Getting Started

This gets you from a blank workspace to something genuinely useful in a few minutes.

1. Connect your calendar

Go to Settings → Calendars and subscribe your calendar using its iCal link (every major calendar provider — Google, Outlook, Apple — can generate one). See Calendar & Scheduling for where to find that link.

Mark the calendar as work or personal — personal events still block time on your schedule, but they're kept visually distinct and don't count toward work analytics.

2. Set your working hours

Still in Settings → Calendars, set your workday start/end time and your daily hard cap (the most hours you want scheduled in a single day). Duka uses this to stop you from over-scheduling yourself — see Calendar & Scheduling for the details.

3. Create your first task

From Home or Tasks, hit New Task. Give it a title, optionally a date/time and duration, and save. It'll show up on your Home dashboard and on the Calendar timeline automatically.

4. Add a person or two

If you track relationships — customers, candidates, investors — visit People and add a record. You can also install the browser extension to save LinkedIn profiles directly into Duka while you browse.

5. Say hello to Oracle

Click the Oracle icon (or press Cmd+K) and ask it something about your workspace — "What's on my calendar tomorrow?" or "Summarize my last meeting with Acme Corp." See Oracle Assistant.

Next: Core Concepts explains the handful of ideas (workspace, tags, visibility) that show up everywhere in the product.