Xobni Makes Email Stupid Easy
A few days ago I did a good thing - I downloaded Xobni and made Outlook something I’d want to use. Generally, I find Outlook slow, sluggish, and great at hiding my messages. We’ll pretend that folders to organize emails don’t exist in my reality.
Outlook with Xobni is still slow and sluggish. The benefit of Xobni is that my messages become magically unhidden! 
I spend less time in Outlook looking for things, which cuts down the number of actions I’m taking inside of Outlook, which minimizes loading time for opening emails and ultimately, saves me time.
I use Gmail. I love Gmail. I use and love Gmail because it’s email made stupid easy. I have zillion MB’s of storage. My email box is my own personal index that I can take a Google Search bar and find the relevant emails that I’m looking for. Using Outlook made me wish I could just forward all email to Gmail.
So Why Use Outlook?
Business. It’s just business. The company email goes to the Outlook, and Xobni makes the Outlook like Gmail on crack. Not only does Xobni thread email conversations, it also pulls out the attachments, and provides analytics around email exchange frequency and time of day these email exchanges happen. Xobni also includes social connectivity information for your contacts. Hence Gmail on crack.
I’d like to thank Chris Apollo Lynn and Marie Williams for hooking me up with Xobni. You guys rock! How did I hear about the Xobni? Via my current favorite microblogging app, Twitter.
It All Goes Back to Twitter
Twitter and Xobni have gotten it right in so many ways. Twitter makes expressing yourself stupid easy. Some might think just stupid, but really, it’s stupid easy. It’s so simple, you really aren’t missing anything. There’s only so much complexity that 140 characters can hold. Xobni approaches the stupid easy a little differently - it’s only fairly intuitive and the sluggishness coupled with my impatience creates a different experience from that high energy, zippy thoughts flying around on Twitter. Xobni’s strength comes from enabling you to find the messages you need easily.
I’ve got 4 Xobni invites left - leave me a comment or send me an email with a funny story about email and I’ll pay them forward. Or as always, tweet @anwith1n
Tags: Chris Apollo Lynn, Email, Gmail, Marie Williams, Outlook, Twitter, Xobni
February 15th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Have you connected Gmail IMAP with Outlook so you can get Gmail in your Outlook?
February 15th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Nice post. It took me several years of Outlooking to arrive at the right set of ‘workflows’ to accomplish everything I might want. Xobni, on the other hands seems to provide that from the get-go, and represents what the application is missing. Wink.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I haven’t connected Gmail IMAP to Outlook yet - anyone who has, please let me know how that’s working out for you!
February 17th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I’d love a Xobni invite. I too use Outlook for work emails and if it can help then I’m all for it.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:12 am
I have linked gmail with Outlook - so far, so good.
Twitter. Stupid easy, perhaps. I have found that trying to - intuitively via their ‘tools’ - to get a full page, background image posted is not all that intuitive, and I have even discovered that searching and finding myself, or my friends, is ‘bugged’. Neither show up. Curious, considering the twitter ‘heads’ are from google. Little annoying. Further note: twitter customer service is outsourced - or so it seems - and emails concerning various complaints come 7 days later and are, at that, robotic in nature - not personalized at all. They were pre formated. Weird. It’s a small company - burgeoning growth, no doubt - but weird they would have such terrible correspondece with users who, at this point, are still ‘first stage adopters’…
February 28th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Jamie - sorry for my speed (or lack thereof) in my response. You bring up good points - have you noticed that when Twitter goes down, people tend to tweet about it?
March 13th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
further update on twitter: the most highly addictive application for me since…google. esp. when you’re following the likes of jowyang