Zoë is a combination of Google and the fundamental building block of the web: the hyperlink. First Google. [ . . ] But once again, the only UI manifestation of it is this humbly looking text field saying: “Do you need something?”.
I am late to get on the Zoë train, but I guess that has a lot to do with it’s hard-to-define nature. It’s like the 5 blind men and the elephant . . . to one, it’s an email server, to another it’s a search engine, to the third an email client . .. .
I wish I had some of my massive email archives from CNN or FizzyLab to dump into it . . . . but even the small amount of stuff I have on hand is enough to see what it can do.
If I was writing the brochure copy, how would I define Zoë?
It’s a web application that enables you to navigate, search, and explore your email with an easy to understand interface and a lot of parsing intelligence.
But seeing is believing: it’s so easy to set up and run (I got it running on OS X and FreeBSD in minutes), you ought to take a look.