Navigator

The navigator displays the views and folders that are available in the currently opened application. For example, in your Calendar, you can choose from several views, such as One Day or One Week. In your Mail application, you can you can create folders to organize your messages.

The menu bar displays menu choices that apply to an application or document. There is a standard set of menus, plus optional menus that change depending on the application. There is also a set of advanced menus that you can enable (View -> Advanced Menus). Context menus appear when you right-click an object (a message, for example) or area.

Toolbars are made up of buttons. You can set Toolbar Preferences to specify which toolbars display, and you can add or remove buttons from each toolbar.

Each window tab optionally includes an action bar, specific to the application or document open in the window tab. Action bars may include icons and text, or be comprised of text only. Items on the action bar are also available from the Action menu.

Icons display throughout Lotus Notes. To see a description of an icon, move the mouse pointer over the icon.

The contents of what you select in the navigator display in the view pane.

Each tab displays a page. As you work, you can open multiple tabbed pages. If the row of tabs exceeds the width of your screen, left and right scroll icons display that you can use to access tabs that are out of view.

The status bar displays action buttons and messages about current status and activity.

Views display specific sets of documents within an application. For example, your Mail application has an All Documents view that displays every document contained in Mail, and a Sent view that displays only documents that you have sent.

Bookmarks are links that point to Lotus Notes or Internet elements, such as applications, views, documents, Web pages, and news groups.

Help is available throughout Lotus Notes on all the areas you are using. In addition, context-sensitive Help, specific to the task you're performing, is also available when you press F1.

Notes Minder is a feature that checks your mail and monitors your Calendar alarms when Lotus Notes is not running. When Notes Minder is active, it displays an icon in your WindowsŸ taskbar.

The preview pane displays a preview of a selected message or calendar entry. You can also hide the preview pane.

The home page (previously called the Welcome page) is the first item that appears if you do not have a view set to open when you first launch Lotus Notes. The default home page gives you a central location from which to access your mail, calendar, contacts, to do list, and notebook.

You access the switcher menu using the arrow located at the top of your navigator. Use this menu to switch to another application, for example, to switch from Mail to To Do.

The workspace, the legacy user interface for Lotus Notes, displays pages containing application icons. The workspace is available and accessible through a folder on the Bookmark bar.

Using the Open list
Use the Open list to open IBMLotus Notes applications, documents, bookmarks and bookmark folders, as well as Lotus Symphony documents. The Open list displays icons and a brief description for each item.

Toolbars
Toolbars work with all the applications in your workspace. Some toolbars are context sensitive, which means that they change depending on the task you are performing.

Using the sidebar
The sidebar provides constant access to your IBMLotusSametime Contacts, Calendar, Feed Reader, and Activities. You can change which of these applications displays in your sidebar. However, depending on your organization, you may not have all of these applications in your sidebar.

Status bar: current state information
The status bar appears at the bottom of the IBMLotus Notes main window. As you work in Lotus Notes, system messages and features appear in the status bar.

Using the embedded browser
The embedded browser lets you open and navigate Web pages directly from within IBMLotus Notes. The Address bar keeps a history of Web addresses that you type.

Working with window tabs
Window tabs make it convenient for you to switch from one open document or application to another in IBMLotus Notes.

Preferences
You can customize IBMŸ Lotus NotesŸ so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to using NotesŸ preferences.

Related tasks
The Open list
The sidebar
Working with bookmarks

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