{"id":399,"date":"2009-01-19T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outlookutilities.com\/content\/?p=399"},"modified":"2010-04-30T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T13:51:28","slug":"xobni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outlookutilities.com\/content\/2009\/01\/19\/xobni\/","title":{"rendered":"Xobni, Outlook addin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments.<\/p>\n<p>After a quick install, you&#8217;ll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook &#8211; and suddenly information will become much easier to find. When a new email arrives, the sender&#8217;s full communication history appears in the Xobni sidebar, including past conversations, attachments and contact details. Xobni also includes a blazing fast email search tool.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Email Search<\/h2>\n<p>Before Xobni, searching for emails within Outlook was a slow and  unrewarding experience.  Now with Xobni&#8217;s instant search, the email  you&#8217;re looking for appears immediately, as you type.<\/p>\n<p>Xobni can build a list of search results for a single keyword <strong>50  times faster<\/strong> than Outlook.  Add that up and you will save  hours each week.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>People Search<\/h2>\n<p>One unique element of Xobni is that search results are split  into two categories: people and mail.  Why do we do this?  We believe  our users have an easier time remembering names over keywords.  When you  are looking for an old email message, you can usually remember the name  of the person who sent it to you.  Type that name into the search box,  click on the people result, and you&#8217;ll get every conversation you had  with that person, as well as all the attachments, contact information,  and other information you may need.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that: a search for &#8216;Matt&#8217; pulls up not only all the  profiles of every Matt you&#8217;ve ever exchanged emails with, but also every  email where the name Matt is mentioned. All in 0.3 seconds.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Yahoo! Mail Search<\/h2>\n<p>Did you know that Xobni is the only way to search your Yahoo  Mail outside of Yahoo itself?  You get all the benefits of Xobni, but  applied to your Yahoo Mail: Xobni&#8217;s lightning-fast search, quick  attachment discovery, contact information extraction, and integrations  with all the major social networks.  All you have to do is enable the <strong>Yahoo  Mail<\/strong> search option in the Xobni options menu.<\/p>\n<h2>Contact Info Search<\/h2>\n<p>Xobni pulls contact info from email signatures, message bodies,  Outlook contacts, as well as our partners: LinkedIn, Facebook, Hoovers,  Skype, and Yahoo.   If you need to quickly pull up the phone number,  company name, and title before your meeting with Jim \u2014 simply type &#8216;Jim&#8217;  in the Xobni search box, and his whole profile of information will be  at your fingertips.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Company Search<\/h2>\n<p>Who are all the people you know at Cisco?  Xobni&#8217;s search  feature also searches the email domains of every person you communicate  with.  Type &#8216;cisco.com&#8217; into the xobni search box, and you&#8217;ll see  everyone you&#8217;ve communicated with that has a cisco.com email address.   The results are ordered from the person you&#8217;ve emailed with most at the  top, to the least emailed at the bottom.  Click on one of the results  and open the Hoover&#8217;s extension to see their company&#8217;s corporate  information.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Find attachments by person<\/h2>\n<p>Do you ever get an email from your boss asking for feedback on a  document she sent you three weeks ago? Before Xobni, finding the exact  document wasn&#8217;t an easy task.<\/p>\n<p>With Xobni&#8217;s Files Exchanged feature, you can quickly find the  document without leaving the email you were working on.  Suppose the  attachment was from Carol.  Open Carol&#8217;s Xobni profile by searching for  her name or navigating to an email from her.  The Files Exchanged  section will display every attachment you have sent and received. You&#8217;ll  quickly find that document she sent you.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Version tracking<\/h2>\n<p>The great thing about the way Xobni displays attachments is that  you&#8217;ll always have the exact version of the Word document or Excel  spreadsheet you were looking for. The Xobni sidebar may display several  versions of the attachment you are looking for.  Know that the top one  is the most recent, and the bottom one was the original.  Easy as cake.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Filter attachment results<\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes the list of attachments in a Xobni profile can be  long.  Xobni makes finding a particular attachment simple.  By clicking  on the small magnifying glass you can filter the attachment list by name  or document type.  If the document title was &#8220;Oregon Trail,&#8221; filter for  the word &#8220;Oregon.&#8221;  If you know it was a word document, filter to the  file type &#8220;doc&#8221; to view only word documents.  Attachment management and  discovery has never been so easy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Drag, save or open<\/h2>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve found an attachment in Xobni it couldn&#8217;t be easier  to act on it.  You can click to open it, right-click to save it or open  the email that contained the attachment, and you can also drag the  attachment right from the Xobni sidebar into a new message.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Automatic Address Book<\/h2>\n<p>You probably don&#8217;t want to add everyone you receive an email  from to your Outlook address book. However, you never know when someone  you didn&#8217;t add to your address book will become important to you. Xobni  solves this problem by creating what we call an &#8220;<strong>automatic  address book<\/strong>.&#8221; Xobni creates a profile for every person you  have ever communicated with. The profiles for your contacts will be full  of information including: emails, attachments, phone numbers, Skype  IDs, pictures, company names and titles. This will allow you to treat  your Outlook contacts like a favorites list, and trust Xobni to manage  your <strong>automatic address book<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Automatic phone number extraction<\/h2>\n<p>Xobni sifts through your email and automatically extracts phone  numbers from email signatures, message bodies , as well as Outlook  contacts.  This information automatically appears in your contacts&#8217;  Xobni profiles. If you do not have someone&#8217;s phone number, you can use  Xobni&#8217;s <strong>Request Phone Number<\/strong> feature. This will  generate an automated email requesting their phone number. When they  reply, their number is automatically added to their profile. Very handy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Schedule meetings in a single click<\/h2>\n<p>Xobni simplifies the complex task of scheduling a meeting with a  contact. The <strong>Schedule time with&#8230;<\/strong> feature generates  an email containing your availability based on the free and busy times  in your Outlook Calendar.   All the other person needs to do is pick a  time that works for them, and your meeting is set.   Save time managing  your time.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Conversation threading<\/h2>\n<p>With Xobni, all interchanges between you and a contact are  instantly displayed as a list of email conversations. Emails are  threaded based on their subject and are shown in the order in which they  occurred. Xobni also conveniently shows you which conversations include  attachments with the help of a handy paperclip.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Zoom<\/h2>\n<p>But Xobni doesn&#8217;t stop there. Clicking on a conversation reveals  all of emails contained within. You can instantly view who said what  and when they said it. The <strong>Detail<\/strong> slider expands and  contracts the body of the emails so you can zoom out for a 30,000 foot  view of the conversation or zoom in for the 10 foot view.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>People and files<\/h2>\n<p>Conversations both spoken and written are comprised of two or  more people. Xobni shows you a list of the people who have participated  in a conversation. Furthermore, all the files exchanged are listed for  your convenience. Xobni takes the guess work out of email by threading  Outlook in a meaningful and easy to understand way.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Discover hidden associations within your email<\/h2>\n<p>Xobni takes a personal approach to viewing email. It organizes  your contacts and ranks them based on the volume and frequency of your  interchanges. Xobni doesn&#8217;t stop there. It displays the relationships  that exist between your contacts by analyzing the From, To, and CC  sections of your email. You might just be surprised by the results. You  might discover that two people in your inbox know each other because  they&#8217;ve been on emails together, but this information was never surfaced  before.  You may also quickly find your business partner&#8217;s assistant&#8217;s  name without having to go back and search through the CC line on old  messages.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Social Networking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Xobni brings information from the social web into your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Xobni connects to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce and more  to give you a full picture of your Outlook contacts, including  information from your email and from the web.<\/p>\n<p>With pictures and status updates, Xobni&#8217;s connecter displays a  live stream of social information about your contacts inside Outlook  2003, 2007 and 2010.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Person by person statistics<\/h2>\n<p>Do you know what time of the day is the best time to get a  response from your boss?  Do you know the balance of your relationship  with your customer: do they send you more email or do you send them  more?   Who are the top 10 people you send emails to?  Do you send more  emails to your boss than your spouse?   Xobni exposes all of this data  and more about the people you communicate with \u2014 in Outlook, and  automatically.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Email pattern graphs<\/h2>\n<p>From inside the Xobni menu you can access Xobni Analytics \u2014 our  powerful tool for analyzing your own email behaviors over time.  What  day of the week are you slowest to respond to email?  What time of day  do you send the most email?  Was this January or last January busier  with new email contacts?<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Fun email stats<\/h2>\n<p>Xobni creates fun and revealing statistics to share with your  friends and coworkers.  Say &#8220;thanks&#8221; to the person inside your company  that responds to you fastest.  Or, tell the person that responds the  slowest, &#8220;Thanks for nothing!&#8221; See who sends you the most email within  your company \u2014 or across all of your email contacts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments. 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