No that isn't a typo, this blog post is to tell you about Xobni, a free plug-in to Microsoft Outlook to help you organise your email and keep track of conversations and files, as well as providing statistics on your email usage. It is available for download here:

http://www.xobni.com

Why Xobni? The quicker of you will have noticed that xobni is 'inbox' spelt backwards, and it really is clever. Once installed it adds an extra navigation pane to your Outlook view (Outlook 2003 and 2007 are supported currently), like so:

Each time you select a mail from any of your folders, information will be displayed instantly about the sender of that mail.

Statistics are displayed at the top of the screen indicating how may mails have been sent to and received from that person, and at what hours of the day.

If that person has an account with LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com), their profile can be accessed directly from within the Xobni toolbar.

The latest mail threads, or conversations, you have had with that person are displayed in chronological order, and any files that were attached to any of those mails are displayed for easy access.

In short, a work of organisation genius!