# Donna

> Help docs for Donna, the assistant that carries your executive function so you can get things done.

## Docs

- [Donna: The Executive Function Partner for ADHD Brains](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/index.md): A map of these docs: the ideas behind Donna, the shape of a day, and where to start.
- [Getting started: signing up and your first conversation](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/quickstart.md): What happens between the sign-up form and your first Action, including what the trial costs and what is on screen the first time the app opens.
- [A quick tour of Donna, your executive function partner](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/the-tour.md): Where each control lives and what it opens. The table at the end is the whole page in eight rows.
- [Is Donna for you? An honest answer for ADHD brains](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/is-this-for-me.md): Who Donna fits, with or without a diagnosis, and where its limits are.
- [What Donna does, and what you do](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/concepts/how-donna-thinks.md): The division of labor when you delegate executive function: the jobs Donna carries, the part that stays yours, and where each piece becomes concrete.
- [Outcomes in Donna: the things you are trying to land](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/concepts/outcomes.md): You reach for an Outcome when something matters enough to be worth following for weeks and to carry a picture of what done looks like.
- [Outcomes over time: the outcomes view and the showcase](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/concepts/outcomes-over-time.md): The two step-back views for a longer arc, what each one shows, and what you can do from them.
- [Cycles: short commitments that get an Outcome done](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/concepts/cycles.md): When an Outcome will take several sittings across a few days, a Cycle gives it a window and an Action count small enough to picture finishing.
- [Actions: the one next step, built fresh](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/concepts/actions.md): Why you only ever see one step at a time, and how Donna shapes each one to the moment you are in.
- [Habits: saved starts for work you come back to](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/concepts/routines.md): Save work you come back to as a one-tap start with an optional rhythm. Counts only ever go up, and today's finished Habits fold away.
- [Capture: a home for the loose ends](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/concepts/capture.md): Where loose ends wait until they fit your day. You never sort the pile, and it never turns into a backlog to clear.
- [Memory: what Donna keeps from your work](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/concepts/work-and-memory.md): What carries forward when you finish working, the full list of what Donna stores, and the controls you have over it.
- [Adaptation: how Donna adjusts to your day](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/concepts/how-donna-adapts.md): Why the same task meets you differently on a low day than a strong one, and why a gap is never held against you.
- [The morning brief: one calm screen to start from](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/daily/morning-check-in.md): The one screen Donna shows when you open the app, and the three ways you can answer it.
- [Starting an Action: get from an idea to a running timer](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/daily/starting-an-action.md): How the ⌘K launcher works, what its list holds, and the other ways into the work view.
- [Working an Action: do the work inside Donna](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/daily/working-an-action.md): The count-up timer, the editor, the one question Donna answers while you write (why am I writing this?), and the break that comes after.
- [Sharing your work: share links and how to turn them off](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/daily/sharing-your-work.md): What a recipient can and cannot see, why the page they get stays current, and how to shut it off when you are done.
- [How Donna checks in and reaches out](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/daily/check-ins-and-nudges.md): When Donna speaks first, the rules every reach-out follows, and the settings that control all of it.
- [The end-of-day review: close out the day in one message](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/daily/end-of-day-review.md): Ask for it with /review whenever you want to close out the day, or let it arrive on its own the first time you open Donna in the evening.
- [Bad ADHD days: one thing or nothing, your call](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/daily/bad-days.md): What shifts when you are running low, what happens when you are genuinely overwhelmed, and the moves Donna makes when something will not budge.
- [Settling down: breathing and grounding when you're wound up](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/daily/settling-down.md): The two kinds of exercise Donna can guide, how it picks between them, and the visual that keeps the pace so you don't count in your head.
- [Dictation: Say It Instead of Typing It](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/channels/voice.md): Hold the mic, say the messy version, and it lands as editable text in the composer. What dictation does, where the control lives, and what it does not do.
- [Where to use Donna: in the browser and on the go](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/channels/apps.md): Every surface Donna is on today, what each one is for, and where settings live. The desktop and iPhone apps are still being built.
- [Connect your calendar so Donna can size each day](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/connections/calendar.md): The two permissions you grant, what Donna reads, what it changes when you ask, and the opt-in setting that puts your tracked time on the calendar.
- [Connect the tools you already work in to Donna](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/connections/integrations.md): Two ways to connect a tool, when Donna reaches into one, how sending stays behind a confirm step, and what disconnecting revokes.
- [Donna FAQ: Straight Answers to the First Questions](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/reference/faq.md): What people ask first about Donna: whether it is therapy, whether you need an ADHD diagnosis, what stepping away costs, and what it can see.
- [Donna Glossary: Every Word Donna Uses, Explained](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/reference/glossary.md): One-line definitions for Outcome, Action, Cycle, Capture, Area, and the other words you will meet in Donna and in these docs.
- [Keyboard shortcuts: the short list](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/reference/shortcuts.md): What ⌘K opens, what Enter and Shift+Enter do, which keys work inside the start list, and which typed commands still work.
- [Settings and personalization: the controls that exist today](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/reference/settings.md): Where settings lives, which controls are real, and how to change Donna's voice, your daily workload, and what Donna can see.
- [Troubleshooting Donna: Fix Common Snags in a Minute](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/reference/troubleshooting.md): Fix the common Donna snags in a minute: connecting your calendar, getting the mic to work, connecting your tools, and getting past the plan gate.
- [Your data and privacy: what Donna sees](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/reference/your-data.md): The full list of what Donna stores, and the controls you have: work-surface sharing, calendar disconnect, and deleting your account.
- [Donna Support: How to Get Help](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/support.md): How to reach the team behind Donna: email support, in-app feedback, and quick fixes for the common snags.
- [ADHD guides: find the one for what's in your way right now](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/index.md): ADHD guides sorted by what is in the way: starting and overwhelm, time and deadlines, habits and routines, support and accountability.
- [How to start a task when you're stuck: an ADHD guide](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/starting-when-stuck.md): Why task initiation is its own skill, three techniques that break the stall, and how Donna runs them for you.
- [Too much to do and frozen? Start with one thing](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/overwhelmed.md): Why an overloaded list stalls an ADHD brain, four steps that break the freeze, and how Donna does the sorting for you.
- [Can't reply to emails with ADHD? Shrink it to two lines](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/cant-reply-to-emails-adhd.md): Why an avoided message collects dread the longer it waits, and a way to break the loop, with Donna drafting beside you.
- [ADHD writing paralysis: how to get the first line down](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/adhd-writing-paralysis.md): Why a blank page is harder than the writing itself, the one-ugly-sentence method, and how Donna helps a rough draft get moving.
- [ADHD bad day and can't function? Start with the floor](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/getting-things-done-bad-day-adhd.md): Why capacity swings come with ADHD, what helps on a shutdown day, and how Donna sizes the day down to match.
- [ADHD and deadlines: staying ahead of slippery time](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/adhd-and-deadlines.md): For when a due date only feels real at the last minute: the moves that make time visible outside your head, and the parts Donna holds for you.
- [How to finish big projects with ADHD](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/finishing-big-projects-adhd.md): Why a distant finish line gives an ADHD brain nothing to work with, and a slice-by-slice way through that Donna can hold for you.
- [An ADHD morning routine that bends instead of breaking](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/adhd-morning-routine.md): A floor-first method: design the worst-morning version before the good one, then let Donna hold the shape of the day.
- [ADHD habit building: routines that survive a lapse](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/building-habits-with-adhd.md): Why streak-based trackers collapse with ADHD, and a renew-not-restart way to build a routine that Donna holds for you.
- [ADHD brain dump: a landing spot that never becomes a pile](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/adhd-brain-dump.md): Why the dumping ground usually becomes another backlog, and how to keep yours from doing that.
- [Body doubling without scheduling: a Focusmate alternative](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/body-doubling-without-scheduling.md): Where the research on body doubling actually stands, and how to get the useful part of it without booking a slot, a stranger, or a camera.
- [ADHD accountability partner: support that doesn't keep score](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/guides/adhd-accountability-partner.md): Why tracking-first accountability backfires with ADHD, what to ask of a partner instead, and how Donna runs the follow-through.
- [Claims ledger](https://meetdonna.xyz/docs/claims-ledger.md)