FIELD NOTE / PRODUCT MODEL
One queue. One current task.
Mellavi organizes each part of life as an ordered queue. The first item is the answer to “what should I do now?” and the rest remain visible without competing equally for attention.
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Categories separate contexts
A new Mellavi installation begins with Work and Personal. Add categories only when a group of tasks needs its own ordering. Categories are not projects with dashboards and status reports; they are boundaries that stop unrelated work from competing in one list.
Position is the priority
Tasks are ordered inside each category. The first task is visually stronger and becomes that category’s current task. Moving a task changes the queue itself instead of adding another priority field you must interpret later.
Rows place categories vertically and tasks horizontally. The transposed view rotates that reading model: categories become columns and tasks run downward. The underlying order stays the same.
Focus mode narrows execution
Press F and Mellavi opens the first task of the active category—not whichever task happened to be selected for editing. Management controls disappear. The remaining surface contains the task, its one-level queue of subtasks, and an exit control.
That rule keeps selection and execution separate: you can reorganize later work without accidentally changing what “focus” means.
Subtasks remain a queue
A task can contain one level of subtasks. They are completed from top to bottom and cannot contain children of their own. This keeps decomposition useful without recreating a project-management tree inside one task.
Changes are recoverable
Completion, deletion, editing, additions, and movement participate in undo and redo. Completion and deletion ask for confirmation. The product is fast because navigation is direct, not because safeguards are removed.