I’ve been using Xobni for a while now, and while it’s not without some minor warts, overall, it’s pretty good at finding emails that I nearly forgot about.

On that front, however, I have similar luck with Outlook 2007. Both have pretty speedy search capabilities, but Xobni’s just a little quicker and searches a little deeper by default.

With so many different conversation that span back and forth I have been relying on the search function in Outlook 2007.
If this piece of software can actually display all my threaded conversation with the clients withouth the need to install a completely different progarm…? Sounds too good to be true. Though if it really works my whole office here will be lining up to get a copy.
I have posted a request on xobni but they are probably swamped already. If someone has an invite would you please share montevale/at/hotmai/dot/com
Thanks.

This sounds like what I have been looking for for a long time. I probably send and receive 200 emails a day and I use X1 extensivly for its advanced indexing and search functions. It does the job but I am still searching for something better. If anyone has an invite please send it across (al.whitehead[at]gmail.com). Thanks.

I signed up for the xobni beta also but havnt heard back yet.

Put my name up for the Xobni testing invitiation, and within hours I got an email invite from xobni. What a joy!
I’ve immediately installed the app, and lo and behold… Outlook started with the following error “Cannot open your default email folders”, and closed right away.

Grrrr.

Matt tossed me one of his invites and I loaded it yesterday, thanks Matt!
It is highly recommended to be in cached mode for speed indexing purposes.
Although it took the installer a little over an hour to index my mailbox and pst files (I get a lot of mail) after that no processor load detected while using it.
So far I really like it, helps track long email threads and groups of users efficiently. The phone number portion is still buggy though.
The analytics are great for engineering nerds like me, but a little alarming to see how much actual email grows month to month.
Great find guys, thanks for keeping me up to date on lots of stuff!

Matt tossed me one of his invites and I loaded it yesterday, thanks Matt!
It is highly recommended to be in cached mode for speed indexing purposes.
Although it took the installer a little over an hour to index my mailbox and pst files (I get a lot of mail) after that no processor load detected while using it.
So far I really like it, helps track long email threads and groups of users efficiently. The phone number portion is still buggy though.
The analytics are great for engineering nerds like me, but a little alarming to see how much actual email grows month to month.
Great find guys, thanks for keeping me up to date on lots of stuff!

I tried xonbi early in its beta (outlook 2007 and imap) and it really bogged me down. Anybody have a similar setup that can report performance impressions? I liked the app but it was too flawed back then. I may have to give it another go.

I’m not comparing xobni to other programs, just saying it works well for me. It doesn’t impact Outlook in any way, in either performance nor does it alter the PST. Thus it won’t impact syncing.

It looks like a good program. However, it requires Outlook 2003 or 2007 and our firm still used 2002!

It looks like a good program. However, it requires Outlook 2003 or 2007 and our firm still used 2002!

My first question, now that you’ve turned my head, can you say if you think this is a better idea than MailStore (which can manage several mail apps at once), but more importantly, do you think this will tax outlook in anyway that might add sync problems with Active sync and pocket outlook, etc. Just curious what you’ve seen so far. Thanx.

That was quick. All my invites have been taken now by jkOnTheRun readers.

Ah, I see. Thanks James.

I’m guessing Gmail doesn’t have some of the features you need? It obviously has great search, and emails are written out like a forum thread, very nice. I’m sure you’ve probably given it a try before but I suppose some aspects of it don’t quite cover your needs (offline access?)

Jake, xobni is instant and these are already displayed in the sidebar. You don’t have to do anything to see them, they’re always there.