Comments on: Xobni: Email Made Easier Than Ever

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:12:55 +0000

Thanks for the link. I tried Xobni for a few days. The analytics are very cool. They definitely appeal to my inner geek. However, the performance of Xobni isn’t great. (Yes, I know it’s in Beta.) Outlook startup time is drastically slower, and Outlook runs slower during general use. (My setup is Vista SP1 + Outlook 2007 SP1.) Also, the search feature doesn’t integrate with the “Search Inbox” feature in Outlook 2007. This is disappointing given how slow the MS search engine is. It’s probably an Outlook limitation, but the lack of integration limits the usefulness of Xobni. I uninstalled it.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:43:57 +0000

Just listen to the demo clip:

http://www.xobni.com/learnmore/

By: noematic.logos

noematic.logos — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:38:43 +0000

typical answer, spend more money and get an even bigger, [insert technology here] solution, well I don’t have a 22″ monitor as my computing solution is a 15″ laptop, and not everyone can afford to upgrade hardware every time a new widget is released. And answers like “its awesome” tell us nothing about what *is* actually awesome. I was commenting on the information in the review, so please, share your knowledge with us and illuminate us as to why we need this sidebar beyond what is contained within this article. Just because M$ wants to buy it, doesn’t make it revolutionary or groundbreaking, since M$ has done that with hundreds of companies and products that have done little to improve the Windows user experience.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:59:53 +0000

Well, on a 22″ widescreen monitor, the sidebar doesn’t waste any space at all… There’s a reason why Microsoft tried to buy the company who made this several times.. it’s simply awesome..

By: noemtic.logos

noemtic.logos — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:45:31 +0000

If you use Gmail, you must install the ‘Better Gmail 2′ extension for Firefox. Beyond that, it is super easy to find ALL attachments by making a filter and label for…wait for it….’a t t a c h m e n t s’. So, an email comes in with an attachment and the label ‘attachment’ is added to it, then when you want to find an attachment you can just click the associated label. While I think it is super wizbang to have a sidebar of various statistics and demographics about my contacts, I can’t think of many scenarios where that amount of wasted screen space is going to be useful for much. Who cares about the frequency distribution of times of day when a contact sent you emails?? One of those situations where because you can, doesn’t make it useful. Statistics are easy to generate, providing meaningful ones at the correct time is an art.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:31:08 +0000

Hmm John, I’m using on Outlook 2003 / XP and it works perfectly.. Have you installed the latest built?

By: john

john — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:35:42 +0000

“The program supports Outlook 2003 or 2007 running on XP or Vista.”

er no, it doesn’t.

we trialled this internally, anyone using outlook 2003 or xp and it killed outlook as soon as they recieved an incoming email, hence we ditched it. though i believe one vista running office 2007 colleague still uses it..