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mm answers one question — what now — with exactly one task. Mark what matters as a gate and mm won't offer you anything easier until it's done. Interrupts preempt, then unwind. Habits sync both ways with your Obsidian daily note. Zero dependencies, MIT.

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I built mm because my problem was never remembering what to do. It was opening a perfectly good to-do list, seeing eleven things, and picking the easiest one. Every app I tried answered "what have I got?" — and that question always has a comfortable answer. So mm only answers "what now", with exactly one task. The part that actually changed my days is gates. You mark the work that matters as a gate, and while it is open mm refuses to hand you anything else. Not a red label. Not a nag. The easy task is still in the list, greyed out and marked gate-locked, and the tool simply will not offer it. You can always override it — mm done closes anything — but you have to type that, on purpose. Turns out that is the whole difference. Two other things I use every day: → Interrupts go on a stack that unwinds. Something urgent preempts everything, and closing it puts you back on the exact task you left, rather than quietly replacing it. → Habits sync both ways with my Obsidian daily note. I tick "reading" in Obsidian, it leaves the queue with the streak credited. I run mm done, the box ticks itself. It is Python 3.11+, zero dependencies, MIT, and everything lives in ~/.mm as plain files. No account, no server, no telemetry — there is no network code in it at all. What it is not: there is no GUI and no phone app, no due dates and no reminders. If you need those, a normal to-do app is genuinely the better tool and I would rather you keep using it. I would love to hear where gates break for you — especially the day you override one, and why. That is the feedback I cannot get from my own usage.