The iDoneThis alternative that still answers email
iDoneThis stopped operating: since August 2026 its site redirects to another product, and the daily digest people ran their teams on no longer arrives. Donelane does the same job, the same way — a short line about what you finished, a shared feed, and a morning email you can reply to in order to post.
What you were using, and what replaces it
- Reply to the daily email to post
- The same, and it is the part we care most about. Donelane emails a digest each morning; anyone can reply in plain text and the reply becomes their done. No app to open, no login on a phone.
- A shared team feed
- The same. Everyone's dones for the day in one place, tagged and timestamped, readable without a meeting.
- Browse what happened on a given day
- The same. A calendar you can page back through, per person or per team, which is what makes a written record worth keeping.
- Goals you intend to finish
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A line beginning with
[ ]is a goal instead of a done. It waits under Open goals until you post it as finished. - Your existing history
- This one is honest bad news: there is no importer, because there is no longer an iDoneThis API to import from. If you exported your data while the service was running, keep that file — tell us what is in it and we will say plainly whether we can load it.
What is different
Donelane is smaller. There is no integrations directory, no dashboard of productivity charts, and no manager view that scores anybody. A daily note stops being honest the moment it is graded, so features that would turn one into a performance metric are ones we keep saying no to.
It is also email-first rather than chat-first. If your team already lives in Slack all day, a Slack bot will suit you better — see below.
The other options, honestly
Donelane is not the only replacement, and it is not the right one for every team. The main alternatives worth knowing about:
- Geekbot — asks standup questions inside Slack on a schedule. The natural choice if Slack is where your team actually is.
- DailyBot — similar idea across Slack, Teams and Discord, with more reporting and automation.
- Standuply — heavier and process-oriented, aimed at teams that want agile ceremonies run for them.
- A shared document — genuinely fine for a team of three or four. Tooling only starts paying for itself when remembering to write the update is the hard part.
What none of those do is let someone post by replying to an email they were already going to read. If that mechanic is the thing you miss about iDoneThis, it is the thing Donelane rebuilt first.
Trying it
A first team of three is free, with no card required, so you can move a team over and see whether the habit survives the switch before paying for anything.