What's New in Donna

Recurring Reminders, Rebuilt

Recurring reminders now fire at the exact interval you asked for, stop when you say so, and never duplicate. Plus more accurate expense tracking.

• New True hourly and minute-level reminders — "remind me every 30 minutes to drink water" now actually fires every 30 minutes, not once a day
• New Stop a recurring reminder by name — say "cancel recurring drink water" and the whole series stops instantly. "delete" and "stop" work too
• Fixed Duplicate recurring reminders — one request could silently create multiple copies that each pinged you separately. Now a task can only ever have one series
• Fixed No more catch-up bursts — if a reminder fell behind, Donna would replay every missed occurrence in a flood of messages. She now quietly skips to the next upcoming one
• Fixed "My recurring" now shows only active reminders — finished series no longer clutter the list with stale dates
• Fixed Gmail connections no longer drop after 7 days — once connected, your email intelligence stays on
• New Foreign-currency spends auto-convert to ₹ at that day's exchange rate, so your expense totals are always in one currency
• Improved Expense summaries are now short and scannable — total plus top categories, with details one question away

Expense Tracking Gets Precise

Every tracked transaction now records which card paid and the real merchant name, and bank emails that aren't spending no longer count.

• New Every spend now records its payment source — which card or account paid, down to the last 4 digits (like "ICICI Credit Card •7013") — so reconciling against statements is effortless
• Improved Merchant names now extracted from many more bank email formats, including card alerts that hide the merchant deep in the message
• Fixed Bank statements, payment confirmations, failed payments, and EMI notices no longer count as spending — totals reflect only money that actually left your account

Alexa & Smart Home

Donna steps out of the chat window and into your home.

• New Alexa integration — link your Amazon account and Donna works with your Echo devices
• New Smart home support — connect devices through account linking and control them via Donna
• New Flows are live — automations like stock alerts and expense tracking that run for you in the background

One-Tap Google Connect

Connecting your Gmail and Calendar used to take too many steps. Now it's one tap.

• New Brand-new connect flow — tap the link, pick your Google account, done. Email and calendar connect together instantly
• Fixed Multi-account Google users no longer land on the wrong account when connecting
• Improved The connect page responds instantly — your first sync happens in the background

Signal, Not Noise

A smarter email brain that pings you for what matters and stays quiet for what doesn't.

• New Critical alerts break through — service suspensions, disconnection notices, and payment failures reach you even when they come from noreply senders
• New Donna learns from your feedback — reply to any ping and she adjusts what she surfaces for you going forward
• Improved Cold outreach and marketing blasts are detected and kept out of your pings
• Improved Quiet hours — no pings at night; anything important waits for you at 7:30 AM

Expense Tracking Arrives

Donna now reads your bank's transaction alerts and quietly builds your spending picture — no app, no spreadsheets.

• New Automatic expense capture from bank alert emails — HDFC, ICICI, Axis, SBI, and more
• New Swipe-reply to categorize — answer once and Donna auto-categorizes that merchant forever
• New Personal vs household tagging on every spend, plus daily, weekly, and monthly summaries on demand

Proactive Intelligence & Daily Briefings

Briefings and alerts that arrive before you ask.

• New Two daily briefings — a morning and evening digest of what matters in your inbox and calendar
• New Meeting prep — Donna cross-references your calendar with related emails so you walk in prepared
• New Smart alerts for time-sensitive emails, with a smarter classification brain behind them

Google Integration: Gmail & Calendar

Donna now connects to your Google account.

• New Gmail integration — Donna reads your inbox so she can tell you what needs attention
• New Calendar management — see your schedule and manage events from WhatsApp
• Improved Privacy policy updated to cover Google data — read exactly what Donna accesses and why

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