Direct Pointing
Direct Pointing is Pointing that lands a placement. When a digit's candidates in a 3×3 box all sit on one row or column, you can already scrub it from the rest of that line — that's the Pointing half. But if that scrub leaves another box on the same line with only one cell left for the digit, you place it right there instead of circling back.
What is Direct Pointing?
Regular Pointing does the elimination and moves on. Direct Pointing doesn't move on — it looks at the other boxes on the same row or column and checks whether one of them now has a single candidate left for the digit. If it does, that's the placement. You get the Pointing cleanup and the Hidden Single placement in one pass, instead of finding them separately.
How to spot it
Find a Pointing deduction first: inside one box, all remaining positions for a digit lie on one row or column. Apply its outside-the-box line eliminations, then check every affected sector. If the digit now has only one position in a row, column, or box, that position is the direct placement. Pencilmarks are a convenient record, not a logical prerequisite.
The logic
The source box must contain the digit, and all its candidates sit on one row or column — so the digit has to be in that box on that line. That rules it out of the rest of the row or column. Now any other box on that line has lost some candidates for the digit. If one of those boxes is down to a single candidate, that cell has to be the digit, because there's nowhere else in that box it could go.