Email Features We are providing new and innovative uses of threads, collections of messages, sources of information, and visualizations to help users cope with their email.

Calendaring Features We have found that email contains a great deal of time and date information. In response, we have added fast and simple methods to help people move information out of email directly into their calendars.

Chat Features We enable users to respond to email "on the fly." Recognizing that important information is often communicated through chat, we also allow people save their chats along with their email messages for archiving and retrieval.

Rather than merely displaying these applications inside the prototype, we closely integrate the features of these applications with other components. Due to the variety of user preferences, we made the prototype interface flexible, allowing users to show as few or as many of the components as they prefer. The main components are the In-box, Threads and Collections, Sources, Calendar, Chat, and Visualizations.