Here is one Tuesday for Jo, a freelance marketer with four clients. The work is the same as ever. What changes is how much of it Jo has to hold in their head.
Three clients wrote after hours. Their emails have been read and matched to the work they are about. One number at the top says three things are waiting to be looked at.
A deadline moved, a step was added, and one new job arrived. Each shows the email it came from. Jo approves all three before the coffee is finished.
Fathom records the call. Forty-five minutes of "and one more thing" that used to fill two pages of a notebook.
Five suggestions are waiting. Two of them add to work that started last month, which Jo would have had to find by hand. One is a rule: this client wants every draft sent to their deputy as well. From now on, that is a step on every card for them.
A client asks for an update. Jo picks the client and the last two weeks, and a written report comes back from the work on the board. Jo reads it, changes one line and sends it.
The printer has had the proofs for a week. nicefig drafts a short, friendly chaser in Jo's own style. Jo sends it from their own email.
Everything said today is somewhere it will be found. Jo closes the laptop and does not lie awake wondering what was missed.
The board stays quiet unless something needs you.
There are no streaks, points or productivity charts.
Everything waiting for you is counted in one place.
A card that has sat for a while is left as it is.
You say it once, and nicefig keeps it.
nicefig gets better the more it holds. Three weeks in, it is useful. Three months in, it knows your clients almost as well as you do.
A board with history gives every new email and call more to match against.
The facts and rules it has kept go into everything it writes next.
Ask about a decision from the spring and it finds the call it was made in.
Going on holiday? Add a colleague to the board. The whole story of every card is already there.
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