…yet again…
OK, I suppose I’m into blogging about old tools at the moment, but what the heck.
The free X1 Enterprise Client (formerly X1 Desktop Search), the same engine that powers Yahoo Desktop Search, is a variant of something I used when it first came out, but then abandoned, for reasons I cannot remember. I think the problem was that it only indexed 90% of my emails, which I found too frustrating.
Well, I wasted a lot time trawling around for a very important old email. (I keep a lot of emails archived, as I’ve blogged before). Even with all the other great tools out there now, I don’t feel like giving up any more information to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo (not sure why: they now know more about me than I do myself). So instead, I (re)visited X1, installed it, and, even though at the time of writing it’s only indexed 37% of my Outlook archive, I impatiently typed in the stuff I was looking for. Two words did the trick (the recipient’s first name and ONE WORD of content). Presto-mundo. 19 instant hits, of which only 1 had an attachment… the very one I needed… buried deep in some impenetrable .pst Outlook archive I had stashed away… when was it?… oh yeah, August 2003 – 3 years ago. The actual date was not even close to what I had been guessing about and looking through hopelessly.
Great. I used to tell my colleagues “run, don’t walk, to X1″. Now I’ll say the same again. Other tools may be better/faster/cheaper, but (frankly) how is that possible? It’s free, and “fast-as-you-type”, and I’m a fanatical touch-typist! Get it. Immediately, if not sooner.
