I have already read and referenced the perlmonks node you mention above. At this point all I know is above. I will definitely come back with more if I find out. I am surprised though at the seeming lack of activity of interest in this area.

Thanks.

I am surprised though at the seeming lack of activity of interest in this area

I'm highly interested from a professional standpoint, it's a fascinating problem with lots of cool graph-theory type implications and room for all sorts of whiz-bang algorithmic voodoo. It's great. But as far as email goes, I'm *already* super organized, so I don't need the app at all. This is part of the problem, I guess, because someone who gets to the level where they can appreciate something like this probably doesn't need it, or could otherwise write similar software. But again, the theory is highly fascinating, and I'd love it if more things worked as an intelligent (emphasis on intelligent) database rather than a hierarchial file cabinet.

I'm highly interested from a professional standpoint, it's a fascinating problem with lots of cool graph-theory type implications and room for all sorts of whiz-bang algorithmic voodoo.

Yes, it is. ;-) However...

But as far as email goes, I'm *already* super organized, so I don't need the app at all. This is part of the problem, I guess, because someone who gets to the level where they can appreciate something like this probably doesn't need it, or could otherwise write similar software.

I would offer a different take. Email is a particularly fascinating subject matter. It is a diary of our lives, professional, cultural, lord-only-knows even romantic. It is the conversation between ourselves and our colleagues. It is our banter, our very thought process.

Organizing it is a, not necessarily futile, but a perhaps detrimental process because it might prevent us from discovering hidden "patterns" and "linkages." Once again, I refer back to my "Netflix v. Blockbuster" analogy. Rarely do I know what I am looking for, but mostly I walk out with a smile because I discovered something next to something else. Of course, the downfall of a Blockbuster or a library is that the organization goes back to just one level -- alphabetical within subject.

Perhaps a better parallel would be like Alexa for my email... or, what was it called -- something called Firefly or whatever that used to exist (dunno if it still does), or the smartlists in iTunes. Finding patterns based on what I choose, pick, or click on.