Xobni Plus – it’s Outlook, but not as we know it!

Xobni has been growing in popularity since it launched the free email manager back in 2007. Now it offers a new improved full-featured version, called Xobni Plus, delivering the most powerful inbox control tool we’ve ever seen. John Hillman explains all.

For those of you unfamiliar with Xobni, it is a tool that lives in your Outlook window and makes searching for contacts, files and emails much simpler and quicker than you ever thought possible. For anyone whose inbox receives a lot of traffic it is an invaluable time saving tool.

Smart search functions and bespoke profiles for each of your contacts allows you to effortlessly find emails and attachments from years ago – even if you cannot remember when it was sent. Just type a keyword into the search bar and Xobni does the rest.

It’s powerful software. We’ve been playing with the new version here at PC Site and we are seriously impressed with the speed that Xobni finds words, phrases and names. When we say instant, we really mean it.

Xobni says that it’s ten times more powerful than your Outlook search tool and we have no reason not to believe them. It doesn’t just search contacts in your address book but even ones cc’d on other emails. This is powerful stuff.

The new in-depth search feature gives you some really useful options, such as only looking for emails before a certain date or only the ones with attachments, while the new Facebook feature displays your contacts Facebook stream in real-time.

We really like the way that it gives you the option to instantly Google anyone who emails you, check their LinkedIn profile, find out more about the company they’re with, using Hoover, and even look at their Twitter updates. It brings a whole new sense of social inter-connectivity to your inbox.

Xobi Plus is available to download from their website for $29.95 and we highly recommend it to anyone whose Outlook inbox handles a heavy workload.