E-mail doesn't take a holiday

For those who dread coming back to an e-mail overflow, the solution is often to take time off from leisure to weed the in-box.
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Post-vacation triage

One of my biggest frustrations with email has always been efficiently and promptly dealing with the deluge of emails I'm faced with when I come back from vacation or a day of meetings out of the office. This inspired me to start a new company to tackle this and other problems high-volume business email users have. My company's product, ClearContext Inbox Manager for MS Outlook, automatically determines how important various emails are (using your email history and individual message characteristics) and prioritizes them accordingly in the inbox. Many users have had great success rapidly sorting through huge disorganized inboxes using our product. We feel like post-Christmas inbox cleaning is a perfect test for our application and hope some readers give it a try. If you'd like to take a look, you can download it from www.clearcontext.com (or download.com) and we'd love to hear your comments.

Deva Hazarika
CEO, ClearContext