The Healing Process
The healing process is started by sharing your thoughts. Release your pain by sharing your experiences of Lotus Notes with me and the others here using the form below. Constructive criticism is of course encouraged (maybe we can stumble over some good ideas that IBM actually want to adopt?!?), but i know some good old fashion bitchin goes a long way to making me feel better, so feel free. Just keep it clean…..ish. Post your error messages, stories of woe (or successes) both will provide either hope or solace.
Now….. You ready?….. Vent away.
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Hi,
I was looking for a comprehensive list of elements within Lotus Notes application that work in notes client but fall over when the application is accessed over the internet a few that I know of @PickList, @Prompt and Hotspots with Lotus script on the form.
I tried googling for the same, also looked at lotusnotes forums.. but wasnt fruitful.
Many thanks
This website has made my day… I am not alone!! I have been forced to use Lotus Notes v6 by my new company, after many years of enjoying Outlook. I absolutely hate it.
I just miss outlook so much!
Why does Notes feel it needs to jump into my face after giving me a meeting reminder? Thank you for the reminder. Now stay in the background where I put you so I can keep doing what I was doing!
Today has been an especially trying Notes day. I was contemplating creating an “I Hate Notes” twitter feed, facebook account, or some other such to simply give me an outlet for venting and to document how often it annoys me. Out of curiosity of googled “i hate notes” and found this. Bingo. I am leaving this site open in a browser tab and I look forward to sharing the many times Notes does something stupid.
So far today:
– Notes ignored my attempts to delete two emails this morning. Pressed delete three times. Right-click/delete twice. Click and drag to the Trash. That got its attention.
– Notes decided to go off-line for a couple hours this afternoon. No problems with any other network service. Notes just wouldn’t connect with its server.
- Two canceled meetings failed to update in the Calendar and insist on giving me reminders for meetings that don’t exist.
All my working life I’ve used Outlook. I change jobs and now I’m stuck in hell of Notes.
Why can you can turn somethings on but you can’t turn them off ?!. Why do I have to wait 5 – 7 seconds every single time I click on an email ?. Why does Notes randomly add categories but won’t allow me to edit the list ?. Why can’t I change something in an appointment / meeting without having to delete it and re-create it ?. When I sync my phone with Notes, why do I have to wait hours or days for changes to appear ?. On that note (no pun intended), why did I have to pay for the software to ‘sync’ my phone ?. (Palm & MS provide sync software free). ‘Easy Sync Pro’ – what an oxymoron – it isn’t easy, it doesn’t “synchronise” and it’s not professional.
This website is great therapy but updates are too slow, it’s almost as though it ran on domino. It’s a shame but I’m just going to stop checking on the site.
I wish you all well and I wish Lotus Notes a long, slow, painful death with as much misery and suffering as it has given me all these years.
Wow, it’s my lucky F*****g day, isn’t it? Why the Bloatus Nads think it needs to pop up its Sametime/Meeting reminder alerts in front of everything else I’m doing? WHY? Why does clicking OK not make the damn alert go away, instead why does it bring the Nads window to the top? What the #$%@ makes Nads think it’s so important?
This is typical of Bloatus Nads, it thinkgs its the best software in existence…and the way Lotus fanboys on this site defend this piece of **** just goes to prove it. They think their (and LN’s) s**t doesn’t stink. From the forever lasting splash screen to hogging resources to popping it’s windows ahead of everything else to its cute little quirks like calling an email a “memo” and it’s completely non helpful error messages to the ****** graphic that shows up when you enter your password. F**K Lotus Notes.
To anyone who thinks that Lotus Notes needs to be redesigned from scratch… I say NO!! Lotus Notes just needs to be Beaten, Burned and then never even thought of any more!!!
Piece of **** Bloatus Nads. When auto inserting contacts into the address bar, sometimes it will add a comma after insertion (which it should, so that you can start typing the next contact’s name), and sometimes it won’t, completely randomly.
All I did was google search “Lotus Notes Sucks” and I found this page!… This is my new home page… But, all I have to say right now is: 26% of people voted that they “LOVE” Lotus Nuts!!!! ARE KIDDING ME!!! I would rather write email in Morse Code!!!
And I can say this… There is MOST DEFINITELY no other program like Lotus Nuts out there……. And thats because nobody is stupid enough to actually publish something so ridiculous!!!
…. I would just like to take the time to say something I’ve been wanting other people to hear for some time now………………… UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought Domino Access for Outlook (DAMO) was the good alternative as an email client.
I have somehow managed to get the DAMO installer (getting it from IBM’s site is difficult) and installed it on the following platform:
Win 7 Prof (64 bit)
Outlook 2010 (32 bit)
The installation is partially successful. To elaborate:
- The following works without any issue:
(a) Sending and receiving emails
(b) Creating folders
This means the above action in Outlook synchronise back with the Lotus server and these emails or folders can be seen in Lotus client or Web Mail.
- The following are the major issues:
(a) Marking an email as read or unread
(b) Moving an email from one folder to another
These actions in Outlook do NOT synchronise properly with Lotus server, which means you do not see an email marked as read or unread (as the case may be) or in the folder to which it is moved.
Does anyone have idea or solution to the above. I am desparate.
Try asking your Admin to turn on IMAP if it’s not already turned on and use any email client that supports IMAP
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Every time I hibernate my PC and then resume it, My lotes notes hangs, the task bar shows its prompting for password but where the hell is Password window…??
I HATE LOTES NOTES
So you want to move a calendar item to a different time slot. You right click the item and select ‘Cut’. Then you go to the new timeslot and right click and … there is no ‘Paste’ option.
Why? Yes, I know how Ctrl-V works, but why have cut, and not paste in the same menu? How is this anything less than poor, lazy design? Not to mention as I’ve previously pointed out, moving an appointment doesn’t move your reminder. WHY? What’s your explanation, LN fanboys?
I am an employee at Continental Automotive. For some time now we are using Lotus Notes as our email client (to the total disgust of all employees). Besides the countless times I encountered bugs in the tool, just yesterday we were told to update our profiles in the corporate phone book using Lotus Notes.
When I tried to log in to the corporate phone book page, I got an error message that the user name and/or password were wrong. I told our support desk about this. Later on I got an email saying that, in order to solve the problem, I had to log in and update my profile.
It seems that the Lotus Notes bugs are not contagious also for human beings working for support of the tool. Beware
I am an employee at Continental Automotive. For some time now we are using Lotus Notes as our email client (to the total disgust of all employees). Besides the countless times I encountered bugs in the tool, just yesterday we were told to update our profiles in the corporate phone book using Lotus Notes.
When I tried to log in I got an error message that the user name and/or password were wrong. I told our support desk about this. Later on I got an email saying that, in order to solve the problem, I had to log in and update my profile.
It seems that the Lotus Notes bugs are not contagious also for human beings working for support of the tool. Beware
Auch wir in der Schweiz hassen Lotus Notes über alles! Jeder der auch nur ein bisschen Ahnung von Technik hat, weis wovon ich rede!
I really want to take your survey, but I need additional alternative options beyond Outlook, Thunderbird, and Mail to fully express myself. Tin-can-and-string, semaphore, and morse code with a shiny, jagged piece of glass should all be added as choices preferable to the system my employer uses – Lotus Notes 5.0.8.
The only people who use this POS product are idiots that know absolutely nothing about Email servers/clients or those who have inherited this legacy trash and haven’t gotten rid of it yet.
I have found the following recent bugs with the latest version of a fully patched Lotus Notes client and Win 7×64:
- Copy and Paste works incorrectly
- Menu bar buttons and images are not visible to send, forward, etc email
- You need to enter your password roughly 3-4 times just to get to the place to change your password.
- Notes often hangs on the splash screen, only a reboot or killing all the sub processes allows you to relaunch it.
- etc. etc.
When I called enterprise support they stated these are known issues and the resolution is to upgrade to client version 8.6.x (which is not out yet).
Even though I am an Ashiest, I almost hope I am wrong, that way I know the lotus dev’s who make and maintain this application will have a special place in Hell.
Ah Lotus Notes, how can thee crash? Let me count the ways:
Open a mail [crash], reply to a mail [crash], open the calendar [crash]
But the sweetest of these by far is:
stand idle in the background for 5 f**king minutes until you sense the need for an important mail then [crash and burn]
Sweet agony
More Bloatus Nads bullcrap. We all know that you cannot forward meeting invites to others, you have to pester the organizer to do it (and God help the poor ******* to update the invitees on a previously scheduled invite).
Here’s another one. Say the organizer of a meeting makes changes to an invite and sends out an update. You see the update, but there’s no ‘Accept’ button on it since you had already accepted the invite…it’s just that the info was updated (i.e. the content). Well and good. So when it’s time to join the meeting, you double click the invite and Bloatus Nads will excitedly show off how helpful/awesome it is by informing you that the original invite has been updated (umm, yea I knew that). It will then ask you if you want Nads to “automatically process the updates for you” (automatically? wow, Nads is so clever and advanced! does the user even need to be bothered by asking such an obvious question?) So you click “Yes” and what happens? Nothing! You see, Nads just finished “automatically” processing the update for you. You want the updated invite to actually open up too? Well, double click the invite again, dumbass user! How the heck can Nads guess that when I double clicked the original invite, I actually wanted to open it so that I could get on with my meeting? It’s true what all the Nads fanboys have been saying all along…it ain’t Nads, it’s the users’ fault.
/sarcasm
From MS
“Microsoft has updated its Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, posting a service pack with a number of new features and bug fixes, the company announced Monday. …
The new service pack will require organizations to update their Active Directory schemas, which the company has admitted, can be a time-consuming process.”
So even with a simple service pack you STILL have to rip and replace !?!?! Nice one MS.
Why doesn’t LN 8.0 allow me to open databases (e.g. mail file, calendar, address book, and other databases) in separate windows? LN lets me do this with individual messages and documents. So why are databases limited to tabs in the darn main window?
I don’t know why yours wont, but all I have to do is right click on the database icon and select open in new window
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I have Changed my Screen name to DominoDev because there are at least 2 Steve’s that are Notes Fan Boys and Hopefully this name change will clear up any confusion…
As always if you are having issues with Notes feel free to drop me an email and I’ll be happy to try and help you address the issue. I will try to reply as soon as I can but please remember I do have a real job too. If I get a lot of bogus emails I will just cut off the email address.
sdp1793-noteshelp at yahoo
I don’t understand why scrolling down the message works normally, but scrolling up is much slower and not smooth at all. In this message I have opened right now it takes 8 wheel scrolls to get down but 19 to get up again.
Does this happen to you? When I open an email and I move the window (since often Notes sucks at positioning it correctly) then the vertical scroll bar does not work until I resize the window. The scroll bar resizes even if I only widen the window, then it works.
The scroll bars do not work correctly because they are there for the users, not to make the admins lives easier. Therefore whether they work or not does not matter to Notes.
1. I’m used to highlight word by double-clicking on them. It works in every application I’m using, except of LN, of course. Only LN opens a new message / reply when I double-click in the original mail. Stupid.
2. I don’t like the fact that I can’t make a folder under my inbox. All folders are placed in “Folders” which might seem logical but doesn’t help to keep my messages in order I’d like them to be organized.
3. Folders again. I hate it when a folder with sub-folders collapses when I click on it. There is that + / – sign on the left, so why clicking on folder makes the same?
Signature. I made my signature as an html file and used LN option to load it automatically for every message. Everything seemed to be fine but all of a sudden, LN started to insert my signature in way too bigger font then the rest of email was typed with. I tried to make a new html, edit the first one but to no avail. And I’m not the only one in our office with this problem. I just switched to plain text, but that’s not an answer to why LN changes things on its own will.
When upgrading a person’s workstation (New PC) how do I move all the replicas to the new PC ?
I don;t want to have to create the replica one by one
this was a prodigious part cheers for the help.
Just when I think my boyfriend can’t get any lazier…my Notes gets hung up before the program can even open.
I’s rather clean my boyfriend’s dirty underwear.
I am trying to install Lotus Notes at my Nokia e63 (symbian 60 OS)… its asking any server .. Dont know which server is askig this.. can you guys help.?
Why someboy want install notes in a movil!?!??!!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
I don’t really want to come off sounding too bitter about Notes.
Disappointed? Yes. Bitter, not really.
My history with the product dates back to dev work on the original OS/2 version at a time when, believe it or not, Lotus Dev Corp was larger in sales revenue than MSFT.
In beta, companies stepped up plunked down the $62k admission fee and were excited by possibilities for secure, global document sharing and collaboration. The very idea of syncing servers around the globe with the same content (we didn’t use that word then, either) was intoxicating.
For a frame of reference to that time, most of my clients were WordPerfect users and ran either Lotus 1-2-3 v 2.2 or Borland Quattro. Electronic mail existed only at the largest, mainframe shops and graphics layout on Ventura Publisher was quite a feat of skill!
And there was no internet or world wide web for most of us, either.
Lotus Notes was incredibly exciting but the luster came off immediately when Mozilla/Netscape brought ad hoc collaborative capabilities, without the $62k price tag.
The next body blow came with MSFT’s bundling of Word/Excel/PowerPoint for Windows at a price point which was less than one license for the character-based Lotus 1-2-3. It was over. We just never recovered from that.
The marketshare slide at LDC became precipitous with no Windows version of 1-2-3 anywhere near release and suddenly it was up to Notes to save the company- and, that didn’t happen. LDC never expected to compete with a tools vendor turned applications vendor and an ad hoc global network available to anyone with a computer.
Given it’s original scope and when considered in the context of it’s time, Notes was incredibly good and incredibly secure.
But, in the end, robustness and capability could never overcome the capabilities of the internet. And that is why I say that Notes has no real reason to exist.
Lotus Notes has way too much baggage – needs to be re-written from scratch. Novell Groupwise was way ahead of its time – too bad Novell died. I had 70 users on a low end computer that acted as server for over 3 years on Groupwise.
Novell hasn’t died. Groupwise 2012 is out which is seemingly also trying to play catch-up to what the Outlook/front-end offers end-users.
I was searching through the decompiled Notes code searching for how many times the string “password” comes up. And found something interesting. The Lotus Note 1-2-3 icon is in there. The Win 3 icon is in Notes 8.
Since Bloatus Nads fanboys always seem to have excuses for all of it’s crappy shortcoming, perhaps they will indulge me:
1) Every few days, Sametime prompts me to re-enter my password. Every time, I make sure that I check the ‘Save Password’ checkbox. Yet, like clockwork, a few days later I get the password prompt again. Why?
2) Say you schedule a meeting or an appointment and check the ‘Notify Me’ box to set up a reminder. If you happen to move the meeting to a different time, the reminder will still go off before the original appointment. Why?
Lotus Notes sucks. face it
Shawn,
To set the scene, I’m not a Notes fanboy & I prefer Google mail & calendar. In answer to your first question, your Notes configuration may be updated by the Dominos Mail Server & could be a company setting that your IT dept. has set. For me, Sametime does not continue to prompt. On the other hand our IT dept. will not allows us to save passwords for the VPN connection, which really does make sense. If the computer is stolen or infiltrated, the criminal could not get into my company’s network. Anyway, talk to your IT staff as they may be able to help with the Sametime password issue. And Good Luck!
If there’s a level of Hell reserved for Lotus developers (I mean the employees of Lotus who actually write/maintain it), then there must be TWO levels reserved for the Sametime developers (assuming they’re different groups). I’ve already chronicled some of the facepalm-worthy things here (like no “undo”… a concept apparently way too complex for them to figure out). But now I’ve hit another one, which is the topic of today’s rant.
2 days ago I needed to send a message to “John Smith” as soon as he came online. I did a search and in the search results right-clicked on Alert Me When Available. Later that day, it did indeed alert me when Mr. Smith came online.
So far, so good.
However, it has now alerted me EVERY SINGLE TIME he comes online. When I right-click on his name, there is no “Stop Alerting Me” option. There is “Alert Me When…”, which opens a small screen of “Current Alerts”, from which I can add/edit/remove alerts. There are NO current alerts to remove. So, am I doomed to get alerts on Mr. Smith for the rest of my life?
I’d love for someone to tell me I’m missing a simple, intuitive button or menu option or something… but I’m not holding my breath.
Additional: In the pop-up which alerts me to Mr. Smith having come online, there is a checkbox labeled “Alert me again”. You’d figure that leaving that unchecked would prevent future alerts, right? If so, then you clearly haven’t used Notes/Sametime for long.
Just delete and add him again mate.
You need to right click on Mr Smith’s name in Sametime and select ‘Remove Alerts’
Sorry I didn’t read your question properly.
This sounds like something is stuck.
Have you tried creating another ‘alert me when available’ and removing it ?