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Modo Tortuga: a local Gemma that turns a 30-item to-do list into three tiny first steps

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 3 . What I Built Modo Tortuga ("Turtle Mode") is for the days when the list is so long that the laziest option is to not start at all. You give it a plain text file with up to 30 to-dos, one per line, written however you like…

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  1. 2026-10-26 03:35 · DEV Community — AI
    Modo Tortuga: a local Gemma that turns a 30-item to-do list into three tiny first steps

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