Effort management email system

An email system for managing email system users' effort, comprising:

• a processor, a memory, a database comprising a supplementary email dataset, wherein the supplementary email dataset comprises information on the amount of time any recipient of any given email must spend in dealing with the email, wherein the amount of time comprises predetermined ranges of periods of time;
• and
• a calculation module configured for processing the supplementary email dataset and compiling user interface email displays for senders of emails based on the supplementary email dataset, wherein the calculation module comprises:
• an expected response module structured and arranged for processing the supplementary email dataset, and compiling user interface email displays for senders of emails based on the supplementary email dataset;
• a streamlining module structured and arranged for organizing information on the incoming emails of individual recipients, and compiling user interface displays for the individual recipients based on the information on the incoming emails;
• an alert module structured and arranged for storing a predetermined alert threshold value of the total estimated time required for each recipient to deal with every incoming email message not yet dealt with by the recipient, analyzing incoming emails of each recipient to determine a current value of the total estimated time required for the recipient to deal with every incoming email message not yet dealt with, comparing the alert threshold value with the current value, and generating an alarm when the current value exceeds the alert threshold value;
• and
• an effort management module structured and arranged for recording, compiling and analyzing information on emails of any and all of the senders and any and all of the recipients, wherein the streamlining module is further configured for determining an overall status of an incoming email queue of the recipient, the determination is based on predetermined criteria applied to the information on the incoming emails, and the determined overall status is one member of a predefined group of overall statuses for incoming email queues;
• and wherein the summary of the real-time email inbox dashboard further comprises a colored area representing the determined overall status, the color of the colored area is one member of a predefined group of colors, each of the colors corresponding to a respective overall status of the group of overall statuses, and the color displayed in the colored area is the color of the determined overall status.