Inbox triage with SNARF
My latest favourite thing: SNARF from Microsoft. I was as surprised as anyone to find out that Microsoft Research had released something this useful for free… remarkably it actually works.
It scans all your Outlook mail folders (including ones which aren’t stored on an Exchange server) and attempts to work out what relationship you have with each individual (you can define many of the parameters yourself).
It then ranks your incoming email using these relationships. You notice some weird things: the guy at the top of my relationship list has exchanged 142 emails with me in the last week… number two has exchanged 100, while number 10 just 19 emails. Then there’s a long tail of people who I’ve never replied to! I’ve actually found it very useful so far. Took 10 mins to initially index the 25,000+ email sin my various folders, and now updates as mails come in.
Two other notable features – the ‘mailing list’ view allows you to see any emails relating to a mailing list address in a single window, like a discussion board, and the ‘threaded view’ shows a threaded, expandable conversation view (like Gmail I guess, sigh).
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