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If you're reading a message from John Smith, for example,
it shows the number of e-mail messages John has sent you,
broken down by the time of day they were sent. From this information,
you can tell if John tends not to respond until a certain
time of day, so you can anticipate when he might reply to
future e-mail.
Your contact profiles show (with a photo, if you have one)
in the top of the Xobni pane; the application also displays
each contact's phone number, which it extracts from e-mail
messages. Below each contact profile, you see a thread of
conversations you've had and files you've exchanged. You can
quickly find and view threads by specific topics; a slider
control reveals more or fewer lines of the conversation.
Xobni also creates a kind of social network by keeping track
of any additional recipients on e-mail messages sent to you.
You can add your friends' contacts to your address book or
quickly draft e-mail to them from within Xobni. This includes
anyone that has been included as a recipient in an e-mail
to or from the contact. This allows you to quickly determine
other related contacts that could be a resource for information
related to a previous e-mail. If you hover over the person’s
name you can see their e-mail and phone number if they exist
in your address book already, or just their e-mail address
if they aren’t currently in your address book. If you
have Skype's VoIP service on your PC, Xobni integrates with
it nicely; a quick tap of a phone number within a Xobni profile
generates a SkypeOut call. Two template options also appear
in this pane: One creates a blank e-mail, and the other creates
a meeting request. For the latter, Xobni saves you time by
autofilling the request with open time slots pulled from your
Outlook Calendar.
You can use Xobni for simple searches within Outlook, too,
and it often returns results much more quickly than Outlook's
search does. Xobni also goes far beyond speedy searching,
providing logical social information and extended functionality
that Outlook simply doesn't.
One can also see a list of attachments that have been included
in previous e-mails with the selected contact. How many times
have you been reading a response to a message and it references
an earlier attachment with some kind of data in it you needed.
Now you no longer have to exit out of the message you’re
reading to go find the attachment with the information you
need out of the attachment. If you hover over the attachment
information you can see the text of the e-mail message that
included the attachment. To open the document in it’s
default viewer all you need to do is click on it.
Another feature available is the Xobni Analytics. There are
loads of graphs and charts providing information like:
- Daily summaries
- Mail traffic
- response times
- unique contacts
- folders used
- subjects
- recipient types
- flag status
- context of e-mails
and lots more.
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