How many times have you found yourself searching through old emails trying to find to find some information, a phone number or even an attachment? A lot of us try to occasionally go through our inboxes to organize them through deleting unnecessary emails and sorting through others.
Well now there is an Outlook plug-in that let’s you organize your inbox. It’s called Xobni, or inbox spelled backwards. It was released a couple of weeks ago and is available as a free download. Just go to www.xobni.com.
Xobni does not appear to interfere with your Outlook it that it runs outside of it. It indexes and analyzes all of your messages. The program creates a profile for everyone you communicate with in a sidebar.
Before we go on, one of the main flaws that I note is that Xobni loses track of an email once you delete it. There is also a feature on there that gives each person a ranking depending on how much you email each other and the usefulness of this is somewhat questionable.
Now, to the good features. On the top of the sidebar, there are relationship statistics. One of the best features is that Xobni extracts phone numbers from emails, whether it be in the body of the message or the signature. When you hover over the number, you will see where it was extracted from.
The next section on the sidebar is a list of related people between the email sender and yourself. Need the name of an assistant? Each profile lists the people who are often copied in emails that are sent to you.
One of the things that I really liked is that you can open an email thread and if you want to reply or forward, you do not have to navigate away from that conversation.
Need to find an attachment? Xobni lists all of the files that you have exchanged with each other.
It also appears to have a decent search mechanism that allows you to search for people and information.
To see a video of Xobni - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amRkMds177A
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