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You delegate your executive function to Donna. There is no system to set up, no method to learn, and no list to keep. Donna carries the load an ADHD brain finds expensive: it holds the plan, prioritizes, tracks time, decides what comes next, and reframes work that has stalled. Your part is to approve the next step or skip it, and to do the actual work.

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The jobs Donna runs

Each of these is a real function Donna performs, and each has a page where it becomes concrete.
  • Holding the plan. Donna keeps track of what you are trying to land and where each thing stands. You never build or groom a plan yourself. See Outcomes.
  • Prioritizing. It weighs your Outcomes, your calendar, and the day you are having, then picks what deserves attention now.
  • Tracking time. It reads your calendar and sizes work to the window before your next commitment, so you do not have to estimate.
  • Deciding what comes next. It builds one next step at a time, an Action, rather than showing you a list.
  • Reframing stalled work. When something is not moving, Donna changes the angle or the size instead of repeating the same task back to you. See Adaptation.
Running these functions outside your head is a form of cognitive offloading, which research links to better follow-through when internal memory is unreliable (Risko and Gilbert, 2016). Externalizing executive function is also what clinicians recommend for ADHD specifically: put the cue outside the head, at the point where the action happens (Barkley, 1997). Donna automates that strategy.

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Donna proposes, you decide

Donna offers the next move and a reason for it. You take it, change it, shrink it, or skip it. It waits for your go before acting, and when you skip, Donna builds a different step instead of handing you the same one again.
Donna does not explain its own methodology mid-conversation or narrate what it is doing. It shows you the next step and the reason for it, and keeps the rest of its reasoning out of the way.

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Donna learns your patterns

The longer you work with Donna, the more it knows your patterns: when your energy is sharp, what kind of framing gets you started, what tends to stall. What Donna keeps, and what you control, is covered in Memory.

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Where this becomes concrete

The delegation model shows up as two product nouns. An Outcome is a durable thing you are trying to land. An Action is the single next step toward one, built fresh each time. Start with Outcomes.