Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes 8 review - improved but still not user friendly Summary While the Notes 8 and 8.01 clients have indeed been notably improved regarding user interface and user experience, there are still far too many remains of the "old" Notes client when scratching the surface. It is my belief that end users will be somewhat relieved of their frustration if they are currently running an older version of Notes, but this client still has a long way to go before it reaches the usability and speed of other enterprise-grade e-mail software. Introduction The latest version of Lotus Notes comes in two flavours, the so called Standard and ...  Read the complete review

I’ve used a lot of different email clients over the years – Eudora, Thunderbird, Outlook, Evolution, KMail, Claris Mail, Apple Mail, even Pine. Apple Mail is my hands-down favourite (fast, simple, clean and reliable), while Thunderbird is my preferred option for Windows or Linux. I’ve recently been forced to switch to Lotus Notes 6.5 for OS X in a corporate environment. How do I put this politely? Lotus Notes is, by far, the worst email client I have ever used. It’s slow. Painfully slow. It may take several seconds to open a simple text message. A similar time is involved to change mailboxes. It doesn’t multi-task within itself – if it’s ...  Read the complete review

I've been a user of lotus notes for about two years and it was forced upon me because of joining a new company that uses Notes as their means of electronic communication. I'm not going to go too much into detail on the technical features, but I will give you my experience with the program and the features I work and how they meet my needs and the needs of the company I work. On my first opinion of actually opening Lotus I was a bit shocked at the design. I've noticed that a lot of big organisations use lotus notes as their means of e-mail, but I had never had any experience with it and the only e-mail applications I had been using was Microsoft versions. ...  Read the complete review

We use lotus notes as our email and diary system at work, having fully migrated from microsoft outlook a few years ago. The version we use is, I believe 7.5 and as well as diary, to do list, and email functionality it has an instant message system available. Sametime, the instant messaging service is excellent. It intergrates well with multiple IM systems (a friend of mine uses his through pidgin) and has some great functionality. It is also a good way of keeping in touch with people around the business, as well as getting instant answers to questions. The email system is pretty simple, easy to customise and simple enough to use. One problem I ...  Read the complete review

Lotus Notes is not my favorite office email and diary system, but it does get the job done. My company uses Lotus as its primary service for daily office activity, and once you learn the tricks, it's a tolerable software system! For instance, pressing the "insert" key on your keyboard will read or unread a selected message. And utilizing the hidden check mark fields in the far left hand column of your inbox will allow you to move more than one item into a folder at a time. Of course, it would be easiest if the check mark fields were visible, or even titled with a check, and if the read/unread option was included somewhere in the menu items, but they are ...  Read the complete review