April 9th 2008 12:28 pm
Gadget Of the Week - XOBNI
Even though today’s gadget is not gadget per say but an Outlook plug-in, this is by f
ar best geek product of this week. XOBNI (pronounced “ZOB-nee”) is a new program developed by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina which tries to de-clutter your Outlook inbox.
If you are like me, and I know you are, your life is ruled by email and if your email is ruled by Outlook, you are knee high in shyt. The biggest problem I have with it, like most people I know, is that if you receive more than 20 emails per day in a week you cannot find a damn thing. This has been remedied somewhat by invention of Google Desktop and new search feature in Outlook 2007, but problems still exit. Google indexes everything and you rely on knowing the correct keywords for finding something, whilst search feature embedded in Outlook 2007 is so damn slow it’s like puling teeth.
The first time you see XOBNI you get that “NO, WAY! How do they do that!” feeling. When you select a message, in a separate sidebar all the information is instantly generated. You get all of it; from the message itself, senders contact details, to the analysis of frequency and time of day this person sends you messages. The cool thing is that XOBNI does all of this automatically. All of the data is collected from emails themselves, like telephone and fax numbers, and there’s no need for you to fiddle around with it. The best thing is that emails are also organized according to conversation and you can instantly see all of the attachments sent to you by certain contact! Do I see that “NO WAY” moment coming?
The only problem for right now is that XOBNI is in private beta. Yes I know, it’s not fair that only privileged have it, but fear not, you can register on XOBNI site and you can be one of the lucky few who get to take back the control of their Outlook inbox.
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