Collection · 5 articles
Do-anything agent and search.
Point takes requests the way you'd say them out loud: file this, find the thread where the renewal came up, tell me what the invoice total was. The pieces here cover both halves of that. On the asking side, how to phrase a request in one ordinary sentence, what changes when you speak it instead of typing it, and where doing the thing by hand is still faster. On the finding side, searching by what you do remember once the exact words are gone, getting a figure out of a forty-page attachment, and the single box Command-K opens over mail, tasks, calendar and files at once. Each one also marks the point where its method stops working. Take whichever matches what you're stuck on.
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Say what you want done, in one ordinary sentence
What a plain-language request is, how to phrase one that lands, where the doing stops on its own, and when pointing at the thing is still faster.
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Find an email when you can't remember the words
What to type when the words are the part you forgot: the three cues you do remember, five worked examples, and where exact terms still win.
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Ask a question, get the answer out of the attachment
The figure you need is inside a forty-page attachment. What to ask, which files answer, where it fails, and when to open the document yourself.
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One box that searches mail, tasks, calendar and files
Command-K opens a single search box over everything Point holds. What comes back, how to read a list with four kinds of thing in it, and where it stops.
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Talk to your inbox when your hands are full
Hold the mic and say it out loud. What comes back when you speak instead of type, how to word it for the ear, and where voice is the wrong tool.