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Microsoft Research has released an interesting tool for those of you who need to triage your email called SNARF.

SNARF stands for Social Network and Relationship Finder and is a free download from Microsoft. To quote their description:

“SNARF was built around the notion that social network information
that is already available to the computer system can be usefully
reflected to the user: a message from a manager might be seen
differently than a message from a stranger, for example. SNARF
applies this idea to email triage: handling the flow of messages
when time is short and mail is long.

The SNARF UI is designed to provide a quick overview of unread mail,
organized by its importance. The UI shows a series of different
panes with unread mail in them; each pane shows a list of authors of
messages. Clicking on a name shows all messages involving that
person.

SNARF gives the user the freedom to build their own ordering. Each
person in their inbox is assigned a set of meta-information: “number
of emails sent in the last month,” for example. These metrics can,
in turn, be combined to create an ordering across all contacts.”

http://research.microsoft.com/community/snarf/

SNARF was described as CEAS 2005, the paper is here:
http://www.ceas.cc/papers-2005/149.pdf

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