With the average worker sending 40 emails per day — and receiving over 100 — it's no surprise that emails can play a key role in many cases worldwide. However, with the sheer number of emails in the average inbox, working through them can be a mammoth task.

When dealing with large amounts of emails, analytics tools are available to make a review more efficient. Here, we explore email threading in detail, look into the steps involved and how the tool helps a reviewer.

What is email threading?

Email threading involves collecting and presenting documents that make up the same email thread. The tool identifies email relationships, such as threads, the people involved in a discussion and attachments, grouping them so you can view them as one conversation.

The chronological arrangement of these individual messages allows reviewers to view discussions as one coherent conversation and analyse emails and attachments in sequential order.

Keeping emails in context and chronological order increases the chances of a more effective review. Understanding an email's importance or value can be easier once it's seen within the wider email thread.