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Donna connects to Google Calendar so it can see the shape of your day and size the next Action to the time you have before your next meeting. You connect once through Google’s own consent screen, which grants two narrow permissions: read and write access to your calendar events, and read-only access to the list of your calendars. The permissions cover events only: Donna cannot change who your calendar is shared with, and cannot create or delete calendars. With your calendar connected, Donna sizes each Action to your open gaps and notices when your day drifts from what you planned. If a due date only becomes real to you at the last minute, the guide on ADHD and deadlines covers how a visible date and a connected calendar keep the timeline outside your head.

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What it reads, and what it can change

What it reads

Event titles, start and end times, who is attending, and which calendar each event is on. Event descriptions are never requested from Google.

What it can change for you

When you ask, or when you drag an event on the day calendar, Donna can create, move, resize, or delete events. Those changes write back to Google.
New events Donna creates go on your Google account’s default calendar. There is no calendar to pick in settings. Donna syncs a rolling window (about two weeks ahead, refreshed when it has gone stale, roughly every ten minutes) and works from your next few events. Attendee names let Donna anchor work to real events, like “write the intro before your 3pm with Sarah”; it only names a person when your calendar shows them on that event. Google returns each attendee’s name, email address, and whether they accepted or declined, and Donna keeps that alongside the event. What it works from is narrower: at most three attendee names per event, plus a count of anyone beyond those three, and the name only, falling back to the part of the address before the @ when a person has no name set.

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Putting your tracked time on the calendar

This one is off until you turn it on, in the calendar section of settings. With it on, each Action you finish or stop yourself writes the time you actually spent onto your calendar as a past event. Work you skipped, parked, or walked away from writes nothing. The event says nothing about what you were doing: the title is Tracked time and the description is Recorded in Donna. That is deliberate, since this is a calendar other people may be able to read. The write is best-effort. If it fails, your time is still recorded in Donna and nothing else is affected. Every other change to your calendar is one you ask for or drag.
If the event is shared or you were invited to it, an edit may notify the other attendees, the same way any edit to a shared event can.

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How to connect it

  1. Open settings from the sliders menu in the bottom-left (on a phone, the menu glyph in the bottom bar, then Settings) and find the calendar section.
  2. Choose connect a calendar. Donna sends you to Google’s own sign-in and consent screen.
  3. Grant access to your events and your calendar list. Donna can now see your day and adjust events when you ask.
Today this is Google Calendar, connected through your Google account. Donna may also offer to connect your calendar right in the chat.

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Disconnecting

In the calendar section in settings, choose disconnect on the connected row, then confirm remove?. That revokes Donna’s access with Google and clears the synced events.
Donna reads your calendar to infer the shape of your day. It does not track what you do outside your events, and Your data and privacy covers what it stores.

Connect your other tools

Gmail, Notion, Todoist, Slack, and more.