{"id":114,"date":"2011-03-25T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=114"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:21:43","slug":"more-than-21-ways-to-visualize-and-explore-email-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"More than 21 ways to visualize and explore email inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FlowingData has <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2008\/03\/19\/21-ways-to-visualize-and-explore-your-email-inbox\/\">an old but nonetheless a nice post<\/a> of <strong>different possible visualizations of our email archives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We need to mention that most of such tools do not allow users to manage their email. <strong>The<br \/>\n purpose of such visualizations is primarily the reflection on ones&#8217;<br \/>\nemail usage, understanding the changes, and sometimes easier retrieval<\/strong>. FlowingData has all the<br \/>\nsceenshots and short descriptions available. But <strong>we are adding additional<br \/>\ntools which are not mentioned in their post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More about the below listed tools (together with academic papers) can be found on the <a href=\"\/pim\/pimtools.html\">list of PIM prototypes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>FlowingData has <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2008\/03\/19\/21-ways-to-visualize-and-explore-your-email-inbox\/\">an old but nonetheless a nice post<\/a> of <strong>different possible visualizations of our email archives<\/strong>. The<strong> tools<\/strong> they mention are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exploratory <\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Mountain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Enron<\/li>\n<li>The Mail<\/li>\n<li>Contrasting Portraits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Analytic<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Rhythms of Relationship<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic coordinated email<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Mapping<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Small World email network<\/li>\n<li>Spam map<\/li>\n<li>ForwardTrack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Metaphor<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Mail Garden<\/li>\n<li>Animails<\/li>\n<li>SpamPlants<\/li>\n<li>3D mailbox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Networks<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>My Map<\/li>\n<li>Buddy Graph<\/li>\n<li>Thread Arch<\/li>\n<li>Making connections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Abstract<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Spam Recycle<\/li>\n<li>SpamPaint<\/li>\n<li>Texone Spam<\/li>\n<li>Spam Architecture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We need to mention that most of the above tools do not allow users to manage their email. <strong>The<br \/>\n purpose of such visualizations is primarily the reflection on ones&#8217;<br \/>\nemail usage, understanding the changes, and sometimes easier retrieval<\/strong>.<br \/>\nWe will not talk about above mentioned tools as FlowingData has all the<br \/>\nsceenshots and short descriptions available. <strong>We will add additional<br \/>\ntools which are not mentioned above. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In aphabetical order:<\/p>\n<p><strong>ContactMap:<\/strong><br \/>\nA tool for spatially managing contacts and accessing email though them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool47-contactmap.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>EmailViz<\/strong> (Treemaps, Correspondent Crowds and Author Lines): Three<br \/>\nvisualizations revealing hierarchical, correlational and temporal<br \/>\npatterns in email<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool105_emailviz.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>EzMail:<\/strong> An email conversation visualizer through threads and email properties aiming at easing management.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool100-ezmail.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Magnet mail:<\/strong> A magnet metaphor for retrieving email <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool96-magnetmail.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MailStacker<\/strong><br \/>\nMail client with piles representation of emails<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool85-mailstacker.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mona<\/strong><br \/>\nAn email client showing threads of messages in a graph and a conversational context with it (probably te first threading visualization) <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool1-mona.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Personal map<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A tool for visualizing social network based on email history and trying<br \/>\nto understand groups of people as users grop them in their minds.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool95-personalmap.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>remail<\/strong><br \/>\nEmail client focused on marking, email context and selective display (this one uses Thread Arcs presented in FlowingData, but the tool has to offer a lot more)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool55-remail.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>TaskView<\/strong><br \/>\nA task centric matrix based email client<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool53-taskview.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" title=\"More info\">Threadmap<\/a><br \/>\nA treemap approach to show email discussions and highlighting positions, etc.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool103-threadmap.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>TimeStore<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo dimensional time\/sender matrix interface to email<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool54-timestore.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Visualizing electronic mail<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganization of email in a hierarchy by domain name, organization or sender&#8217;s names<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool108-vem.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Zest<\/strong><br \/>\nConversation overview of a discussion thread.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" src=\"\/pim\/images\/tool102-zest.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlowingData has an old but nonetheless a nice post of different possible visualizations of our email archives. We need to mention that most of such tools do not allow users to manage their email. The purpose of such visualizations is primarily the reflection on ones&#8217; email usage, understanding the changes, and sometimes easier retrieval. 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