I may have found a new girlfriend called Xobni, don't tell firebug

I'm a web developer, and while there is a constant march of new tools and techniques that have made my life better, one thing that still tops the list is FireBug (the Firefox plug-in). Seriously, if you're developing web applications without Firebug you're working too hard.

Now, I think I may have another top 5 item. It's called Xobni (inbox backward - pronounced Zob-nee, so I can tell). I've been playing around with it for about two days now and it seems to solve really well some of the most basic outlook problems. The first and probably most annoying is the age old "I know he sent me a copy of it but where is the email". Until now I've been using Google Desktop and/or the Google Desktop outlook plug-in to do my find, usually searching on the person or something about the conversation to find a list of emails from the person. Their search results are really weak, it give me the email from the person with a from line a subject, maybe a couple lines of text and an icon indicating if there was an attachment. This approach breaks down if you're looking for something in even the semi-recent past or if there were multiple attachments flying back and forth between you and the person. You have to poke around. Xobni solves this by pulling up a file list of everything that the person has sent you in an email when you select that person when they are selected - amen.

The other problem I run into occasionally is trying to track down a phone number for someone. I'm pretty picky who I put in my contact list in Outlook but at the same time I need to find a phone number. Xobni automatically extracts phone numbers from all the email someone has sent me and displays it with a Skype tool menu. And if I have a phone number for the person in my contacts, it displays that.

Here is their little demo video that is pretty thorough:

Check it out, I'm pretty happy so far (Day 3). The Performance is good on my desktop, a little lack-luster on my laptop, but it doesn't hang up Outlook. There is a bunch more to it that I've left out and am still discovering, but I think they hit the nail on the head. I don't usually gush about stuff, but digging around Outlook has got to be one of my least favorite things ever, and this may keep me from having to do it ever again. Whoop Whoop! Give me a week or so and I'll place it in my top 5 tools of now.
hat tip to Drit for pointing it my way