Google Desktop Search, Windows
Search, and Copernic Desktop Search
have all flourished because “searching is
easier than filing.” And when you have
thousands of files and tens of thousands of
emails hanging around, it’s easy to see how
this argument makes sense. Microsoft’s
Outlook, however, seems especially prone
to letting you save emails (and tasks, and
appointments) that are tough to find, even
with a built-in Search feature, because
its search results generally lack context
and filtering the results takes too long to
keep up with your thinking. Lookeen 2010
Professional solves this problem (and others),
though it doesn’t exactly look attractive.
Lookeen adds a new toolbar to your
Outlook window, along with a Taskbar
Tray icon. From either spot, just type in
something you’re looking for (some words
from an email or someone’s name) and a new
window instantly pops up with email headers
and dates on the left and the email’s contents
on the right. Simply moving the mouse over
the headers instantly displays the message’s
contents—no clicking or waiting required.
This may not seem earth-shattering,
but contrast this to seeing a list of results,
clicking one, waiting a beat for it to appear,
reading it and not finding what you’re
looking for, clicking something else, waiting
for another beat, and so on. In other words,
it not only finds results fast but also
lets you scan through the results fast. It
makes a big difference.
Lookeen manages this by generating
and updating its own index in the
background, though we never noticed
a slowdown when it was working.
The Lookeen Window looks a little
dated and out of place against Outlook
2007 or 2010, especially in Windows 7’s
Aero desktop. There’s a compatibility
glitch with the 64-bit version of Outlook
2010, too. But for searching through
thousands of messages, we know of
nothing better or faster.
$39.80
Axonic
www.lookeen.net
Article From : Computer Power User Magazine
Search, and Copernic Desktop Search
have all flourished because “searching is
easier than filing.” And when you have
thousands of files and tens of thousands of
emails hanging around, it’s easy to see how
this argument makes sense. Microsoft’s
Outlook, however, seems especially prone
to letting you save emails (and tasks, and
appointments) that are tough to find, even
with a built-in Search feature, because
its search results generally lack context
and filtering the results takes too long to
keep up with your thinking. Lookeen 2010
Professional solves this problem (and others),
though it doesn’t exactly look attractive.
Lookeen adds a new toolbar to your
Outlook window, along with a Taskbar
Tray icon. From either spot, just type in
something you’re looking for (some words
from an email or someone’s name) and a new
window instantly pops up with email headers
and dates on the left and the email’s contents
on the right. Simply moving the mouse over
the headers instantly displays the message’s
contents—no clicking or waiting required.
This may not seem earth-shattering,
but contrast this to seeing a list of results,
clicking one, waiting a beat for it to appear,
reading it and not finding what you’re
looking for, clicking something else, waiting
for another beat, and so on. In other words,
it not only finds results fast but also
lets you scan through the results fast. It
makes a big difference.
Lookeen manages this by generating
and updating its own index in the
background, though we never noticed
a slowdown when it was working.
The Lookeen Window looks a little
dated and out of place against Outlook
2007 or 2010, especially in Windows 7’s
Aero desktop. There’s a compatibility
glitch with the 64-bit version of Outlook
2010, too. But for searching through
thousands of messages, we know of
nothing better or faster.
$39.80
Axonic
www.lookeen.net
Article From : Computer Power User Magazine
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