Selected News & Reviews
How to Deal With “Bacn” Email Without Using Gmail’s Smart Labels -
March 11, 2011
Simon Mackie -
gigaom
"ClearContext Personal actually works
in a similar manner to Smart Labels, filing unimportant
emails, like social network notifications, newsletters,
e-commerce emails and other bacn into categorized
groups, taking it out of your inbox."
The trouble with office email - February 17, 2011
Geoff Nairn - Financial
Times
"For example, ClearContext offers a
plug-in for Microsoft Exchange that highlights important
email and automatically files unimportant email from
automated senders. In similar vein, Google recently
added a “priority intray” feature to Gmail that tries to
guess which emails are most important. "
Painlessly Organize Your Outlook Inbox, Auto-File Your
Bacn - November 30, 2010
Dave Johnson -
bnet
"If your inbox is filled with an
undifferentiated pile of important, unimportant,
high-pri, and low-pri mail, then you need some help.
Here’s a tool that can help you take back control of
your inbox, automatically, without setting up lots of
rules or filters. The amazing thing? It actually works."
ClearContext Personal Makes Outlook More Productive - November 16, 2010
Simon Mackie -
WebWorkerDaily
"[ClearContext Personal]
automatically files unimportant emails, like social
network notifications, newsletters, e-commerce emails,
and other automated “bacn”, into categorized groups,
taking it out of your inbox. It’s all done completely
automatically, with no need to set up complex inbox
rules. "
Product Spotlight: Clear Context organizer for Outlook - October 13, 2009
Derek Schauland - Tech Republic
"Anyone in your organization who manages a lot of messages will find that Clear Context can be a great help in organizing their information and helping them work more effectively with Outlook. It has certainly been a great help in my inbox."
ClearContext, Microsoft, Nordic River, Xerox, and Xobni win Basex Excellence Awards for Information Overload Innovations - August 12, 2009
Basex
"'These companies and offerings exemplify the types of products breaking new ground in the fight against Information Overload,' said Jonathan B. Spira, Basex' CEO and Chief Analyst, who will present the awards."
Six Tools to Help Tackle Overflowing Email - January 16, 2009
Robert Scoble -
FastCompany
"If I were going to recommend only one tool, ClearContext ... offers the most immediate productivity gains.
... ClearContext removes that dread we feel when we open our inbox."
Technology Tools: E-mail's Little Helpers -
August, 2008
Ryan Underwood -
Inc. Magazine
"Best For Organizing Outlook Chaos:
ClearContext"
Clive
Thompson on How Email Bots Can Deal With Your
Overstuffed Inbox -
June 23, 2008
Clive Thompson -
Wired
"It also endows you with superpowered
sorting. If a work-related thread goes off the rails —
like when colleagues hijack a project discussion to
argue about Lost — you can zap it. From that point on,
new messages in the thread are filtered out and deleted
automatically."
ClearContext's Stab at Making Email
More Manageable -
May 19, 2008
Mark Hendrickson -
TechCrunch
"ClearContext Personal has a number
of tricks up its sleeve. First, it analyzes 30-40
characteristics of each message that hits your inbox to
determine its priority..."
Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami -
April 20, 2008
Randall Stross -
New York Times
"When Mr. Arrington wrote a post about the persistent problem of e-mail overload and the opportunity for an entrepreneur to devise a solution, almost 200 comments were posted within two days. Some start-up companies were mentioned favorably, like ClearContext (sorts Outlook inbox messages by imputed importance)..."
Email's Friendly Fire -
November 27, 2007
Rebecca Buckman -
Wall Street Journal
"ClearContext... uses algorithms to quickly analyze a user's email to determine which contacts and messages are the most important."
Customer Testimonials
GZ - Registered User
"...I cannot live without it."
Omar Shahine - Microsoft Hotmail
MH - IT Services
"If you use Outlook... do yourself a huge favor and download this tool."
Shawn Morrissey - Microsoft Windows
..an excellent add-in for Microsoft Outlook...
