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Go To Mail Option
After finding a mail with the Xobni search, I would like there to be some way to make Outlook
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Hi All,
This thread has been very helpful and we've introduced some improvements in this area. Please read http://www.xobni.com/blog/2009/12/10/... for more information.
Basically, now there is a folder icon in the message view that you can click to open that folder in Outlook. Unfortunately we have not yet been able to open the exact message in that folder list view. This has proven rather difficult in Outlook but we will keep investigating.
We have also introduced more drag-and-drop and right-click options. More to come!
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Inappropriate?Seems like there are two different issues here. One is the ability to work with the found mail, the second is to go to the folder the mail in.
When you find a mail in Xobni if you click it so that it is displayed on its own in the Xobni pane you can click the 'open' link (see below) and then do what you want with it (copy, forward, reply, etc. It can take several clicks to do this (find the conversation, select the conversation, select the specific message, click open). It would be good if there was a way to do this with fewer clicks.
I would like to see a way for Xobni to get the OL interface to move to the folder that the found message is in. Currently it is a two step process (1) use Xobni to find the message and see which folder it is in (2) use the OL interface (or another add in - I've programed Techhit's SimplyFile 'got to folder' to respond to ctrl-g) to jump to the folder.
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Thanks for your comments Nick. One thing I wanted to explain is that I know I can open, forward, etc... the mail from the sidebar. However, what I'm after here is the ability to copy that mail as an attachment and include it in another mail. I don't think that is possible now without going to the folder where it is and using ctrl+c there but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Other reasons I wanted to be able to "jump" to the mail from the sidebar were for things like moving the mail to another folder or being able to see mails around that one (in time). -
Inappropriate?Nick has summarised this perfectly for me. That is exactly the two 'types' of functionality I would like to see. -
Inappropriate?Yes this is a very important issue. I had an email in the DRAFTS folder, and did not realise it had not been sent.
So we need to be able to open that email in the folder in which it is situated. Or maybe in the heading of the email window the folder path should be displayed, like the folder name in Windows Explorer.
Otherwise love the program and use it it constantly
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Inappropriate?Chris - Thanks for your comments. I wanted to add one note here. You said that you would like to see the folder where the email is located in the heading of the email window. Xobni does show the folder name when you are looking at a mail in the sidebar.
You may know that already and are talking about something else but I wanted to mention this just in case.1 Comment Add a comment
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I'd like to see more info as I mouse over the message, e.g. I don't want to click on the message to see what folder it is in. One of the major problems for me after clicking on a message and then clicking on the back button I visually loose my place in the results window.
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Inappropriate?What is doesn't show is 'Sent Items' of which archive/pst/ost. I have several depending upon the age of the email.2 Comments Add a comment
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togandude - it does show which PST the folder is in if you hover your mouse over the folder name. It appears as a popup.
Xobni - I do definitely want the ability to drag that email somewhere else from the Xobni window (first choice) or by "jumping" to the appropriate location in Outlook (second choice). -
Personally, I would rather the "jumping" option because then I can do anything I want to with the mail. Sometimes, I might search for something but I want to see other mails around the same time for example in that project's folder (I store all my mails by project).
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Inappropriate?+1. Very often I have a similar use case: I'm replying to a message, but then remember that there is a related email thread. I open up Xobni search, find the related thread. Now I want to attach this thread to my other reply message.
Currently, I can do this with Outlook's seach capabilities (b/c it will show you the actual emails) but not in Xobni. And since I've turned off Outlook's search indexing, Outlook can take awhile to find the same message.
Here's my lame workaround:
- Find the message using Xobni search. Once I find it, I can now use stronger search parameters.
- Use Outlook search to find the same email with the more defined search parameters
- Attach email
It sucks, but it works. At the very least, Xobni should provide a way to "open containing folder" within Outlook so the user may drag it to wherever they need it - as email attachment, embedded object in Word or OneNote, drag it out to filesystem, etc.
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Inappropriate?Quote "Xobni does show the folder name when you are looking at a mail in the sidebar. "
On the In: field you do see in which folder it is in but why do they do not make a clickable hyperlink for this field which brings you directly to that folder and then also selects that message in Outlook?!?
Come that could not be that hard to program...
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Inappropriate?Yep, being able to click on the item in Xobni and navigate to the list item in the specific folder would be great.
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Inappropriate?Thanks all for these suggestions -- we are actively looking at this and hope to include it soon. Great ideas -- this is one of the best community threads so far! Thank you for the detailed feedback.
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Inappropriate?I wonder if the easiest way to implement, and a good way as well, would be to somehow have the "folder" listed in James Wise's reply above be a hyperlink to that folder.
It would also be very useful to be able to drag or copy emails that show up in the list of results into a new email as attachments. That is often a good use for Xobni - when sending an email to someone summarizing a discussion on a matter, to be able to quickly search for, locate and then attach those emails. -
Inappropriate?I can only second James here - it would impove the usefulness of Xobni's already great search functionality a lot!
It would allow searching for emails balzing fast and store them into their designated subfolder within seconds. Great suggestion!
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Inappropriate?From the start of this topic till now we are 3 months underway and still nothing of any of this is programmed in an update.
I do not know how many lines of programming you guys do per day but many users request this kind of feauture and still there is nothing on the horizon, not even a beta version?!?
Come on we are awaiting this feauture because it dramatically improves our way of working.
I’m hoping for this feature and looking for it in every update but not found
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You'll like the next release, I think.
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Inappropriate?Hi all,
@Josh - wow that sounds like good news indeed! :o)
@Lifestyle supplies: I also want this feature quiet bad - but at least I am not (yet!) paying anything to those guys and they still provide with a tool that massively improves my Outlook-working style. Therefore - a little bit more thankfulness and a little less pressure and exclamation marks ;-). From my point of view, the Xobni team does a great job.
Cheers!
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I know they do great work but we have Xobni Plus on 4 pc's so if you make a commercial program then we at least may hope they can build a feature in a month or so :)
Ohterwise let they make a pay per feature forum and let sign users in who want that feauture and also willing to pay for it. If there are many users then the price user would not be high and Xobni get paid :)
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Inappropriate?I love xobni's ability to find forgotten emails. I want to use this ability to reduce the clutter and delete swaths of old emails. If I can use this Move To Folder feature to move multiple selected emails to the Deleted Items folder, I'll buy xobni plus.
HTH
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Inappropriate?I agree, now that I can determine exactly which .pst file the email is in, I want to be able to go there directly with one click vs having to go into that .pst.
I am looking forward to buying Plus, you folks have done more to improve Outlook than MS has in 10 years!
jeff
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Inappropriate?Well the next update is here and again this feature is not in it?!?!?
So guys how much longer it is going to take to program? This taking way too long
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Inappropriate?A short but sweet idea for a new Xobni feature: as many people archive e-mails to folders, it would be great to be able to right-click an email displayed in the Xobni sidebar and choose 'Jump to Folder' from the pop-up-menu, which would navigate the user to the folder (nested folder) which contains the e-mail in question. I'm someone with over 2000 nested folders, the number going up steadily, and this feature would be again a time-saver.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
New time-saving feature: Jump to Folder.
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I am really looking forward to the possibility of selecting a mail message in Xobni and then being able to locate that mail in Outlook. The "Jump to folder" would not really work for me. One of the best things I did in the past was to remove the whole idea of folders to store different stuff. All my mail is stored in archives that are only managed by size: if it get's too big, I will create a new one. This is the best think that happened to me since starting with Outlook because it removes the requirement to think where you have to store something. But my system would really benefit from clever searching routines to be added to Xobni, so that I can quickly locate the email.
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Inappropriate?That is exactly what I have been trying unsuccesfully to do. I ccan't believe it is not part of the software. please let me know when it is added.
Is it available in the Plus version?
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Inappropriate?Dieing for a search tool like lookout used to be...and indeed your search is lightening fast. Not for a minute did I think that after finding what I wanted I couldn't then select some or all and move them to an existing or new folder, or delete them, etc.
It's like buying a new car only to find out the steering wheel is an option. Please give me back the last hour of my life.
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Inappropriate?Dieing for a search tool like lookout used to be...and indeed your search is lightening fast. Not for a minute did I think that after finding what I wanted I couldn't then select some or all and move them to an existing or new folder, or delete them, etc.
It's like buying a new car only to find out the steering wheel is an option. Please give me back the last hour of my life.
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Inappropriate?Hi All,
This thread has been very helpful and we've introduced some improvements in this area. Please read http://www.xobni.com/blog/2009/12/10/... for more information.
Basically, now there is a folder icon in the message view that you can click to open that folder in Outlook. Unfortunately we have not yet been able to open the exact message in that folder list view. This has proven rather difficult in Outlook but we will keep investigating.
We have also introduced more drag-and-drop and right-click options. More to come!
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Inappropriate?Also to be able to select the emails in the conversation thread, be able to right click and delete all of them.
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Inappropriate?When I find an email in Xobni, I want to view it in the reading pane without opening it as a new window. Opening a new window takes more time.
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