The only problem with email is that it is difficult to sort through them or track down any important attachments.

Creo believes it has the solution in Six Degrees which can track down attachments and emails quickly by building relationships.
 
Six Degrees constructs a database of links between email addresses, messages and attachments during installation. It's a slow process, but this is the only time that Six Degrees leaves you waiting. It will take a couple of minutes of hard disk chugging before it's finished, but afterwards Six Degrees actively synchronises the database and takes virtually no time to call up the links.  In fact, it's unbelievably quick – everything comes up almost instantly. You can say goodbye to re-sorting your emails by sender and wading through to find the attachment you're after.

The interface is as basic as it gets: three buttons at the top show attachments, messages or people, along with a search bar. So, if you want to find a lost attachment from a specific person, just type the name in the search bar, right click on the contact result that appears, click Make Focus, and all the attachments and emails come up in the appropriate fields.

This is easy enough, but you can't help feeling that this could have been sped up. Why not automate the whole process so it displays all the attachments and emails instantly without having to click Make Focus?
This is certainly sensible if you have thousands of emails about a particular subject, or several people with the same name sending you emails. But it would still be better to have complete automation as an option, particularly as you can limit the results by refining them to cover only the last week, month, six months or year.
 
Another annoyance is that it only works with the 2000 and XP versions of Outlook and Windows. Also, if Outlook automatically moves messages to other folders (including Deleted Items), Six Degrees loses track of them.
 
But these complaints are only minor, and Six Degrees is otherwise a very impressive and useful tool. The potential for boosting productivity is enormous, and not having to trawl through your emails and sit through Outlook's painful search process is nothing short of a godsend.