I’m amazed. NEO Pro 3 is significantly improved over NEO 2.5--an improvement that far exceeds the normal advances in a mature application from version to version. At first blush I must admit that I feel blown away by Caelo’s ambition.
NEO has always been a compelling plug-in for Outlook. Email management is supposed to be Outlook’s main thing, but everyone who uses it to manage more than 50 email messages per day knows that it falls short in many ways. NEO has always been what Outlook was supposed to be all along.
The big deal flows from the way NEO handles the filing--it is all automated. Here is a good diagram of how it works:
What Caelo has done is to add even more functionality by combining multiple stores of email messages into a single NEO catalog, so all messages are filed into multiple folders automatically. They have added an awesome filtering capability for all views, so it is easy to further refine the automated organization. And there are many other wonderful features added to the application.
The product is in Beta 1 now and not really ready for primetime. Caelo’s Beta program is very user friendly and I am synchronizing my email after initial installation now. It has been synchronizing for the past 9 hours (Caelo says most users will be ready to go in 10 minutes and even users with many thousands of messages will be ready to go in a couple of hours). I guess I have many more messages than most users.
I can hardly wait to put this baby to the test.
