lookout software

I know this will sound like an ad, but... If you use Outlook, you need Lookout, a plugin for Outlook that indexes your mail store (whether it's local or stored on an Exchange or IMAP server), attachments, your contact list, your calendar and even your filesystem and offers lightning-fast full-text search. If you're still filing email into a zillion different folders, you need to get on with your life, install Lookout, and get your head around a three-folder lifestyle: inbox, trash and "keepers."

Oh, and in case you're frustrated by the anemic "about us" page, know that Lookout is a product of Eric Hahn and the Inventures Group. Hahn has deep, deep roots in email -- he was VP of Engineering at cc:mail, and went on to found Collabra, which became the core of Netscape's collaboration products.

Comments

[Eliot]

It may be a cool product - but they're cruisin' for a bruisin' with that logo. It's so derivative (to say nothing of fugly) that it diminishes my perception of the company.

[michael]

yeah, not the greatest logo.

interesting usage note: i've really had to change my searching behavior within the application. outlook's built in search is so anemic that i would really limit my queries to one word, usually a sender or recipient, and skip message body searches. i've had to retrain myself to treat lookout like google -- feeling free (free! i'm free!) to use plenty of search terms, flags, etc. it's a bit of a mindshift...

[David]

This product seems great product is used by itself, but seems to be lacking if the user uses Outlook in conjunction with an IMAP/Webmail/mobile account.

After all, it would be horrendously difficult to look up a prior purchase-confirmation email via a cell phone by manually scrolling through the "archived" emails, instead of simply going to the IMAP "purchased" folder

[michael]

And that happens frequently? This "look up an archived purchase confirmation email on my cell phone" use case?

[Buzz Bruggeman]

Lookout rocks, can you introduce me to Eric, we would like to make ActiveWords work better with his stuff, as we have a killer idea as it relates to ActiveWords and Lookout..

Thanks,

Buzz

[Dow]

I know that this thread and the comments are old, but I just wanted to say that today, 5 years later there are products, which are a lot better than Lookout!

For example: Lookeen www.lookeen.net