Remind the people you care about
Until now, Donna only helped you. Now she helps the people around you too. Set reminders for your mom, partner, roommate — anyone on WhatsApp.
"Take your medicine"
⏰ 8:00 PM today
"Take your medicine"
⏰ 8:00 PM today
Take your medicine
👤 Set by Emily
You text Donna
"Remind Mom to take medicine at 8pm" — use a saved name or phone number.
Donna delivers
The recipient gets a heads-up immediately. Then the reminder fires on time.
Everyone's covered
They can snooze or complete it. You can track everything with "reminders I sent".
Just text Donna: "remind [name/number] to [task] at [time]"
Feedback Command & Smarter Reminders
Your voice matters — now there's a direct way to share it. Plus, reminders got smarter and less noisy.
- New Feedback command — type "feedback your message" to share ideas, suggestions, or report issues directly to our team
- Improved Smarter follow-up reminders — fewer, better-timed nudges so you're reminded without being overwhelmed
Hindi Voice Notes & Smarter Lists
Voice notes now work in Hindi and 30+ other languages. Lists got smarter too — adding and deleting by name just works.
- New Voice notes now auto-detect language — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and 30+ languages work out of the box
- New Delete lists by name: "delete reading list" or "delete movies, reading lists"
- Fixed "Add time to first token to the reading list" no longer creates a junk list — items containing "to" are now parsed correctly
Forwarded Messages & Recurring Fixes
Forwarded messages are now handled more robustly, and recurring reminders are more reliable than ever.
- Improved Forwarded messages now produce clean, meaningful tasks — no more garbled text or broken formatting in your reminders
- Fixed You can now say "at 5pm" after forwarding a message and Donna updates the same reminder instead of ignoring the follow-up
- Fixed Recurring reminders no longer skip an occurrence — tapping Done or Skip on an older notification won't cause Donna to jump ahead and miss your next one
- Improved When Donna creates multiple reminders from a single message, she now checks each one against your existing reminders and quietly skips duplicates
- Improved Plus a handful of behind-the-scenes improvements to how Donna manages reminders internally — cleaner state resets, smarter scheduling, and fewer edge cases overall
Under-the-Hood Hardening
17 fixes across reliability, timezone handling, security, and code quality — making Donna tougher and smarter behind the scenes.
- Fixed Done/Snooze buttons now work when tapped outside the 24-hour WhatsApp messaging window
- Fixed LLM calls now have a 15-second timeout — no more silent hangs when AI providers are slow
- Fixed "Snooze to tomorrow" now uses your timezone instead of server time — no more 4:30 AM wake-ups
- Fixed "Cancel recurring 3" no longer cancels the wrong reminder
- Fixed Timezone display in voice notes, images, and emails now shows your actual timezone instead of hardcoded IST
- Fixed Smart time defaults (morning/evening) now use your timezone, not server UTC
- Fixed Old completed reminders no longer accidentally delete active recurring series
- Fixed Reminders that fail to deliver no longer get stuck in an infinite resend loop
- Improved Database queries are now indexed for faster reminder lookups
- Improved Conversation history capped to last 10 messages — faster AI responses
- Improved Graceful shutdown — clean restarts with no lost reminders during deploys
- Improved Consolidated date formatting across all handlers — consistent time display everywhere
- Improved Webhook security tightened — unsigned requests are now rejected
Reliability & Smarts
A handful of fixes that make Donna more reliable and better at understanding what you mean.
- Fixed Recurring reminders no longer get stuck in a loop — daily reminders like "Drink water" now fire exactly once per day, every time
- Improved Say "remind me to buy groceries" then follow up with "at 3pm" — Donna now updates the same reminder instead of creating a duplicate
- Fixed Normal reminders no longer accidentally trigger nag mode — only explicit words like "nag me" or "urgent" will activate it
- Improved Cleaned up 1,000+ inactive recurring reminders that were running in the background with no one listening
- New Recurring reminders that repeatedly fail to deliver are now automatically paused so they don't keep trying forever
Smarter Command Parsing
Three fixes that make Donna much better at understanding what you actually mean.
- Fixed "Complete project update today 2pm" no longer mistaken for a "done" command — it's now correctly treated as a new reminder
- Fixed "Add this to reading list https://..." now properly recognized as a list action even with URLs
- Fixed Dates like "remind me on 18th March" or "on the 25th" no longer replaced with a 2-hour default
Better Reminder Detection
Donna is now smarter at recognizing reminders in natural language.
- Improved Messages like "Share refund policies with Pakhi" are now correctly treated as reminders instead of casual conversation
- Improved Donna no longer asks for clarification when the task is clear — she just creates the reminder
Daily Morning Summary
Donna now sends you a personalized summary every morning at 9am — what you completed, what's overdue, and what's coming up today.
- New Daily summary with completed, pending, and upcoming reminders
- New Clean slate motivational message when you have no reminders
- Improved Timezone-aware delivery — works across India, Pakistan, US, Australia
Smarter Forwarded Messages
Forwarded messages are now handled more intelligently when no specific time is mentioned.
- Fixed Forwarded messages without a specific time now default to 2 hours instead of inventing a random time
- Improved Better detection of explicit time references in forwarded text
Snooze Reliability Fix
Fixed an issue where snoozed reminders could get stuck after reaching the maximum number of follow-ups.
- Fixed Snoozed reminders now properly restart follow-up notifications
Completion Tracking
Better tracking of when reminders are marked as done, powering more accurate daily summaries.
- Improved More accurate tracking of when reminders are marked as done
- New Dedicated completion timestamps for better daily summary data
Shopping Lists & Memory
Create and manage lists right in WhatsApp — shopping lists, to-do lists, idea lists, and more.
- New Create and manage lists right in WhatsApp — shopping lists, to-do lists, idea lists
- New Natural language list management: "add milk to my grocery list", "show my grocery list"
- New Check off items, clear lists, delete lists with confirmation
Recurring Reminders
Set daily, weekly, monthly, or custom interval reminders that fire automatically.
- New Set daily, weekly, monthly, or custom interval reminders
- New Pause, resume, and skip individual occurrences
- New End conditions: never, specific date, or after N occurrences
Voice Notes & Images
Donna can now understand voice notes and read images to create reminders for you.
- New Send a voice note and Donna transcribes it into a reminder
- New Send a photo of a note, whiteboard, or receipt — Donna reads it and creates reminders
Nag Mode
For things that absolutely must happen — Donna keeps reminding you until it's done.
- New Say "nag me" or "urgent" and Donna follows up every 30 minutes instead of every 2 hours
- New Up to 10 follow-ups for nag mode reminders
Launch
Donna is live on WhatsApp — set reminders by texting naturally, just like messaging a friend.
- New Donna is live on WhatsApp — set reminders by texting naturally
- New Smart time defaults: "call mom tomorrow" becomes tomorrow 9am
- New Snooze by replying to any reminder message
- New Done/Snooze buttons on every reminder notification