Xobni is an Outlook plugin. Xobni provides several enhancement to Outlook including enhanced searching, threaded conversations and links to social networks. As a general rule we do not encourage our clients to load extra plugins or add-ons to Outlook, because they often create conflicts and issues, but we have several heavy email reliant clients who are using Xobni, so we decided to give it a try ourselves.
One of the features we really like a lot in our office is Xobni’s ability to lookup email address from your contacts/address book directly from the “To” or “CC” line of an email. Outlook provides similar functionality, but Xobni’s lookup searches your address book (Outlook searches a separate cache of recently used emails addresses). The result is the Xobni find the email addresses you are looking more often. We have found this to be a big boost to productivity.
Initially, we were not that interested in Xobni’s ability to link to social networks, but we are finding this functionality also quite useful especially when dealing with a new contact whom we have not meet face to face yet.
You can download the plugin from www.xobni.com