14 DAY TRIAL // 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.