2. The email system of claim 1 wherein the annotation is an actionable item.
1. An email system comprising: one or more processing devices and one or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to: receive email; parse email content to determine whether a received email has an associated annotation; responsive to determining that a received email has an associated annotation, store the email and associated annotation in persistent storage; receive a request to access email for a specific recipient; select visual representations, based on the parsed email content, for the emails having associated annotations; and display an email listing including at least one received email having an associated annotation, where the visual representation for the at least one received email is interactive, allowing a user to communicate a response using the visual representation, and the received email is displayed with its associated visual representation in-line with other email information on the email listing.