Comments for I Hate Lotus Notes

Comment on The Healing Process by Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:06:09 +0000

You can’t just use “SHIFT +” when in the email to expand all sections?
I thought this would be easier than individually opening each section?
When printing there’s a check box that says “expand sections” if you want the whole email printed.

Comment on The Healing Process by Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:58:07 +0000

If you don’t like using the embedded IE browser in Notes, can’t you just set your Notes preferences to “Use the browser I have set as the default for this operating system”?

I use Firefox and it all works fine

Comment on The Healing Process by Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:36:42 +0000

Did you try using Edit, Paste Special?
It will allow you to paste content in in a number of formats.

Comment on The Healing Process by victim

victim — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:58:32 +0000

Good to know! I will get some colleagues togheter and try to make some money with this Lotus gambling application

Comment on The Healing Process by victim

victim — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:49:43 +0000

When you find an ICT solution on internet in a forum about an issue and you want to copy and paste this in an email, then the freaking Lotus will copy for f*cking 5 minutes long the complete fontstyle and webdesign…
But even worse, in the meanwhile you cant do **** in Lotus or Domino.

Freaking waste of time.. I’m sitting here, waiting for Lotus to react, spilling years of my life, getting a flat ***. I guess when I’m 40 my inbox image is burned in my eyes. When you look into my eyes you can still read the mails I send yesterday.

make the hurting stop!

Comment on The Healing Process by Soundgardener

Soundgardener — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:29:06 +0000

Oh f**king NOOOOOO!!! Just started a new dream job after being out of work for 6 months, everything is great except they use NOTES!!! I can’t believe it’s 2012 and Notes looks just as awful as it did when I last had to use it in 2004. Good lord. Thank god I’ve moved away from technical support. I missed half of my email today cos I can’t tell what the **** is going on in Notes, and my job is so email heavy. Sigh.

Comment on The Healing Process by Gearhead

Gearhead — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:35:17 +0000

With the inspiration of co worker and this website we came up with the attached image to aid in the healing process. It earned some good laughs amongst my colleagues and I hope it will do the same for you. Keep up the healing process ihatelotusnotes.com and thanks from the boys at RJB.

Comment on The Healing Process by Iuga Ractor

Iuga Ractor — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:03:47 +0000

> DominoDev says:
> January 20, 2012 at 1:31 pm
>
> Try asking your Admin to turn on IMAP if
> it’s not already turned on and use any
> email client that supports IMAP

HAHAHA… that’s a REAL joke. Support doesn’t even respond (anymore, after years) my messages regarding IMAP boxes… it must be as hard to find this “turn IMAP on” config as it is to use this *hi* of mail client…

Comment on The Healing Process by What the....?

What the....? — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:36:39 +0000

I’d heard of Lotus Notes. Didn’t know much about it. Obviously, not enough about it to refuse a job which requires me to use it!
After two weeks of battling with this archaic program, and being told that it’s here to stay (WHY????) I’m looking for another job.
The last straw? I just want to put a link to a file saved on the server in an email. Without creating toolbar icons or typing hundreds of characters. I JUST WANT TO DO IT LIKE I USED TO DO IT IN OUTLOOK!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on The Healing Process by Paul

Paul — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:02:15 +0000

One more reason to hate notes. It keeps causing my MS Excel to crash. Thought it might be Excel (I do a lot of development including VBA), since Excel does have its issues. But it is a notes issue for sure. Closed notes, did some work and saved everything, but left Excel open. Opened notes to check email (never went back to Excel) and within 10 minutes Excel crashes. Tried the same with lots of other programs including some rather large CAD viewing programs and have no problems.

Notes is so buggy that our IT department has NotesKill.exe in the folder where we go to load new software so they can run it when they have to do anything on your machine.