Out of the box, Notes supports web searching using Google and
Yahoo!, but adding another search engine is a piece of cake. And when we
say “search engine” don’t limit your imagination to Bing, AltaVista,
Ask Jeeves and Dogpile.
Notes has always been very good at searching, supporting a wide
variety of search parameters (and, or, not, near, sentence, paragraph)
and the ability to find words within file attachments (long envied by
the competition).
Sometimes users have a need to create a copy of a email and save it
as a file. In Lotus Notes you can now drag a message from your mail
view onto the desktop or into a folder and it will create a copy of that
message as an .eml document.
Big deal, I hear you cry… type-ahead addressing appears in just
about every e-mail client on the planet. Maybe it does. Notes suggests
addresses (people or groups) from your corporate directory and your
personal address book. But there’s two really cool features…
DRAFT – You can view a message grouped with all of its replies so
that you can read the message and replies all at one time. A message
grouped with all of its replies is called a conversation and
conversations save you the trouble of looking through your Inbox to find
individual replies.
The Notes calendar was hugely improved in version 8, but here’s a
nice addition available since version 8.5… the ability to overlay other
calendars onto your own.
Live text is Lotus Notes’ ability to recognise a set of characters
and associate an action with them. Out of the box Notes will recognise
people’s names and e-mail addresses…
Having discussed the urgent e-mails which may- not-be, and sender
colours, let’s look at the other feature that you can use for e-mail
prioritisation… recipient marking.
Have you ever looked at your inbox and thought that too many of
those e-mails feature the red “I’m urgent” flag? Yep, me too. Chances
are that the senders of those e-mails considered them urgent, but it’s
possible that you don’t…