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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