Sunday, October 19, 2014

Email Clustering in Eπvelope

I’ve created an app that uses clustering techniques to group emails. This is not broad groupings like Social, Updates,… that Gmail does but at a more granular level (basically message threading).

Instead of just threading emails by a Conversation or by an exact Subject match that most emails clients (incl Gmail) do, the app looks for ‘similar’ / ‘related’ emails and groups (threads) them together. 

It uses various attributes on emails such as keywords, sender, time,… and finds clusters. A message may be part of two different clusters or could change cluster membership depending on a better match found. 

This has the effect of compacting the Inbox for viewing. Also, clusters can be acted upon as a single entity letting you move, delete, archive entire clusters. 

All of this clustering logic happens on the device, there is no server component. 

Clustering pagebit.ly/envelope-clustering

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