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Six software packages, free or low cost to help you tackle your deluge of emails

Fast Co., Iss. 132, Feb. 2009 at 50, cites research on email volume that the “average worker receives 200 a day.” Regardless of your inflow, these six programs sound useful to some in-house lawyers.

The article praises ClearContext, a free Outlook add-on that scans your traffic and uses what it gleans to prioritize the incoming messages with color codes and other techniques. ActiveWords “lets you script common email answers.” That sounds like the ability to use a single key stroke to recall an oft-written message. Gist and Xobni roam around your contact information and, for example, showcase a phone number of someone you are writing. Gist searches news feeds and blogs for information about the person you are emailing.

The author of the article scoble@fastcompany.com recommends that you bypass email for some collaborative tasks. Instead use an online word-processing tool such as Google Docs or Adobe’s Buzzword.

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2 responses to “Six software packages, free or low cost to help you tackle your deluge of emails”

  1. Mark says:

    I think myDocs is something you definitely want to look at. It is a tool which is an add-in for Outlook, that lets us view SharePoint Document Libraries by clicking standard Outlook folders, and drag emails into these folders to upload into SharePoint.
    There is more information on this at http://www.nsynergy.com/Products/myDocs/Pages/About_myDocs.aspx or please email to info@nsynergy.com for more details.

  2. apple says:

    nSynergy have designed many
    systems using Microsoft SharePoint. They also have a version that is now online via Microsoft Online Services.They supplies collaborative software solutions for a great variety of clients in many different industries.I think it’s a practical tool.