Automated email activity management

A system for organizing email, comprising:

• a modeler operable to infer a temporal sequential process from a corpus of unlabeled email messages,
• wherein said temporal sequential process comprises a finite state machine;
• a categorizer operable to accept an incoming message and map said incoming message to a transition in said temporal sequential process;
• a first visualizer operable to display a representation of said temporal sequential process,
• wherein said visualizer is operable to display a representation of a progression through said temporal sequential process, said progression comprising a change in said temporal sequential process;
• a predictor operable to predict a future message based on a progression through said temporal sequential process;
• and
• a second visualizer operable to display a representation of said future message,
• wherein said modeler performs:
• extracting a selected characteristic from each message;
• creating at least one group containing at least one message which exhibits said selected characteristics;
• and
• adding an ungrouped message into a group selected from said at least one group based on the temporal proximity of said ungrouped message and messages within said at least one group.