By this time you must be knowing about Xobni, if you are a user of Beta version of Microsoft Outlook 2010. Well, for those find the term unfamiliar, I want to give a brief description of Xobni. Xobni is a plugin for Outlook 2010. The Outlook plugin makes searching your inbox and finding information about your contacts fast and easy. Two types of Xobni — Xobni Basic and Xobni Plus are there. While, Xobni Basic is a free product, you have to afford $29.95 for Xobni Plus. Xobni Plus helps in advance search, filtering, indexing in Microsoft Outlook. It’s main feature is to clear up the cluttered Microsoft Outlook Inboxes.

There are two tab on Xobni. On this tab you get a graphical representation of when you exchange email with the emailer, other people who exchange email with the emailer, conversations being held with the emailer, and files that have been exchanged with the emailer. This tab really helps see what is going on with the person.

The Organize Tab in Xobni is like a small dashboard. You will see on this tab section, your Upcoming Appointments, and Tasks. There is also a section at the bottom of the tab showing people that you haven’t emailed recently so that you can “stay connected”.
At Xobni, we’ve had our own little Y2K in recent weeks (minus the $300 billion price tag) and we call it “Y2K+10.” When Microsoft announced that Outlook 2010 would be available to consumers in June, we were excited to integrate with the updated platform. Since then, a select group of us have been heads-down (others were slightly pre-occupied). Integrating with the new 64-bit flavor of Outlook accounted for a hefty portion of the effort, though users of all versions of Outlook + Xobni will now benefit from that groundwork.
Pros and Cons of Xobni

Pros
Xobni is most powerful in e-mail management. The search functionality, that allows viewing of most recent e-mail exchanged is great. The speed at which it shut out thousands of less useful e-mails from my Outlook Inbox is just amazing. All other features that I’ve covered above are the good things you can expect from Xobni.

Cons
While, I haven’t found any noticeable cons in Xobni, some reviews reported slight slowdown in Outlook performance due to use of Xobni. I hope, it would not be a big issue for Xobni users.