Email is SO 1.0 – and this is why we all suffer from email overload…

Let’s face, it – we abuse email into doing things it was never meant to do and this is why we face  over flooded mailboxes with no clear view on the things that matter the most.

Today’s email clients were designed for yesterday’s email. Originally, email was merely a communication medium. Today, we engage in a variety of complex behaviors using email, such as project management, collaboration, meeting scheduling, to-do tracking, etc.

There have been no thrilling innovations in email. GMail, Outlook 2007 both offer enhanced searching capabilities but the problem remains… and this is the reason why:

email clients think about “messages” – our minds think about “context”.

Context is the logical meaning which spans and transcends a specific email message or conversation thread. if i emailed someone requesting that they do something, the request or action item is the context, and this logical issue can span several email correspondence threads sometimes even across email accounts.

The next generation of mailing will have an ability to find the logical context and transform email clients to becoming context oriented and not message oriented.