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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. In a search list, when a message has an attachment and I click the attachment link, can you open the attachment?
  4. 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!
  5. 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).
  6. Have a way to add To-Dos right from the Xobni toolbar.
  7. 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!