How it works

A method, not a pile of features.

Point runs on a productivity discipline that's about a hundred years old and has never needed changing. Six things, ranked, worked one at a time, with the rest carried forward. What's new is applying it where the work actually arrives.

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The method

It's called the Ivy Lee method, after the consultant who set it down for a steel company early last century. It fits on a postcard. That's most of why it has lasted.

01

Write tomorrow down tonight

At the end of the day, you list no more than six things. Six is the constraint that does the work. You choose while the day is still fresh in your head.
02

Rank them by what matters

True importance, decided once, in the quiet, by the person who knows the job. The order comes from that, not from who asked loudest.
03

Start at the top and finish

You work the first one until it's done, then you start the second. The order is the whole point, and skipping around undoes it.
04

Roll the rest forward

Whatever's unfinished moves to tomorrow's list. Nothing is lost, and nothing sits there competing for attention it won't get.

Why it breaks on email

Every step assumes you already know what the six things are. On a normal working day they're scattered through a hundred messages, most of which ask nothing of you at all. The ask sits in paragraph four. The date came up once. Before you can rank anything, you have to read everything. By then the morning is gone.

Mail also arrives in the order it was sent. The order it should be dealt with is a different one. So the ranking gets redone from scratch every day, by the one person whose time the method was meant to protect. See how email triage works for where that breaks down and why.

The same four steps, on your inbox

The list writes itself

You wrote nothing down

Point reads the day's mail and pulls out whatever actually asks something of you. A sign-off owed by Wednesday becomes a dated task, still linked to the message it came from. All of it before you've opened anything.

Nothing falls through the cracks

Ranked before you sit down

Now, later, other

Overnight mail is already sorted into three. Your morning starts from a list rather than from scratch. The ranking comes from your own patterns, not from how urgently the sender wrote.

Only what needs you, at the top

One thing at a time

The gist, before you open anything

Every thread is one short line. Four paragraphs collapse into the decision they're actually asking for. The original is one click away when the thread deserves it. You stop re-reading to remember where you were.

How summaries work

Nothing rolls off the end

You ask once

Tell Point what to wait for, in plain words, and then forget it. A thread that went quiet comes back when it should. None of it depends on you remembering to flag it.

Every open loop, tracked

You set how far Point goes

How much should software do on its own? That's a dial you set, and every kind of action has its own. Out of the box there's one default, and it's the cautious one. Everything waits for your review.

Human

Point stays out of it. The task is yours and it stays yours.

Review

Point prepares, you approve. Everything sits here the day you start, until you decide otherwise.

Autonomous

Point acts on its own, for the kinds of task you've handed over and no others.

Each kind of task gets its own dial to set

Filing can be autonomous while anything that speaks to a client stays on review. Two dials, side by side, set the way you want them.

Everything Point does is written down

Filed away already, marked auto, with undo one click away. The reply sits beside it, still waiting for you.

The dial turns back just as easily

Nothing is permanent but your say-so. The record shows what happened, so you can check rather than take anyone's word for it.

All of it runs on the Gmail or Microsoft 365 you already have. You keep your address, your history and your contacts. There's nothing to migrate and nothing to tell your clients. See everything Point does, or whether Point is built for your firm.

Six things, ranked, before you sit down

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What you're joining

It runs on the mail you have

Point sits on top of Gmail or Outlook. Your address, your history and your contacts stay exactly as they are, so there is nothing to migrate.

You set how much Point does

Out of the box everything waits for your review, replies included. You hand over only what you trust, one kind of work at a time.