In this day and age just about everyone uses email, even my mother emails me now and it’s getting more and more difficult to organize. I use Outlook since it sync’s with my phones and it’s a nice email client that keeps on getting better.

I just found another way to easily search Outlook and thought that I would write a blog for others that may not know about it; it’s an Outlook plug-in called Xobni and could be the answer to trying to find anything you want in Outlook. I feel that the most useful feature is the way this plug-in brings up all the attachments that a contact has sent you every time you highlight an email from that contact.  The other day I was trying to find an attachment that I’d forgotten to save to a folder and it took me awhile, not anymore.  No more having to view each email to find the attachment that I’m looking for, or having to place everyone in folders to keep things organized. I’ve just started to use this Xobni so there are many things that I am still figuring out, but so far I’m impressed….so impressed that I’m blogging about it. Xonbi also integrates with LinkedIn which really caught my eye, if the email is from someone that uses LinkedIn it will let you know that they have a profile as long as that is the email they use in LinkedIn.

The program is a beta, but it’s free and works….so far. The only issue that I had is that it locked up trying to index all of my email, but it continued after restarting Outlook. If you IMAP your email accounts it takes awhile to index, but it’s worth the wait. I don’t think that you will be disappointed if you try this out, especially since it’s free. I’d recommend watching the video prior to installing, the video gives a nice overview of how the program works inside Outlook.

You can download Xobni at http://www.xobni.com. I would love to see some comments here from anyone that tries Xobni out. Let everyone know if you like it, or hate it.