On my way back from vacation this past week, I happened upon this new service called Xobni —strange name for such a powerful (and so far, free) service!  If you use Outlook 2007 and ever tried to find a previous or archived email, you know how time consuming and frustrating that can be.

This is where Xobni comes in.  It’s an Outlook add-on that gives you Google-like powers of instantly finding anything within your Outlook.  After it does the initial indexing of your PST file (the main Outlook database that contains everything –you can also have it index your archives as well), it allows you to do the following:

• Find anything almost instantly using using “presumptive” search (i.e. as you type it returns likely hits)
   
• Organizes your messages into threads
   
• Find any attachment from previous messages
   
• View statistics on your email activities (very cool –you have to see this for yourself to appreciate it)
   
• and much, much more.

I’ve only been using it for a few days and have found it to be an invaluable add-on to my Outlook 2007.

DISCLAIMER: AS ALWAYS WITH ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE DO YOUR OWN DUE DILIGENCE AND USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
(sorry, my attorney’s make me say stuff like that )