Working smarter: Using Xobni to make Outlook social

Xobni, pronounced zob-knee is the spelling of inbox backwards. Groundbreaking! It is also the name of new software currently in Beta and rated by Microsoft and Bill Gates. Xobni plugs into the Microsoft Outlook sidebar to bring a much more social way for relating to our contacts. Using a powerful analytics package it is able to show you who your top contacts are, send to receive ratios and map out the time of day you usually receive emails from a particular contact. The part that excites me most is the way in which it tracks conversations.

I spend far too many minutes during the day searching through previously received emails to keep track of current tasks. Xobni eliminates this by being able to search through an entire conversation from contacts on a particular thread of emails. This is all completed within the Xobni sidebar system so I don’t even have to leave the current email that I have displayed in my view pane. Xobni also has the ability to extract contacts telephone numbers and add them to a profile. If you are a Skype user, functionality is added to contact from the sidebar. This will be of huge use at both work and as a freelancer being able to search through emails as if it is a logical conversation.

Thanks to Gina Trapani from Lifehacker for the heads up on this. Watch Xobni in action.

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Tags: Bill Gates, Lifehacker, Microsoft, social email, working smarter, Xobni

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