created to handle the sorting process and explicitly give users permission to do less.
The utility accepts a raw text file of tasks and sorts them into three specific categories: DO TODAY (capped strictly at three items), DEFER (officially postponed), and DELETE (given written permission to let go). Each item is accompanied by a concise one-line rationale generated by a local open-weight model combined with deterministic code guarantees.
Source: Dev.to
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