I am a long time Outlook user who just recently moved to Gmail for many reasons (to be discussed in a later post). However, my interest in Outlook has been reignited with the public beta release of Xobni (inbox spelled backwards). Xobni is a plugin that essentially transforms MS Outlook program into a social network. It improves upon Outlook’s organization, search, and navigation abilities to a greater standard and makes it more user friendly. Xobni is a great analytics tool that identifies and displays trends for who and when you email someone and vice versa. It also automatically extracts contact information, attachments, and the sender’s known acquaintance’s (i.e. friends) from emails to display nicely on his/her profile for quick access. Xobni will save you tons of time and from many headaches searching for that lost email or attachment. You can also quickly identify trends in what time your friends or coworkers are mostly likely to email you or be in their office. Check out the quick tutorial video below for more information about Xobni or download it from the Xobni website.

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