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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
32,033
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Additional Requirements:
Outlook 2003 or 2007, 2 GHz processor, 1+ GB RAM
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
March 24, 2009
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Publisher's description of Xobni
From Xobni:Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments.
After a quick install, you'll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook - and suddenly information will become much easier to find. When a new email arrives, 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.
Xobni 1.7 starts Outlook 31 percent faster, with the option to have Xobni installed but not start with Outlook. Profiles now load 42 percent faster and there are more performance controls so users can control how often and how much data Xobni indexes.
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Editor's review of Xobni
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- "Improve your Outlook with Xobni"
- Reviewed on: March 25, 2009
- Version reviewed: Xobni 1.7
Freeware Xobni integrates into your Outlook installation and shows you more about your e-mails than Outlook can by itself. For each person who sends you e-mail, it shows you who else they frequently communicate with--their de facto social networks--and it also finds their phone number from inside their e-mails. It shows you all conversation threads you've participated in with the person, and all the attachments they've sent you. You can drill into message threads, and it has a snappy but redundant e-mail search engine built-in.
Xobni the app runs on Xobni the platform, which has hooks deep into Outlook. The platform is what enables Xobni to graft a viewing pane into Outlook, something other plug-ins can't do, and it's the platform that gives Xobni access to all the message data that it uses without bogging down Outlook itself. Unlike many other Outlook add-ons, Xobni seems to add its functionality without dragging down Outlook's performance, or worse, crashing it. The interface doesn't get in the way, and in fact makes communication easier by searching Yahoo mail from Outlook, as well as pulling in your contact info from LinkedIn, Facebook, Skype, and others for searching. There's no reason not to try it.
Future plans for Xobni include integration into Outlook's default search bar and support for other e-mail apps Gmail, and making the platform available to other vendors--all of which indicate that Xobni definitely wants to be here for the long haul.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 40 votes
- My rating: 0 stars Write review
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Xobni 1.7
"Caused Outlook to crash, then couldn't un-install it."
Pros: Couldn't tell any pros because I never got to use it. It LOOKS good
Cons: When starting Outlook, Xobni kept saying "loading"
If I viewed any folder other than the "Inbox" Outlook closed, when re-opened it had to run a scan on the Data file. When I tried to un-install Xobni I just got an error.
I disabled it in Outlook.Summary: Maybe it just didn't like my system but it didn't work for me.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Xobni 1.7
"A most useful addition to Outlook to review old e-mails"
Pros: Simplicity of use
Cons: Perhaps it slows Outlook slightly
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Xobni 1.7
"Great free program for Outlook junkies"
Pros: Simple, fast, clear layout. great that it runs external to Outlook.
Cons: Needs more refinable search.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Xobni 1.7
Pros: ability to see communication history
Cons: none as I see it
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Xobni 1.7
"Excellent tool if your job involves using email"
Pros: * Visual Statistics on email usage.
* Compiled and centralized info for each of your Outlook Contacts.
- what attachments has each one sent you
- who else has been included on emailed besides you
- public, online info about Contacts is importedCons: * not for low-volume users
* not as relevant for persons who have small address books
* depending on if your email is setup as pop or imap you may find Outlook is slowerSummary: * Excellent tool if your job involves keeping in touch with a lot of persons by email.
* You'll see a side-bar divided into 4 panels;
- top section shows what info you have stored about that contact - that panel also shows how many emai... read more >> - See all 12 user reviews Write review
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