Xobni Feature/Enhancement Thought
I just started using Xobni today. Wanted to see if it would really help me better manage the flood of emails I get every day. So far, no real big improvement. However, there is one little feature though that I think is kind of interesting. The little graph that shows when your contacts email you, and when you email them. For instance, this chart here seems to show most of my email activity with Adam is around 11am.
It’s interesting, and somewhat helpful, but if it were taken one step further, it could be super useful to me.
The idea is that if Xobni tells me when Adam is most likely to respond to me, I can plan to email him around those times and ideally have more efficient communication with him. But as far as I can tell, I can only view this little chart when I am reading one of Adam’s emails. Meaning that with maybe 100 different contacts emailing me per day, there is a lot of this email analysis data for me to process, and that data is scattered around throughout my contacts.
What if Xobni, knowing when it is most efficient for me to talk to my contacts, auto-sorted (or even just color coded or flagged) my inbox for me, based on when I should be emailing my contacts? It may be a *little* bit invasive, but I think it might be neat (and helpful) to fire up my email and have Xobni tell me to respond to Seth at 9am, Julie at 10:30am and Adam at 11am, without my having to look at and think about every little chart individually.
Just a thought…
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Hey Andrew – thanks for the feature suggestion. I’m glad you are finding some value in Xobni – and i hope that as you use it, you start to see how we provide context to what you are working on to help you process email more quickly. also, our search should help you find something we’re not automatically showing you very quickly.
As for your feature suggestion – our philosophy is not to force users to change behaviors. We want people to lean on xobni for help in their email, but not have to learn a new way of using email. It is a fine line designing features that help people without forcing a behavior change. There might just be a good way to do that with your idea.
thanks for using xobni!
-matt
Co-founder, Xobni