Dealing with email is a problem that will never go away, but some folks out there are trying to ease the pain. Enter Xobni.
Xobni is an Outlook plug-in that’s been generating some buzz lately due to its powerful, time-saving feature set. This little sidebar has some great functionality that makes dealing with a large volume of email much easier.
- Search – Xobni fully indexes all of your emails, allowing you to see search results as you type in criteria. Much faster than Outlook’s search.
- Conversations – Instantly see all of the back-and-forth emails with a particular contact on the same subject. No more hunting for “that one email”.
- Attachments – Instantly see any file ever sent to you from a particular contact. Again, no hunting.
- Easy meeting scheduling – One click creates an email with your meeting availability to send to a contact.
- Linked In Support – Linked In information is automatically collected for your contacts.
- Analytics – See detailed information about your email volume.
Xobni is still in beta, but it’s a stable release now and the developers are keen to keep improving it, so expect more features to show up in the future.
The company recently declined a $20 million offer for purchase from Microsoft, so for now, it’s staying an add-on. Word on the street is Xobni-like functionality is already creeping into the next release of Outlook.
To install Xobni, click here and follow the simple instructions.
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2 comments:
By the holy light of Ganesha Moses Von Awesomebottom, Will Tucker Fizzle-Pops!
I LOVE this plug-in! It thinks like I think and saves me a ton of time when searching for attachments or just contact info. I think I read somewhere that in the next couple of years professionals will spend up to 41% of their time trying to manage their emails - that's insane!
Thanks for posting about this Nick Burns!
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