Xobni is a widget that runs within Outlook. It bills itself as enabling you ‘to find people, e-mail and attachments instantly’, and pretty much lives up to its billing.  All it has to do is index your outlook e-mail one time.  I’ve been running it for a week or so and it’s very stable and useful. It indexes your e-mail and then provides analytics and some summary data about the individual who sent you the e-mail, such as: amount of mail sent and received, frequency with which you interact, an automatic listing of e-mails and documents exchanged, contact info, and who that person’s circle of people includes.  It does this all in one interface and does it automatically.  I think the interface, though not perfect, is quite good and usable.

You can download the component for free at [1] www.xobni.com/download.  By the way, in case you haven’t figured it out yet, ‘Xobni’ is ‘inbox’ spelled backwards.

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