About Donelane
Donelane records what a team actually got done, one short line at a time. No tickets to groom, no percentages to update — just what you finished, in your own words, where the rest of the team can see it.
Why it exists
Most status tooling asks you to describe your work twice: once by doing it, and again by reporting it. The second version is always a little out of date and a little more optimistic than the first. Donelane keeps only the part that was true — what was finished, and when — and gets out of the way.
How it works
Post a line when you finish something. It lands in a shared feed your teammates can read, and on a calendar you can browse by day. Each morning everyone gets a digest of yesterday — and you can reply straight to that email to post, so the whole loop runs from an inbox if you would rather never open the app.
A line starting with [ ]
becomes a goal instead: something you plan to do, waiting until you post it
as done.
What it will not become
Not a project manager, not a time tracker, and not a place to measure people against each other. A tool that turns a daily note into a performance metric stops getting honest notes very quickly, so features that would enable that are ones we intend to keep saying no to.
Who builds it
Donelane is built and run by Xivi, a small studio that ships its own software rather than taking client work. The people who decide what goes in are the people who write it and answer for it afterwards.
Questions, or something broken? Get in touch — it reaches the people who made it.