Now, an online secy to manage your emails!
Can't manage your bulging inbox? Fret not. Scientists have developed an online secretary -- a a new planning tool which they claim would make it easier to spot urgent messages in a mass of emails. 
A team, led by Andrew Faulring of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has devised the Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning (Radar) system to help tame out-of-control inboxes, the 'New Scientist' reported.
According to the scientists, the system relies on human trainers to teach it what words might characterise the tasks involved in, for example, organising a conference, and how a worker might prioritise them.
It then scans a user's inbox and orders the emails by priority. The team tested radar using a group of volunteers who were asked to pick up the planning of a large conference with only a full inbox to guide them. Some emails contained critical tasks -- such as finding a new room for a scheduled speaker -- others were unimportant or even unhelpful.
Faulring found that volunteers given the tool significantly outperformed those left to sort through the emails unaided, and made fewer mistakes. The findings have been presented at the 'Intelligent User Interfaces' conference in Hong Kong recently.
