E-mail inbox assistant to reduce context switching

A method for processing electronic messages, the method comprising:

• identifying, by one or more computer processors, one or more electronic messages;
• determining, by one or more computer processors, one or more e-mail characteristics respectively associated with the identified one or more electronic messages;
• determining, by one or more computer processors, an estimated electronic message processing duration for the identified one or more electronic messages based, at least in part, on weighting factors that are associated with the determined one or more e-mail characteristics;
• identifying, by one or more computer processors, a first unscheduled time slot within an electronic calendar of a user;
• scheduling, by one or more computer processors, the identified one or more electronic messages within the identified first unscheduled time slot of the electronic calendar of the user;
• creating, by one or more computer processors, an electronic message folder within an e-mail interface of the user, wherein the electronic message folder is associated with a time slot scheduled for processing one or more scheduled electronic messages;
• identifying, by one or more computer processors, a first electronic message that includes a first category flag from among the one or more identified electronic messages;
• adding, by one or more computer processors, the one or more scheduled electronic messages associated with the scheduled time slot to the electronic message folder, wherein adding the one or more scheduled electronic messages associated with the scheduled time slot to the electronic message folder further comprise:
• determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the first electronic message that includes the first category flag is scheduled within the scheduled time slot;
• and
• in response to determining that the first electronic message that includes the first category flag is scheduled within the scheduled time slot, excluding, by one or more computer processors, other electronic messages that include the first category flag from the scheduled time slot;
• assigning, by one or more computer processors, an indication to an electronic message folder that includes one or more scheduled electronic messages, wherein the indication assigned to the electronic message folder identifies the scheduled time slot of one or more electronic messages of the electronic message folder and is depicted in the e-mail interface of the user;
• in response to determining that the user receives an additional electronic message prior to processing at least one of the one or more scheduled electronic messages associated with the scheduled time slot, identifying, by one or more computer processors, a first unprocessed electronic message of the one or more scheduled electronic messages associated with the scheduled time slot, wherein the identified first unprocessed electronic message includes a category flag that is different than a respective category flag of the additional electronic message;
• and
• rescheduling, by one or more computer processors, the received additional electronic message and the first unprocessed electronic message to a second unscheduled time slot based on determination that the second unscheduled time slot does not also include electronic messages with respective category flags that match the received additional electronic message and the first unprocessed electronic message.