Email Management

One of my resolutions for 2008 is to renew my online voice, which I completely lost mostly due to my book (after working 10 hours a day and then writing for an addition 3-4 - I had absolutely no want to share).

I'm going to start with a topic that is very important to me - Email Management.  I'm a heavy Outlook user and I'm always looking for tools/techniques I can use to be more efficient with my time, especially when it comes to managing entropy that comes from email (going from high entropy to low entropy is a passion of mine).

One that I use right now is called ClearContext.  It is quite helpful in many areas - especially with email categorization and organization.  It also has some rules/views that help determine emails that may be more important to me.

I've also evaluated an Outlook Add-in that supports the book "Getting Things Done" - however, this add-in didn't succeed - as it "helped" me organize my email in ways I didn't like.  It may work for you though.

Currently, I'm evaluating a new product called Xobni ("inbox" spelled backwards) - they have some neat offerings such as analytics and phone number extraction (which Outlook should have had years ago!!).  Check them out...

I'd really like to know what other people use - as there MUST be some better way of managing the 200+ emails I get a day.