Table of Contents

1. General Overview ...................................................................................................... 3 2. Xobni System Requirements ..................................................................................... 4 2.1.1. Cached Exchange Mode ................................................................................ 4 2.1.2. Using Skype with Xobni ................................................................................. 4 3. Installation and Startup .............................................................................................. 5 4. Tour of the Xobni Sidebar .......................................................................................... 9 4.1.1. Search Bar ................................................................................................... 10 4.1.2. Person Profile .............................................................................................. 11 4.1.3. Extensions ................................................................................................... 13 4.1.4. Network ........................................................................................................ 15 4.1.5. Conversations .............................................................................................. 16 4.1.6. Files Exchanged .......................................................................................... 17 4.1.7. Invitations & the Invite Window .................................................................... 18 4.1.8. Share Fun Facts .......................................................................................... 19 4.1.9. Problem Notifier ........................................................................................... 19 4.1.10.Shortcuts Bar ............................................................................................... 19 5. Xobni Menu.............................................................................................................. 20 6. Other Outlook Windows ........................................................................................... 28 7. Keyboard Shortcuts ................................................................................................. 28 8. Xobni Analytics ........................................................................................................ 29 9. Xobni Data Files ...................................................................................................... 30 10. Xobni Service........................................................................................................... 30 11. Uninstalling .............................................................................................................. 30 12. Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 31

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1. General Overview
Xobni is a Microsoft Outlook Add-in that: Reveals previously hidden information about your email interactions with people Allows you to explore your emails by person and conversation Performs lightning-fast as-you-type searches Indexes your personal Yahoo! mail for integrated searching Gives you immediate access to files exchanged with people in your email network Creates a bridge between Outlook and online social networks and data services such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Hoovers Illuminates the overall flow of your email traffic via Xobni Analytics

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2. Xobni System Requirements

Windows XP SP2 or SP3 (32-bit only) Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit) Outlook 2003 or 2007 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher A minimum of 1GB RAM A minimum of 2GHz processor Preferred monitor resolution: 1280x1024

2.1.1. Cached Exchange Mode

Xobni recommends that users running Microsoft Exchange accounts should enable Cached Exchange Mode when using Xobni. While this is not a required setting for use with Xobni, if Cached Exchange Mode is disabled, you may experience degraded performance within Outlook. For further information on Cached Exchange Mode, please visit our online Support Page.

2.1.2. Using Skype with Xobni

If you are a Skype user, please upgrade to the latest version. Using v3.2 and higher will let you see your contacts online presence within the Xobni Sidebar. Furthermore, please make sure the Skype setting Show Outlook Contacts (pictured below) is unchecked. You will need to do this for all Skype accounts. Please launch Skype and select the menu pictured below to verify that the setting is correct. Not doing so can impede Outlooks ability to shutdown properly.

(Skype 3.x)

(Skype 4.x)

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3. Installation and Startup

You must have Administrator rights on your machine to install Xobni. Once installation is complete, Xobni will be available to all user accounts on the system. Please make sure that you meet the system requirements listed above before you start.

Installation
After downloading the Xobni installer from www.xobni.com, double-click the XobniSetup.exe icon to launch the installer. Installation will begin after you agree to the Xobni End User License Agreement by clicking the I Agree button. Youll be prompted for a location to install the application into. After clicking OK, the application will install its components, and youll be taken to the Setup Complete screen. If you do not currently have the Microsoft .NET Framework installed, our installer will display a warning message and automatically attempt to download this component from Microsoft. Youll need to be connected to the Internet during this time, or the installation will fail. From the Setup Complete screen, you have the option to launch Outlook upon hitting exit. Most people leave this turned on so they can check out Xobni right away. Youll also see the team of brilliant people who have made Xobni so awesome!

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Startup
Once Outlook launches, you will be presented with the first of three setup screens. The first dialog box gives you the option to turn off Internet Services. These web based services allow you to access LinkedIn, Facebook, and Hoovers data directly within Outlook. You are also able to initiate Skype calls and chats from the convenience of the Xobni sidebar. If you do not wish to use these services, please click No Thanks. Otherwise please click Enable to continue.

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The next dialog box uses CAPTCHA to ensure that you are in fact a human being and not a robot like in the movie Blade Runner. Type the two words you see and click continue.

Upon successful verification you will be notified that Xobni is ready to launch and begin indexing your Outlook mail. The dialog also has special instructions for those who wish to use Skype or Yahoo! Mail with Xobni.

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After you press continue, you will see the Xobni Sidebar load into the main Mail view on the right. If you take a look at the Outlook menu bar, you will also see a Xobni menu. Once Outlook has finished launching, youll see the Sidebar indicate that its indexing your email. The initial indexing only looks at the past 60 days of your email communication, so that Xobni has enough data to help you get started. If you notice that our Search feature isnt finding certain items, you may want to run the Index Outlook Mail command from the menu bar to complete the full indexing. During the initial indexing period, youll see various screenshots of Xobni in the sidebar explaining the highlighted features. This will be followed by a series of statistical facts about your email relationships, and you can send these to the people you communicate with most frequently. Clicking on the Click to send button will send that person an email with a link to download Xobni for themselves. You can customize the message body of the invitation email by clicking on the Edit Message button. This information can be reviewed at any time by selecting the Share Fun Facts menu item. Depending on how much email you have within Outlook, the initial indexing should take less than ten minutes. If you have an IMAP email account or have multiple large PST files, this can take up to twenty-five minutes. Finally, youll arrive at the Lets Rock screen, indicating that Xobni has indexed enough of your email to get started.

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4. Tour of the Xobni Sidebar

The Xobni Sidebar is comprised of many components, which are instantly loaded when you select any message inside Outlook. Search Bar Our search gives you insanely fast results from your Outlook data; of people, conversations, and email attachments. With our optional web search enabled, it can also return first hit results from the Yahoo! web search engine. Person Profile The person profile area displays the information of the sender of the currently selected email. Extensions Various modules that display additional information or perform an action in relation to the currently displayed profile. Network This is a list of all the people you have in common with the person whose profile is currently displayed. The Network panel is an easy way to maintain connections and keep track of who knows whom within your social network. Conversations A chronological list of threaded email exchanges youve had with the people in your network. Files Exchanged Catalogs all email attachments sent between you and the recipient. Invitations This interactive panel allows you to invite your friends and coworkers to download and check out Xobni. Share Fun Facts Another interactive panel that shows interesting information about your email relationships. Problem Notifier You will only see this panel if Xobni detects a problem in which case you will be notified of the suggested remedy. Shortcuts Bar The final section of the Sidebar contains some useful shortcuts to the Xobni Menu, Invite Window, and Support Info.

Most panels can be resized by clicking and dragging just above the title bar. All panels can be expanded to reveal more in-depth information by clicking on the title bar. Specific information on an individual item within the panel can be revealed by clicking on it; examples include a persons name or an email thread found in Conversations. Two navigation controls, Back and Start Over, can appear as you click on items within the Sidebar. As you continue to click through items, youll notice different panels stacking within the Sidebar. A button to the right of the Back button indicates the depth of the stacking. Clicking this button will reveal/hide the stacks. You can use Back to return to the last selected item. The Start Over button can be used to return to the profile for the currently selected email. Throughout most of the Sidebar, positioning your mouse pointer over specific areas will reveal more information, such as contact info or the first few lines of an email message body.

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Lets take a closer look at each of these sections and get a little more information on exactly how they work.

4.1.1. Search Bar

When you begin typing in the Search bar, a search results frame will instantly slide over. Our search feature identifies words that start with the letter you initially type, and refines the results as you continue typing. At this time, Xobni does not support the use of Boolean search operators.

If you have our optional Web Search enabled, the search results will include the first hit returned by Yahoo! web search. Clicking this result will take you to the Yahoo! search page, where you can see any additional search results.

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4.1.2. Person Profile

The Person Profile panel is updated when you select an email within Outlooks main Mail view. Here you can view their name, picture, email address(es), and phone number(s). In addition, you can view their company and position. If you have the Skype service installed on your computer, a Skype logo will appear to the right of the persons phone number. Clicking on the phone number will place a voice call to that person through Skype. Clicking on the Skype logo will give you the option to call, chat, or send a SMS to that person. You will also notice that the persons online presence on Skype is indicated by the icon.

4.1.2.1. Profile Editor You can use the Profile Editor to add or modify a persons information. You can open the editor by clicking edit profile located beneath their picture.

You can add or modify phone and fax information. You can change the phone number type using the pull-down menu left of the number field. If the person has a Skype ID, you can enter it as well.

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With Xobni, you can choose the source of a persons picture. You can direct Xobni to automatically retrieve the photo from Outlooks Contacts, LinkedIn or Facebook. You can also provide your own. To add your own photo, just click the Change button and navigate to the photo on your computer. A new window will pop up, allowing you to reframe the area youd like to display. Once this is correct, hit the OK button. Your changes will not be completed until you hit the Update button. In a similar fashion, you can choose from where a persons title and company are retrieved. Your choices are Outlook, LinkedIn, or manual entry. If the person is already in your Outlook Contacts, right-clicking their profile opens their Contact card. You can also copy the contact info, which is handy if you need to paste that into a message to another friend or co-worker. Finally, you can open the Edit Profile window, inside of which you can add a picture of them, and enter additional contact info. Merging and Unmerging Contacts Xobni will automatically merge contacts that use different email addresses. For example, if you have a friend that emails you from both their personal and work accounts, both addresses will be merged into a single profile. This makes it easy to manage their profile and analyze mail traffic from them. If Xobni fails to merge two profiles together you can perform this task manually. Simply select a profile and open the profile editor. Type the email address of the profile that you would like to merge with the current profile. The Update button will become active upon completion. Clicking it will finalize the merge. If you want to unmerge a profile into two or more profiles, open the desired profile and hover over any non-primary email address. Doing so will reveal a x (remove) button. After clicking the remove button, select Update to complete the unmerge.

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4.1.3. Extensions
Extensions enhance the Xobni user experience by providing additional profile information and interactivity. 4.1.3.1. Statistics The Statistics Extension displays useful information about the currently selected person such as the number of emails sent and received. It also will present a bar graph showing what time of day that person has emailed you. Lastly, you can see that persons ranking which is determined by the level of email activity between you and that person.

4.1.3.2. Actions The Actions Extension helps you to perform common interactions with the currently selected profile effortlessly. The Request phone number action creates a new email to the person, asking them for their phone number. When they respond, Xobni will extract the phone number and automatically add it to their profile. Phone numbers can also be extracted from signature files, or message bodies within an email. There are some instances when Xobni cannot accurately detect the number, in these cases you can manually edit the number to correct it. The Schedule time with action extracts data from your Outlook Calendar and auto-fills an email with times that you are available throughout the day. Xobni pulls schedule data from the Outlook Calendar to make sure you dont overbook yourself. For additional configuration options, go to the Xobni menu > Options > Schedule Time panel. The Email... action creates a new email to the person whose profile is loaded. This is more convenient than using the New Message button, as it auto-populates the To: field with the email address of the person you want to contact. You can also use a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Alt +N) for this.

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4.1.3.3. LinkedIn The LinkedIn module retrieves the currently selected persons public LinkedIn profile based on their email address. If one exists, Xobni will display their current job title and place of employment. The panel also displays their number of connections from LinkedIn. You can click on the View Profile link to open a web browser with the persons current public LinkedIn profile if you wish to learn more about them. If you yourself have a LinkedIn account, you can enter your login information into the extension giving you access to more profile information. The + Add button will take you to LinkedIns Add Connections screen using your default web browser. Clicking on Linkedin in the lower right-hand corner logs you out.

4.1.3.4. Facebook The Facebook module retrieves the currently selected persons Facebook profile. If one exists, Xobni will display their general information and photos in which they appear. You must have a Facebook account to view this data. You can click on the View Profile link to open a web browser with the persons current Facebook profile if you wish to learn more about them. The + Add button will take you to Facebooks Add a Friend screen using your default web browser. Clicking on facebook in the lower right-hand corner logs you out.

4.1.3.5. Hoovers The Hoovers module retrieves the currently selected persons company profile from Hoovers based on their email domain (e.g., xobni.com). If such a profile exists, Xobni will display the name of their company, their company summary, their location and phone number, and their revenue. Hovering over the company summary will reveal it in its entirety. Clicking on View Profile will open the companys Hoovers profile in your default browser.

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4.1.4. Network
Your network is based on the people youve communicated with using Outlook. Clicking on a persons name will load their profile into the Sidebar, making it fast and easy to find emails or attachments from that person. Xobni totals your list of contacts and displays it in the title bar. The small magnifying glass icon is a button that opens a filter bar. You can use this to search through your network, which is handy when you need to find someone quickly.

People contained within the Network panel are ranked according to how often they are included in conversations between you and the person whose profile is loaded. As always, Xobni is focused on your perspective within Outlook. The icons in the Network panel have different colors. Orange icons identify people you have directly contacted, and grey icons are for people youve never emailed directly. Distribution lists have their own icon, which looks like a group of people rather than an individual. This helps you quickly determine whether an email came from a specific person, or a mailing list that may reach multiple people. Despite the name, the Network panel does not use your computers network connection. There is no actual communication between Xobni enabled machines and your personal data (such as your list of contacts) is never shared with anyone else.

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4.1.5. Conversations
Xobni displays conversations using a threaded style similar to Googles Gmail. Emails are grouped into conversations if they contain the same subject and the same set of people in the To and CC header fields. Each entry in the Conversations panel will show the subject line of the email thread, a count of the emails the thread contains, as well as an approximate time that the last email in the conversation was sent. If the conversation contains an attached file, a small paper clip icon appears to the right of the subject line. The title bar also totals the number of unique conversations and also offers the magnifying glass search icon, making it easy to find a specific email thread. Clicking on any conversation entry consisting of more than one email will bring up a new Sidebar frame showing the conversation thread. The entry info will be shown at the top of the Sidebar, and the emails in the conversation are displayed below that. If the email thread is longer than the Sidebar can contain, theres a detail slider, which can change the visible size of each email entry. This way you can quickly find the right email that youre looking for. If the conversation thread includes multiple people, theyre listed below in a panel called People in Conversation. Likewise, if there were any email attachments in that thread, these will be shown at the bottom of the Sidebar, in the Files Exchanged panel. Each email entry in this view can be clicked on to further reveal the entire message. From here, youre given the option to do standard email actions such as Reply and Forward. The Open button will open the original email from your Outlook folders, and the View Conversation button will take you back to the previous view of the entire conversation. Aside from the standard email header info, we also show you exactly where in your folder structure this email resides. In the various email views, you can position the pointer over the message entry to see the first few lines of the message body. This is especially useful on long email threads whose detail is reduced within the thread view.

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4.1.6. Files Exchanged

The Files Exchanged panel displays all attached files that have been sent to you by the person in the profile, or from you to them. Weve all had times when we just cant find a specific file in our email, even when you know the sender. The Files Exchanged panel fixes that by displaying the files within the Sidebar.

Common file extensions, such as .jpeg, or .doc, are indicated by the icons associated with the applications used to view the attachments. You can use the right-click menu to open the attachment directly from within the panel, save the attachment, or open the email containing the attachment, allowing you to read the original message body. You can also grab an attachment from within the panel, and drag it to an email, to the desktop, or to any open folder!

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4.1.7. Invitations & the Invite Window

This panel appears after installation and allows you to invite friends to download Xobni. If you click anywhere inside the panel, the Invite Window will pop open, displaying a list of email addresses of people you communicate with. You can close this panel by hitting the X button in the title bar, and reopen it at any time by using the Options tab in the Xobni menu (provided that you still have invites remaining).

In the Choose Friends panel, you can click the checkboxes on the left to select people to invite. The list thats displayed is based on your 50 most frequent contacts who also happen to be Outlook users. If Xobni does not detect any Outlook users when we index your email, then the window will appear empty. Likewise, if we detect less than 50 contacts, then well only display the number detected. If you dont see a persons email address in the list, you can enter it in the field below, click Add, and theyll be added to the list. If you want to personalize the message before sending it, you can do that in the Add a note field. Once youve taken all these steps, you can hit the Send Invites button to share Xobni with your friends! It is possible, in some cases, that the Invite window will be disabled. You may have run out of invitations, or Xobni may have stopped shipping invitations from our server. It does not indicate that there is a problem with Xobni.

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4.1.8. Share Fun Facts

The Share Fun Facts panel will appear from time to time. Xobni combs your Outlook data for unique information about your communication relationships, and presents it in a series of slides within the Sidebar. This is the same information that appears when Xobni performs the first index after installation. From here, you can send emails to your friends and invite them to try Xobni for themselves. At anytime you wish, you can reopen the slideshow by selecting Share Fun Facts from the Xobni menu.

4.1.9. Problem Notifier

Xobni monitors your computer for common issues that may affect Outlooks compatibility and reliability. In the case that a problem is detected the Problem Notifier panel will appear to alert you to the problem as well as suggesting a solution. Clicking on Learn How will take you to Xobnis online FAQ item for the particular problem that was detected.

4.1.10. Shortcuts Bar

At the very bottom of the Xobni Sidebar, youll see a few buttons which serve as shortcuts to different functions in Xobni.

The >> button collapses the Sidebar, which is helpful when you dont need to immediately view Xobni data. The Gear button replicates the Xobni menu from the Outlook Toolbar. The Heart button opens the Invite Window, provided that you still have invites left to send. This button is disabled if your invite count is zero. The ? button launches a web browser and loads our Support FAQ so that you can easily find answers to any issues that you may be having with Xobni.

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5. Xobni Menu
Xobni installs a drop-down menu between the Action and Help menus in Outlook. The menu looks like this:

Lets take a closer look: View Sidebar: This toggles visibility of the Sidebar on and off. Share Fun Facts: Selecting this will restart the slideshow that appears during the first indexing after installing Xobni. This is another way to access the information presented by the Share Fun Facts panel. View Analytics: Opens Xobni Analytics, a program that lets you explore and visualize data about your email communication behavior.

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Options: Opens an Options dialog that lets the user change Xobni Settings. It contains five tabs:

General: Start Xobni when I start Outlook: Enabled by default, this option allows you to temporarily disable Xobni without uninstalling. Uncheck this only if Xobni is adversely affecting Outlooks launch time. Please keep in mind that changing this setting does not take effect until you relaunch Outlook. Product Improvement Program: Disabled by default; turning this on will allow Xobni to report anonymous statistics back to the mothership about which features you use regularly. There is no personal data that is transmitted to us or anyone else. Basically, this helps us determine which features are popular and which ones may be confusing, and in turn makes Xobni a more useful tool! Invitations: Click the Invite Users button to invite your friends and/or co-workers to use Xobni.

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Integration:

Yahoo! Mail: With this option enabled your Yahoo! mail can be indexed alongside of your Outlook mail. Please keep in mind that you are not be able to send and receive Yahoo! mail from Outlook. This feature does however make searching your Yahoo! Mail way simpler. Most importantly, you can now view your Y!Mail in the Xobni sidebar without upgrading to a paid account. Other Settings: Enable third party extensions: Check this option to enable the LinkedIn, Facebook, and Hoovers Extensions. Show LinkedIn details in your contacts profile card: Check this option to show LinkedIn information for the sender of the currently selected email in Xobnis Person Profile. Show Skype actions in your contacts profile card: With this option enabled, you can use your Skype account to communicate with the people in your Outlook mail in various ways including chat (text or video), phone, and SMS. Xobni will automatically find Skype IDs based on email address. Show Yahoo! Web Search in search results: With this option enabled, any search inside the Xobni Search Bar will look for results using Yahoos web search in addition to your email. The first returned result is displayed at the top of the Search Results panel.

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Schedule Time:

As you may remember, Xobnis Actions Extension offers a Schedule Time With... feature to easily schedule meetings with friends or coworkers. Using this tab, you can customize the days and times that youre available. This should hopefully deter coworkers from attempting to get together at 9am on a Sunday morning! Theres also a drop-down menu for setting the minimum amount of time between your appointments, which is helpful for people who need a mandatory 15 minutes (or longer!) of downtime before heading into their next meeting. For those who require 24 hour time formatting, this is also an option in this tab. This is handled independently of your system time settings, so you can easily schedule meetings with people in foreign countries without altering your system setting.

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Folders:

This tab allows you to tell Xobni which folders to index or ignore. The folder tree will present all your email accounts and mail folders, with a check box next to each of them. If the box is checked, Xobni will index that folder. The inverse is also true, so if the box is unchecked, Xobni will skip this folder when indexing. Holding Shift will select all folders within a parent folder. Hold CTRL to select all folders at the same level of the folder tree. Holding CTRL-Shift will combine those two modifiers. Hitting Cancel will discard your changes, so you can experiment with this feature. Keep in mind that if you choose to index your Deleted Items folder, then empty it, Xobni will lose those messages and they will no longer be displayed in the Sidebar. Additionally, if you make changes to the settings in this panel, you will have to wait for Xobni to completely index your mail before you will see the changes. You can force this process by selecting Index Outlook Mail from the Xobni menu.

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Performance:

The Performance tab is where you configure Xobnis CPU and disk utilization in order to optimize Outlooks performance while using Xobni. The settings slider has three positions. Default Performance - The Default Performance setting maintains all of the features and settings that are already configured for you. You should keep these settings unless you suspect that Xobni is running slowly or causing Outlook to respond slowly. For Slower Computers - This setting usually works very well when your computer is a little older and Xobni seems to be running slowly or causing Outlook to respond slowly. This setting disables all of our automatic real-time indexing. This means that when you get new mail, or move messages to different folders, Xobni will not update its indexes right away. Xobni will wait until you have stepped away from your computer (been idle) for a while before indexing at all.

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Bare Bones - This setting is only recommended if you are experiencing severe performance problems. This setting disables all automatic real-time indexing, disables Skype integration, disables our third-party extensions (i.e., Facebook, LinkedIn and Hoovers), and disables the ability to search for mail text. This means that when you perform a search from Xobni's top search bar, there will be no results from your mail data. Only people you know will come up as a search result. Performance Options Click the Custom Level button if you need to make adjustments to Xobnis performance that go beyond the three levels provided by the settings slider. The options here are rather self-explanatory.

Index Scheduling By default, Xobni will index all of your mail folders after you have been idle for a few hours. If you come back to the computer when this is happening, sometimes it may take a while for everything to become fast and responsive. Because of this, you may want to tell Xobni when to schedule its index. Pick a time when you can leave your computer on, but you won't generally be using it. If you choose "never" then you can start an index manually by selecting "Index Outlook Mail" from the Xobni menu.

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Index Outlook Mail: Select Index Outlook Mail if you wish to index all mail that is accessible within Outlook. This process can take quite a while, depending on how much email you have. Generally, we recommend that you use this feature when you wont be using Outlook for a while, especially if there are several gigabytes of email to index. However, once this is complete, all data in the Sidebar should be complete and accurate. Xobni will index any Archive folders and any additional PST files attached to Outlook during this process. At this time, Xobni does not index Public Folders.

Get Help: While we hope that your Xobni experience is always perfect, selecting this option will launch your default web browser, and load the Xobni Support FAQ. The FAQ has loads of answers to typical user questions, and is a good starting point for finding information. If you dont find the answer youre looking for, you can also contact our Support Team from that page via our online troubleshooter. Product Video: This will launch the short instructional video that highlights the various features of Xobni. This video is also available at the end of the initial indexing after you first install Xobni. About Xobni: This window contains useful information about your Xobni version. If you ever need to contact our Support Team, they may ask you for your build number or XMID number. The build number can be found in the top line of this window, and indicates the revision of Xobni that youre using. The XMID is a unique number, specific to your system that helps us keep track of support incidents that you may have. This window also contains clickable links to our Privacy Policy, End User License Agreement, as well as the Xobni homepage.

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6. Other Outlook Windows

Xobni will slide over the Last Viewed Email frame to show the contents of the currently selected email anytime you leave the email view in Outlook (e.g. clicking on Calendar in the bottom-left).

This is useful because you may need to reference something contained in the email you were last viewing. For example, a coworker asks if you can go out to lunch between 1 and 2pm on Tuesday. You can check your calendar to make sure youre available, and reply to the email, without having to leave the Sidebar.

7. Keyboard Shortcuts
Xobni provides the following keyboard shortcuts whenever the Sidebar is visible, and Outlook has keyboard focus: Focus on the Search Box: Ctrl + ~ Collapse and Expand the Sidebar: Ctrl + Shift + ~ Compose email to the currently loaded person: Ctrl + Alt + N Xobni provides the following keyboard shortcuts when the Sidebar has keyboard focus: Go back one level from search results or navigation history: Backspace Go back (when a filter bar is open): Ctrl + Backspace

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8. Xobni Analytics
Xobni Analytics is a powerful overview of your Outlook email traffic. Whether you want to see your total email volume on an annual basis, or just find out how many times your boss has emailed you today, Analytics is the place to find out.

The most obvious place where youll see our Analytics at work is within the Person Profile panel. The data thats displayed for the persons In and Out mail count, Rank, and Emails Received graph are all powered behind the scenes by Analytics. One of the most widely used features within the Analytics window is the ability to determine your own network rankings. Go to the Mail Traffic Report, and click the Rank column in the data grid at the bottom of the window. This should rank your network based on your email frequency with specific people. Unfortunately, covering the rest of the Analytics window is beyond the scope of this user manual.

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9. Xobni Data Files

The Xobni application maintains its own database for the information it collects from Outlook. These files are stored locally. In addition to these data files, Xobni writes error messages to log files which are useful to our Support Team if you ever run into an issue where Xobni is behaving badly. The data files can be found in these locations. Be sure to replace "Username" with your username: Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\"Username"\ Local Settings\Application Data\Xobni\Profile Name Windows Vista: C:\Users\"Username"\App Data\Local\Xobni\Profile Name

10. Xobni Service

After Xobni is installed, you may notice a new entry in your Windows Task Manager called XobniService.exe. This is a discreet background process that Xobni uses to detect and install updates automatically. When a new build is detected on the Xobni Server, it is downloaded in the background. Once the download is complete, the update to your Xobni installation will occur the next time Outlook is launched. Please keep in mind that XobniService.exe is launched upon startup of your computer and will run until shutdown regardless of whether or not Outlook is running. The Xobni Sidebar runs within the outlook.exe process, so there is no way to stop the Sidebar via the Task Manager. No personal data is transmitted to Xobni or any 3rd parties, by Xobni Service.

11. Uninstalling
In the event that you should need to uninstall Xobni, you can launch the Uninstall Wizard which can be found: Windows XP: Start -> Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Xobni Vista: Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Xobni Please keep in mind that administrator privileges are required to uninstall Xobni.

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12. Conclusion
On behalf of the entire team, thank you again for using Xobni. Hopefully youve found this lovingly hand-crafted user manual helpful! If you have any further questions, please visit the Xobni Support website and Community Forum: http://www.xobni.com/support http://www.xobni.com/community

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