Make your Microsoft Outlook Search Faster with Xobni
Microsoft Outlook is one of the prominent Email Clients people use. Outlook can be configured for Yahoo!Mail, MSN, Gmail and of course, exchange server. MSN was the first provider of POP/SMTP settings to the users so that Desktop Email clients can be configured. Gmail is one of the biggest email providers now. It could be because of it’s features, the brand name, or even because of it’s size.
Yes, in my view size does matter. I should say, Gmail has revolutionized the way people use Emails. Earlier, we used to have email storage capacities with 10 MB, they went to 100 MB, to 1 GB and now it’s unlimited. The size of my Gmail is more than 2 GB and I’m sure same is the case with many others. It’s easy to search for emails in Gmail as it comes with state of the art, Google Search.
What if you use Outlook as Desktop Email Client for Gmail? You might have noticed the difficulty in searching your email content while in Outlook. At least, I find it difficult. But, not any longer. Thanks to Xobni. A state of the art tool to that offers a way to organize and search your outlook, easily.
What is Xobni?
Xobni is an Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments.
After a click install, the sender’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.
How does it work?
Xobni offers a new way to organize and search your Outlook email. Xobni creates profiles for each person that emails you. These profiles contain relationship statistics, contact information, social connections, threaded conversations, and shared attachments.
Why Xobni?
Because people spend too much time searching for conversations, attachments, and other important information in their inbox. This is the perfect way to reduce it. Moreover, it provides lot of other features.
Features
- Lightning fast email search – searches for the content as you type the keywords.
- Just like Google Analytics, it provides Email Analytics. Rankings, graphs, and statistics detailing how you and your contacts use email.
- Scheduling appointments made easy. Xobni automatically finds open slots in your busy schedule.
- Threaded conversations.
- Quick Attachment discovery – Historical attachments available even without searching.
- Phone numbers extracted from emails automatically.
- Web services integration – Integrates your LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Skype & Hoovers accounts easily.
If you are among those using Outlook Desktop client to access your Gmail, for that matter any other email, then Xobni is a must have plugin. Let me know your feedback once you install and experience it.
Did you also notice that ‘Xobni’ is the word ‘Inbox’ spelled in reverse?
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Comments
@Michael, Agree with you. Best advisable to you when you have huge PSTs. But again, one need to figure out which is more important. Speed of loading or speed of searching?
BTW, thanks for the first comment on Read 2 Know! 
what about lookeen? i use it since 2 months and it works really fast and safe.
could not notice that my outlook got slower.
perhaps you should try that!
-Jason-
@Jason, Didn’t knew about Lookeen before. But, looks like one has to buy it. I didn’t find a free version, though there is a Trial!
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I also use lookeen and although it is not for free, I really like it. But I have a question concerning xobni. Is it right that xobni (although it is not beta any longer) is not able to search keywords in attachements? I heard it, but I can´t believe it.
Hey
I also use lookeen and although it is not for free I really like it. But I have a question concerning xobni. Is it right that xobni (although it is not beta any longer) is not able to search keywords within attachments? I heard it but I can´t believe it.
I just checked it out and it looks pretty sweet, thanks for the link
Arun there’s a download tab at the top of the page
We have been using xobni here in the office and we all find it very useful.We all like the fast email search feature, thanks a lot!
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Yes , after reading this post , I want to test it once .
this blog is very informative.
Thanks.
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Thanks for the post. I implemented this in MS Outlook and it seem to have really helped my searches. I wish I had known about this earlier.
Xobni is great. I introduced it to my coworkers and they really like it.
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Hi, I really like your stuff here, you are welcome to visit my blog and read my latests posts there about Outlook plugins and usefull software. Udi
With this tool, it would be easier for us to handle things when we are using outlook. Not need to spend time searching for important stuff that you can’t really remember. Just click the button and presto! Archive is there!
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I was not aware of such a plugin for Outlook. I will implement it asap and see how it works.
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It is interesting the two examples you use at the start of your article as I use Gmail and Hotmail. I have not heard of Xobni but it sounds really useful. I will download it and give it a try. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
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Well Xobni is powerful in e-mail management.Its search functionality, that allows viewing of most recent e-mail exchanged is really great. The speed at which it shut out thousands of less useful e-mails from my Outlook Inbox is just amazing.
Wow I didn’t know about this, htanks for the info, I didn’t know Xobni was so powerful.
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The problem with xobni, it’s faster to search, but slower to load my Outlook
I uninstalled it again after playing around with it for a while
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