Microsoft Research has launched SNARF that extends Microsoft Outlook email notification and message organizing capabilities. SNARF sorts email messages in order of ‘social’ importance.The tool runs simultaneously next to an e-mail client and allows a user to look at unread e-mail in three views: Unread To/CC Me, Unread Mail, and Unread Lists. The default sort mechanism ranks e-mail messages in those categories based on how many times a user e-mails an address or person on the list.
SNARF can help you find the right ordering of email messages for maximum productivity. 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. Each person or list has a count of messages associated with them and a a blue bar under indicates the magnitude (on a log scale, and relative to the other people in the same pane) of the number of messages for that person.
The software requires Microsoft Outlook 2002 or 2003 as a MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) source, but also has been tested with Exchange and MAPI servers, Hotmail, and e-mail clients using POP (Post Office Protocol), IMAP, and the OL Connector (for Lotus Notes).
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