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Large email discussions can become hairy. It can be difficult to follow the conversation. All messages about one subject are combined called a "thread", and it can have many people who wrote in it. There may even be sub-discussions about a very specific sub-topic forming. When you come into a thread, or come back to it, you ideally want to have an overview and see the discussion structure. This is what "threading" is about.

~~Threading~~ is hard. Many mail apps don't show threads at all, some are showing only flat threads. But you want to see '''who responded to who.'''

== Comparative studies ==

[[ReviewThreading|Comparative Studies]]

After our comparative studies of the most comune apps used by most users we realized that hreading is hard. Many mail apps don't show threads at all, some are showing only flat threads. But you want to see '''who responded to who.'''

When you read a long email discussion, it can be difficult to navigate. But usually, your main needs are:

* Seeing which emails you have not read yet, and what sub-topic (sub-thread) they are talking about.

* You might want to look for a specific email in the long thread, for example, the decision that was eventually taken, or emails from a certain person. ~~See the rest of the problems with the current apps here: [[ReviewThreading]]~~

* You might want to look for a specific email in the long thread, for example, the decision that was eventually taken, or emails from a certain person.

== Our solution ==