New Tools to Manage your Inbox

Email has become the most crucial tool in the business world, regardless of your size. We all have huge mail folders we try to manage. Everyone has a different approach for organizing and managing email. Some create folders by client or subject. Some create rules to automatically move messages to the right folder. Personally I prefer a flat approach. I just keep it all in my inbox and use search tools to find that email I have not gotten a response on, or need to follow up.

Experts say the knowledge workers will soon be spending up to 40% of their work day just managing email. That’s how important this has become. I found a new tool to help manage my inbox. It’s called xobni. It’s an simple outlook plugin, and it’s simply awesome. It gives a lot of great information about your email. Who do you email with the most? What time of day are they most likely to reply? How fast do they reply? Search by person and find attachments you have been sharing. Link to appointments and phone numbers. Even view their Linked In profile.

It’s pretty powerful stuff. As a new product, it is still available as a free download, but who knows how long that will last. Check it out here.