This is Derek Hatchard's blog. The general theme around here is "improving experiences" which includes managing technology, user experiences, life hacking, and some business related stuff. Derek has a software development blog at ardentdev.com, is co-founder of the product review site wellrated.com, and runs Crowd Space (a management tool for people, lists, and events).

Have You Tried Xobni?

Xobni – it’s inbox backwards.  It’s some kind of email management add-on for Outlook.  It seems to have some compelling features like showing a profile of your email interactions with people and automatically extracting phone numbers from emails.

I was a loyal Lookout user for searching in Outlook 2003.  Outlook 2007 has better search so I haven’t felt the same pain, but apparently this add-on improves on OL2007 search.

I’d tell you more about Xobni but it’s still in closed beta.  Supposedly if you click on the Xobni badge below, they’ll bump me up to the top of the beta invitation list:

Xobni outlook add-in for your inbox


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4 Responses

  1. Randal F. says:

    You can get Lookout to work with Outlook 2007! Leon Zandman has created a patch that makes it work again:

    http://www.wirwar.com/blog/2008/01/22/search-e-mail-at-lightspeed-using-lookout-with-outlook-2007/

  2. Klaus Schilling says:

    There is a follower of Lookout! It’s called Lookeen – take a look:

    http://www.lookeen.com

    It’s very similar but it works with Vista and Outlook 2007. In my opinion a good solution for everybody who misses Lookout…

  3. Paul Linos says:

    thanks klaus schilling for the tip with lookeen, i agree to you, it is really very similar to lookout and easy to work with…i was surprised how fast an exactly it works…

  4. carol shorthurst says:

    i know lookeen and tried the 15 days free version and just can say i am very content with it…it is very similar to lookout with which i worked bevor…it´s as fast and exact as lookout and even search trough attachments, what i like very much!

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