iCochise - Xobni Critique
Home Page: http://www.xobni.com/
Description (copied from their site): Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments.
Cost: Free
Grade: A
Compare With: None
Critique: Xobni adds an Outlook sidebar that makes it easy to find information stored there. Users can search their entire Outlook data store for people, messages, attachments, and other information. Messages found by searching are displayed in threads so it is easy to move back through time to follow some conversation. Xobni also automatically extracts and displays the sender's phone number so it is easy to call.
Xobni creates a full range of email analytics, so users can find out who is emailing the most, what time of the day is busiest, and other information.
The most useful of Xobni's features is managing attachments. Users can search for a person (like the boss) and all of the attachments that person has sent are clearly listed at the bottom of the Xobni window. That means users do not have to spend a lot of time searching through old email messages looking for a specific attachment that was sent "a couple of months ago."
This is a great tool and helps people organize Outlook in a very usable way.