email overload

The Outlook add-in for fighting information overload, ClearContext, has just been upgraded to a new version, v5.1, a release that comes with several new features for inbox management. In the latest version, the ClearContext Dashboard has now been replaced with a sidebar that sits inside the inbox…

Nubli is a new plugin for Microsoft Outlook which just launched at the recent DEMOfall 09 conference held in San Diego last week. According to the company, the plugin uses machine learning to rank inbox conversations by priority. To do so, the software looks at your past email behavior to determine…

ClearContext, the Outlook plugin that helps you better organize and control your inbox, has released a new online service called ClearContext Online. With this new offering, now currently in beta, users of both the free Personal and paid ProfessionalClearContext for Outlook products can access…

An internally used tool at Microsoft called the Microsoft Outlook Thread Compressor has by finally made available to the general public by its creator, Ewan Dalton. The Thread Compressor (or “TC” for short) is an add-in for Outlook 2000/XP/2003/2007 which removes unnecessary emails from your inbox.…

Do you get a lot of email? I’ll bet almost everyone out there said “yes.” If you’re drowning in information overload, you have to check out a new email management system that Angus Logan, Ian Palangio, and Johann Kruse have been developing. It’s called PIFEM, or Pay it Forward Email Management, and…

Recently, I wrote about an email overload solution that did not impress me, but here’s one that does: AwayFind. While it’s not necessarily the absolute be-all end-all solution to today’s information overload situation, it certainly has more usefulness than Attent’s virtual economy where emails are…