How it works

A method, not a pile of features.

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

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The method

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

01

Write tomorrow down tonight

At the end of the day, no more than six things. Six is the constraint that does the work, because it forces the choosing to happen while you still have the context.
02

Rank them by what matters

Not by what came in last, not by who asked most insistently. True importance, decided once, in the quiet, by the person who knows the job.
03

Start at the top and finish

Work the first one until it is done before touching the second. The order is the whole point, and skipping around undoes it.
04

Roll the rest forward

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

Why it breaks on email

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

Mail also arrives in the order it was sent, which has nothing to do with the order it should be dealt with. So the ranking has to be redone from scratch, every day, by the one person whose time the method was supposed 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, before you have opened anything.

Nothing falls through the cracks

Ranked before you sit down

Now, later, other

Overnight mail is already sorted into three, so the 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 a thing

Every thread is one short line. Four paragraphs collapse into the decision they are actually asking for, and 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, and none of it depends on you remembering to flag it.

Every open loop, tracked

You set how far it goes

How much should software do on its own? That is a dial you set, and every kind of action has its own. Out of the box there is one default, and it is 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. This is where everything sits the day you start, until you decide otherwise.

Autonomous

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

Set per kind of task, not once for everything

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, and you can prove what happened in the record rather than taking anyone's word for it.

Read more about what Point can and cannot do on its own.

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