I’ve been using Xobni for the last 48 hours or so, and while I’m pretty damned impressed, I had some suggestions for the team:
- Searching is good, but I can’t pull up the whole conversation… So if one email in the conversation has a message, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to just open THAT email.
- The attachment finder rules… Can we sort these by date, size, filetype please? I have some folk that have sent me over 1000 attachments… Scrolling sucks.
- In a search list, when a message has an attachment and I click the attachment link, can you open the attachment?
- Can there be an option to sync my Xobni “network” with my Outlook contacts? I know it reduces the “value” of Xobni (ie: keeping data in the walled garden), but it makes it infinitely more useful for me, as my outlook and gmail and blackberry contacts all sync. So to make your app more useful, have it sync into my outlook ecosystem and I’ll love Xobni forever just for this one feature!
- Have a way to reset the dates for tracking in/out… I’d previously deleted a bunch of old messages from folk, so my ratios are all like 10:1 in favour of me responding to emails. Which looks great, but is totally false. Even better would be a rolling average (30 days or something).
- Have a way to add To-Dos right from the Xobni toolbar.
- More Options.
Okay, that’s it. Little things, but things that would help me use Xobni more / better / etc.
For those who aren’t using it, I really do recommend it. The attachment finding, if nothing else, is fantastic. I also find myself using Gmail less to search for long lost emails and staying in Outlook more, which makes me more productive!
December 19th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for all of your feedback. I’m glad to hear you are enjoying Xobni.
I’m not sure what version you are on, but a lot of your concerns are already addressed as of build 2456.
1. If you do a search in Xobni and pull up the email result, next to the “reply” “open” links there is a “view conversation” link. That should address your request
2. There is a little magnifying glass in the right corner of each Xobni “feed.” You can click on the magnifying glass in the attachment feed to filter the attachment results. I do a “.xls” filter all the time to quickly find excel spreadsheets. Try it out.
3. Currently, you have to dig one step deeper to get to the attachments in search results. Once you open the email in the Xobni pane you can click to open the attachment. This is good feedback. Thanks.
4. We have this built. It will be available soon.
5,6,7 Good feedback, we’ll do what we can
Thanks again.
-Matt
co-founder/Xobni
December 19th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Thanks a tonne Matt… Does Xobni auto-update? Because I now see a bunch of new features in there that weren’t there before (including the conversational slider, which I’d seen in the video)?
Either way I’m on 2456, so yeah, 1 & 2 are totally done, thanks!
And thanks for the info on 2, it’s really helpful!
All the best
December 19th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
yes, Xobni auto updates. We just built a message box that will start telling people they’ve been updated. It will be in the next release.
-Matt
December 21st, 2007 at 9:42 pm
“if one email in the conversation has a message, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to just open THAT email.”
I had the same problem and then I see that the new version allows you to right click. I had an older version too. Overall…Xobni rocks!