I've been running 1-on-1s for a while now. They're not hard to do, but they're easy to do badly.

The specific thing that bothered me was always the notes. I'd have last week's notes somewhere — a Notion page, a text file, a doc — and I'd be trying to reference them while also writing new ones and actually paying attention to the person in front of me. Three things at once, none of them done well.

The history matters. If someone told me three weeks ago they were stressed about a project, I want to know how that turned out. If we talked about a goal last month, did it happen? Without easy access to the past, every 1-on-1 risks feeling like it starts from zero.

I looked for something that handled this cleanly and didn't find it. The general tools are too generic. The meeting tools are too heavy or cloud-dependent. I wanted something simple — a list of questions I come back to every time, the previous answer visible while I write the new one, and notes that live on my machine as files I actually own.

So I built it. Touchpoint is that tool. One file per person, recurring questions, side-by-side history, local-first. Nothing more complicated than it needs to be.

If you run 1-on-1s and recognize the problem, give it a try.