Xobni is Inbox backwards (Outlook addon)

scbarnes — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:58:18 GMT

Every now and then some goodness comes across my inbox and this product is shaping up to becoming a must-have tool for me. It's called Xobni and it's focus is purely on giving me statistics etc around people with whom I interact via email.

Internally, I'm fairly well known for my emails and I wonder what people are going to think about my email habits should they choose to install this product.

I especially love how it gives me information around whom I speak with the most (ranking) along side what time(s) of the day these folks are most likely on.

Why is this important?

It can help determine when's the best time to call someone or simply choose to leave them an email. In that if for example PersonA spends a large amount of their time between 11am - 1pm emailing, it's probably not a good time to call them about something (don't want to interrupt anyone during a clear inbox period). It's also interesting to note how many people reply to my emails from sun-up to sun-down.

This is a great product, and I love how it's contextually aware of my habits.

http://www.xobni.com/

p.s

Thanks Frank for the invite.. muchly welcomed.

DPE got bigger - Jorke Odolphi

scbarnes — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:13:43 GMT

In Brisbane office today, and noticed our new "Hosting Evangelist" Jorke, was on deck today. I said my congrats and all and proceeded to log in for the day, only Outlook when first booting up just kept spinning in cycles and was getting unresponsive.

I was also at the time showing Jorke some internal emails he may want to know about, but as I went to click on a message the "white screen of death" appeared. I get this a lot when I first load Windows Vista + Outlook and was cursing Outlook with "Stupid Outlook, it's so much slower then its previous versions.. grrrrr".

Jorke replies, "actually if you have over 1000 emails in your inbox, exchange keeps requesting views etc, so what I usually do is create a folder called 1000+ and keep the emails inside there"..

Sure enough, I followed as he suggested and have already noticed some increases in performance with Outlook (I should setup better rules for my Inbox but time..time people..time... as I type this I already got 34 emails in under 20mins... wtf!)

All I can say is "Welcome Jorke" you're already rocking along nicely.

Jorke is going to be our Hosting Evangelist guy, he's ex-WebCentral and knows his stuff and best part of all is there is now 3 Evangelists in Brisbane now (Chuck, Jorke and Myself).

He's yet to create his MSDN or TechNet Blog.

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Xobni is Inbox backwards (Outlook addon)

DPE got bigger - Jorke Odolphi