DatsGuide
You get a page, the people on it, ways to talk, a place for your files and an agent. DatsGuide is how to do each of those. For what DatsPro is, read About.
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You are about to make a DatsPro account. This walks you through it end to end, and tells you the one thing people most often get wrong afterwards: the name you use to log in is not your email.
Worth understanding first
- Who can see whatEvery piece of your DatsPro page carries its own setting for who can see it — anyone, your connections, or only you — and where two settings disagree, the narrower one wins.
- Your content is in your own databaseEverything you write on DatsPro lives in a database file that belongs to your account alone, not in one large table shared with every other member.
- Your address never changesYou choose your DatsPro address when you join, and it never changes afterwards, so any link to your page keeps working for as long as the page exists.
- Why connections stop at 150DatsPro caps your connections at 150 on purpose — it is a statement about what the product is for, not a technical limit or a paid tier you can raise.
- Points and creditsDatsPro has two separate balances — social points, which you earn, and credits, which pay for the features that cost real money to run.
Your page
- Work PortfolioWork Portfolio is the public showcase of your page — work samples made up of photos, videos, audio and documents, one for each piece of work you want to show.
- Your profileYour profile is the top of your page — your picture, your name, your Headline and your Summary.
- The sections of your pageYour page is built from stacked sections — My Thoughts, My Work Tools, Professional Connections, My Go-To Websites, Work Portfolio, Private Folders — and each one decides separately who can see it.
- My Go-To WebsitesMy Go-To Websites is a row of shortcut tiles on your page, so the sites you rely on are one tap away, like favorites in a browser.
- DatsBlogDatsBlog is where you write articles and read them back. Your newest posts appear on your page under My Thoughts.
- Your page's lookYour page's theme — its colours, fonts, background pattern and layout — lives in one Settings panel. You can set the colours by hand from a palette, or answer a questionnaire and let Regenerate Theme with AI generate one from your answers.
- DatsFeedDatsFeed is what your connections and groups have been doing, with controls to decide how much of it you see.
- DatsPersonalityTypology tests — Enneagram, MBTI, Big Five, DISC and more — whose results are saved onto your page as items you can caption, tag and set the audience for.
Your people
- DatsConnectionDatsConnection is where your professional network lives — the connections you already have, the requests waiting on you, and suggestions of people you might know.
- GroupsA group is a shared space you join by its tags — and its name is built from the address of whoever made it plus those tags.
- Blocking someoneBlocking on DatsPro is not one switch on a person — it is two separate things: blocking a comment author, and blocking an email address.
Talking
- DatsChatDatsChat is your messages — a list of your connections, a thread with each of them, and a call button beside every name.
- DatsMailDatsMail is your own email address on DatsPro: you can write to anyone, anyone can write to you, and it has its own inbox, drafts, folders and attachments.
- Voice callsYou can call any connection straight from your chat list, and a call runs as a slim bar at the top so the rest of the app keeps working.
- NotificationsTwo different things share the word: the bell at the top of your page, which collects what happened while you were away, and whether your phone rings for an incoming call — which is set per device under My Devices.
Your stuff
- Private FoldersPrivate Folders are your own files on your own site — photos, videos, music, documents — and they are always private, with no setting that can change that.
- Storage & backupOne page shows how much space your site is using, and lets you save a backup of the whole thing — your files and everything you have written — to your own Google Drive.
- Devices & file accessConnect a device and your DatsPro folders show up in that device's own file picker — so any app on it can attach your files directly.
- DatsLibraryEvery photo, video and piece of music you have put in your folders, gathered on one timeline by the day you added it, with a player that remembers where you stopped.
Your agent
- DatsAgentDatsAgent is an assistant that can act on your own site — change your Summary and theme, send a chat or an email, and tell you which devices you are signed in on.
Your account
- Points, credits & billingDatsPro has two separate currencies: credits, which you spend on AI and services and which are what most things cost, and social points, which you earn by being connected to people.
- Visibility & privacyVisibility controls decide who can see each thing on your DatsPro page — anyone, your connections, or only you.
- My devicesOne page for everything about the machines you use DatsPro on — signing others out, fixing a stuck app, and building a complete archive of your data.
- Third-party app accessOne list of every outside app you have connected, what each one may do on your behalf, and a way to take any of it back.
- DatsGuideDatsGuide is this — the built-in guide to DatsPro, readable without an account, and the same words your AI agent answers from.
Every task, in one list
- Send a message to someone on DatsPro — DatsMail
- Reply to a message — DatsMail
- Find a message you remember but cannot see — DatsMail
- Keep a message where you can find it again — DatsMail
- Send one person's mail straight to its own folder — DatsMail
- Save a file to a folder by email — DatsMail
- Choose who can see one section of your page — Visibility & privacy
- Preview your page as other people see it — Visibility & privacy
- Add a shortcut to a website you visit often — My Go-To Websites
- Add a work sample to your Work Portfolio — Work Portfolio
- Put a photo into one of your work samples — Work Portfolio
- Keep a shortcut to your Work Portfolio on your computer — Work Portfolio
- Write the Summary that shows on your page — Your profile
- Change who can see one section of your page — The sections of your page
- Fold away a section you are not using — The sections of your page
- See and set all your sections' visibility in one place — The sections of your page
- Read one of your articles and send someone the link — DatsBlog
- Read a personality result you have already saved — DatsPersonality
- Caption a result, tag it, and choose who can see it — DatsPersonality
- Change the faint pattern behind your page — Your page's look
- Send someone a connection request — DatsConnection
- Accept someone who has asked to connect with you — DatsConnection
- Take back a request you sent — DatsConnection
- Take someone off your active connections list — DatsConnection
- Find a group and join it — Groups
- Leave a group — Groups
- Find out what the agent can actually do for you — DatsAgent
- WhatsDat button: find out what is in a picture — DatsAgent
- Send a message to a connection — DatsChat
- Make chat text bigger — DatsChat
- Call one of your connections — Voice calls
- Answer a call — or turn it down without being rude — Voice calls
- Turn call notifications on or off for this device — Notifications
- See what you missed, and clear it — Notifications
- Open one of your folders and see what is in it — Private Folders
- Put a new file in, or make a subfolder — Private Folders
- Keep a shortcut to your folders on your computer — Private Folders
- Find a video or photo from a particular day — DatsLibrary
- Carry on with a video or a track you stopped part-way — DatsLibrary
- Add a photo, video or song from your library — DatsLibrary
- See how much space your site takes up — Storage & backup
- Find out what used up your credits — Points, credits & billing
- Pay for a connection's membership — Points, credits & billing
- Accept a membership a connection is giving you — Points, credits & billing
- Get a copy of everything DatsPro holds about you — My devices
- Sign out a device you are not holding — My devices
- Make your DatsPro files available in this device's file picker — Devices & file access
- Check what an outside app is allowed to do on your behalf — Third-party app access
- Stop your feed showing you everything — DatsFeed
- Open the guide — DatsGuide
- Ask the question instead of looking it up — DatsGuide