Please someone make email better! This is a huge problem. Gmail is okay, and it's the best web mail out there. Filters are really pretty useful, but as far a

Please someone make email better! This is a huge problem. Gmail is okay, and it's the best web mail out there. Filters are really pretty useful, but as far as I'm concerned, Gmail's two great innovations were 1) it's approach to threaded conversations. IMHO it's "The Right Way" to do it and 2) archiving email as opposed to deleting it. But, it seems like they've really stopped innovating, and it really leaves a lot to be desired. Labs features are nice, but not really game changers. Gmail's contact management sucks. I have hundreds of contacts in my contacts list from running the Hackers and Founders meetups, and I try really hard to write notes and metadata about each contact after I meet them, but it's really hard to get at those notes from an individual email. Xobni really has the right idea with this. If I could easily change the display of emails to threaded conversations ala Gmail and easily get the archive feature, I'd make the switch over to Xobni + Outlook in a heart beat. I'm more than willing to pay $10 -20 a month to someone that can solve this problem for me....