SNARF, Microsoft's Social Network and Relationship Finder

It's SNARF! No, not the useless Thundercat sidekick, but Microsoft's Social Network and Relationship Finder.

SNARF is an add-on to e-mail programs that sorts your e-mails according to its importance and not necessarily its arrival time. E-mail triage can be a hassle, especially when you receive hundreds of e-mails a day, SNARF can handle, prioritize and focus the materials you need to be looking at.

A.J. Brush, a researcher in the community technologies group at Microsoft Research says that "One of the core SNARF notions is that it's about people� We're really trying to remember information about the people in e-mail rather than on a per-message basis. SNARF will know [for example] that it's a message from Julie, I talk to her all the time, so it will put that [message] higher in order of importance."

Since there is no 'best' way to sort/order email messages to produce an optimal outcome, SNARF gives the user the freedom to build their own ordering.

Brush says 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.
Try SNARF out today.