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Lotus Notes

You can get your work done faster with IBM Lotus® Notes® software because it brings virtually everything you need right into view. You won't even want to work outside your Lotus Notes client.

Email, calendars, and contact management

Boost your productivity with intelligent email, calendaring and contact management - delivered within a modern, easy to use client interface.

Quickly scan your email in either a horizontal or vertical preview pane.

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View your email by conversations, where threads of related email - even deleted ones - are grouped together for a clear view of the topic under discussion.

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See a daily, weekly, and monthly view of your calendar. Elect to display confirmed, as well as rescheduled and unprocessed meeting invitations.

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Subscribe to iCal-based calendars and see a peripheral view of your entire day in one, easy to use interface.

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Access contacts by sorted lists or business cards. Share business contacts with platforms that support the vCard file format.

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Customize to increase your focus

You can customize your Lotus Notes client as you need to get your job done, with 3rd party and custom built solutions that are easily integrated into the Lotus Notes experience.

For example, you can customize your experience with widgets – extensions to the Lotus Notes client accessible through an always available sidebar.

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You can also create widgets to highlight patterns of text that perform custom actions when clicked, such as to show driving directions to an address, inventory for a part number, or conversions between currencies.

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A wide variety of widgets are available on the Internet to help meet whatever business need you have. For example, you can integrate widgets right into the Lotus Notes sidebar for direct access to business productivity applications such as LinkedIn (link resides outside of ibm.com), TripIt (link resides outside of ibm.com), Gist (link resides outside of ibm.com), and Tungle.me (link resides outside of ibm.com).

Find and connect

Find people online and collaborate in real time, right at the point where you're working. The Lotus Notes client blends presence awareness and instant messaging capabilities into the user experience.

Determine the availability of colleagues at a glance with dynamic visual cues in any application with names.

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Quickly chat with a colleague with a single click. Share important information — including links, and rich text — directly within instant messages.

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