The Bottom Line
It's a pity NEO Find does not integrate with Outlook a bit tighter.
Pros
- NEO Find lets you search all Outlook stores (PST files, Exchange, IMAP, Windows Live Hotmail)
- For each correspondent, NEO Find automatically sets up a smart folder showing all mail
- You can save searches, too, and find all messages in a conversation fast
Cons
- NEO Find could integrate with Outlook better (e.g. linking to conversations and correspondents)
- Saves searches are not updated in the background as new messages arrive
- NEO Find does not suggest to merge one sender's multiple addresses
Description
- NEO Find lets you search all Outlook mail (Exchange, POP, IMAP, Outlook Hotmail Connector) in one place.
- For each correspondent, NEO Find automatically sets up and maintains a smart folder that contains all emails exchanged.
- NEO Find lets you save any search as a smart folder manually, too.
- Filters (e.g. only unread or sent mail, or messages exchanged during a particular time) let you narrow results further.
- You can read found mail right in NEO Find or open it in Outlook. Shortcuts let you compose replies and forwards fast.
- NEO Find can show you the conversation to each message quickly by searching for mail with an identical (original) subject.
- In addition to people and search, NEO Find shows your Outlook folders. You can move messages freely across message stores.
- NEO Find synchronizes with Outlook and indexes mail in the background.
- NEO Find supports Windows XP/Vista and Outlook 98/XP/2002/3/7.
Guide Review - NEO Find 1.0 - Email Search Outlook Add-On
NEO Find finds mail; but that's not all. It sees more than mere keywords — such as the people you mail or message status and age. Automatically, NEO Find identifies your correspondents and creates a virtual folder for each one, showing all mail exchanged with them.
While it's easy to search correspondents and while correspondents are grouped into new, current and dormant, NEO Find could make out those most important in a more prominent manner. NEO Find is also not that eager to merge a contact's multiple addresses, so it makes no mistakes. You can always merge correspondents manually.
Not only contacts and keywords prove useful when looking for mail, of course. NEO Find sports a smart "Filter" toolbar that lets you restrict the mail you see to, say, unread, unfiled or sent mail, or to messages received in the last week. NEO Find lets you read found mail right away, but you can open it in Outlook just as quickly. Shortcuts take you to composing replies and forwards just as quickly.
Unfortunately, that's about it for integration with Outlook. NEO Find correspondents are not really linked to Outlook contacts (you can search and open from a correspondent's properties, though), and you cannot go to all mail exchanged with a contact from an email you view in Outlook, for example. You cannot even go to a correspondent easily while viewing their latest email in NEO Find.
What NEO Find can show you, though, is conversations, searching for mail with the current message's subject fast.
