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Notes Tips Podcast: Episode 1 - Getting Started
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Share your favorite quick tip!
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Sharing groups(distribution lists) in Notes 8.5.1 and earlier
Fri, Mar 30th 2012 135
Alert me when someone is available to chat
Fri, Mar 23rd 2012 153
Get fewer meeting notices in your Inbox: Update changes to meetings automatically!
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Choose any color for read & unread emails in your Inbox
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Set a default font in Notes 8.5.2
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 324
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Lotusphere
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Organize your Notes workspace with tabs
Fri, Aug 26th 2011 204
Get fewer meeting notices in your Inbox: Update changes to meetings automatically!
Fri, Jan 20th 2012 197
How to change the default browser for Notes
Fri, Aug 19th 2011 194
How to make sure URLs show up as links
Fri, Sep 9th 2011 180
Sharing groups(distribution lists) in Contacts
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Fri, Oct 21st 2011 177
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Notes Tips Podcast: Episode 1 - Getting Started
Thu, May 10th 2012 3:10p   Amy Smith
We're pleased to present the first episode of the Notes Tips podcast, with your hosts Julie Brown and Amy Smith. Getting Started We've been thinking a lot about getting started right with Notes. So [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes podcast
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Share your favorite quick tip!
Wed, Apr 4th 2012 12:12p   Julia Brown
Do you have any simple tricks you use all the time? We're collecting short tips (2 sentences or less) for Notes, so if you've got tips to share, leave them in the comments! [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Sharing groups(distribution lists) in Notes 8.5.1 and earlier
Fri, Mar 30th 2012 10:11a   Julia Brown
A few months ago, we posted about sharing groups in Contacts in Notes 8.5.2 and higher. Since then, I've gotten many requests on how to do the same thing in Notes 8.5.1 and earlier. While the process [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Alert me when someone is available to chat
Fri, Mar 23rd 2012 1:10p   Julia Brown
I just used this feature again today, and thought it would be something nice to share! Have you ever needed to chat with someone, but they are away, or in a meeting, or on Do Not Distrub? Instead of [read] Keywords: ldd lotus
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Get fewer meeting notices in your Inbox: Update changes to meetings automatically!
Fri, Jan 20th 2012 11:11a   Julia Brown
Today's tip is another thing to help keep your Inbox more free from meeting updates and notices. In Notes 8.5.3, you can set a preference to incorporate changes to meetings automatically, so if you' [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Choose any color for read & unread emails in your Inbox
Fri, Jan 13th 2012 1:12p   Julia Brown
We've heard a lot of feedback that you like unread messages in your Inbox to appear in plain red text...or bold black text...or green or purple... Well, in Notes 8.5.3, you can set any color for un [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes




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Lotusphere
Wed, Jan 11th 2012 3:10p   Julia Brown
Hello & happy new year, blog readers! As you may know, next week is Lotusphere, and we wanted to tell you about some opportunities there to give feedback on new and future products! Prizes in the [read] Keywords: ldd lotus lotusphere
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Help us improve our videos!
Wed, Nov 30th 2011 12:09p   Julia Brown
Our team has been working on some ideas to make videos more fun and helpful. We've done some example videos for interactive tutorials and a few types of interesting animations, and we're interested in [read] Keywords: ldd lotus
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Here comes Notes 8.5.3!
Fri, Oct 21st 2011 1:10p   Julia Brown
Happy Notes 8.5.3, everyone! Here are some ways you can get up-to-speed on what's new & changed in this release: For a quick look at the biggest new & changed features, watch the What's Ne [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Quick tip: Applications slow? Try another replica!
Fri, Sep 23rd 2011 10:10a   Julia Brown
Here's another tip for people who may be new to Notes: If you're working in a teamroom or other application, and it's slow, you can try switching to another replica. A replica is another instance [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes application applications
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How to make sure URLs show up as links
Fri, Sep 9th 2011 12:10p   Julia Brown
I've heard some people complain that, in Notes, URLs don't automatically turn into links. If you've had this problem, you'll be happy to know that there's a preference you can turn on to make sure URL [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Organize your Notes workspace with tabs
Fri, Aug 26th 2011 12:14p   Julia Brown
To help organize your Workspace, you can put the icons into groups and move them onto different tabs: To add a tab to your Workspace, right-click a tab and click Create Workspace Page: To change [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes workspace
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How to change the default browser for Notes
Fri, Aug 19th 2011 11:10a   Julia Brown
When you open links to web pages, in emails or other Notes documents, they'll open in whatever is set as your default browser in Notes. It could be the Notes embedded browser (which opens as a tab in [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Open applications in different windows (instead of tabs)
Fri, Aug 12th 2011 4:09p   Julia Brown
If you prefer to have Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Teamrooms, or other applications in separate windows instead of tabs, you can set a preference to do so. Click File Preferences. Click Windows and Th [read] Keywords: ldd lotus applications
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Sharing groups(distribution lists) in Contacts
Mon, Jul 18th 2011 8:13a   Julia Brown
In Notes 8.5.2 and higher, you can share groups of contacts that you've created. If you've created a group (mailing list) in your contacts, you can share that group with other Notes users, by sendin [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Feedback on videos!
Tue, Jul 12th 2011 12:12p   Julia Brown
We're looking into some fun animations, to possibly include in the videos we produce for help! Check them out here: http://tinyurl.com/ibmvideo71211, and let us know how you like them before Monday, [read] Keywords: ldd lotus
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Best practices for mail rules
Fri, May 20th 2011 3:10p   Julia Brown
We've highlighted rules in a few previous posts (Let Notes sort some of your mail for you and Keep the office in order while you're on vacation), and there are tons of other ways to use rules. But s [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes office
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Tell us how you like to learn about products!
Fri, May 13th 2011 11:13a   Julia Brown
We're conducting a round table discussion on learning materials a few weeks from now, so if you'd like to participate, read on! Do you like to watch videos to learn new software, new versions of soft [read] Keywords: ldd lotus
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Bookmarking Notes Documents in Connections
Fri, May 6th 2011 2:09p   Dwight Morse
More and more people are participating in Web 2.0. That is, they are going beyond being consumers of web content and are contributing as producers of that content. One way is to share links with ot [read] Keywords: connections ldd lotus notes web 2.0
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Updated link: How do you prefer to learn new software and new tasks?
Mon, Apr 25th 2011 12:12p   Julia Brown
The IBM Collaboration Solutions Information Development Team has put together a short survey to collect your feedback on how you prefer to get started learning new software, new versions of software, [read] Keywords: collaboration ibm ldd lotus development
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How do you prefer to learn new software and new tasks?
Mon, Apr 25th 2011 10:12a   Julia Brown
The IBM Collaboration Solutions Information Development Team has put together a short survey to collect your feedback on how you prefer to get started learning new software, new versions of software, [read] Keywords: collaboration ibm ldd lotus development
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Make your to do list more efficient and your Inbox cleaner
Fri, Apr 22nd 2011 1:10p   Julia Brown
If you're like me and use your to do list religiously (to keep track of all the things you need...to do), then you know that it often involves keeping track of lots of related documents and emails and [read] Keywords: ldd lotus
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Let Notes sort some of your mail for you
Fri, Apr 15th 2011 2:13p   Julia Brown
This is a tip that I use a lot, especially when I'm organizing big events, or if I'm getting a lot of messages about a particular project.... *If you want, Notes can sort your incoming mail into dif [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Tip for quickly searching in a view
Fri, Apr 8th 2011 3:11p   Julia Brown
We've got a quick tip for you today, to help you find information in views like mail, calendar, to do, contacts, etc. If you're looking for a particular title, subject, or person in a view, you can [read] Keywords: ldd lotus
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Get more relevant search results in the wiki
Fri, Apr 1st 2011 4:08p   Julia Brown
If you've ever wished you could filter search results in the wiki by product, category, tag, or content type (community articles, documentation, multimedia)....well, now you can! You can do all thes [read] Keywords: ldd lotus community wiki
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Tips for moving to Lotus Notes from Microsoft Outlook
Tue, Jan 25th 2011 7:23a   Julia Brown
Recently, we've been getting feedback that people want more help when migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Lotus Notes. So our team has started a collection on the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki to help a [read] Keywords: domino ldd lotus notes microsoft outlook wiki
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Tag calendar entries with categories and view them by category in Notes 8.5.2
Fri, Nov 19th 2010 5:13p   Julia Brown
To more easily organize and find calendar entries, you can tag calendar entries with categories and then view them by category. In Notes 8.5.2, you can view calendar entries by category, by clicking [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Easily remove and control Recent Contacts in 8.5.2
Fri, Nov 5th 2010 5:27p   Julia Brown
We've posted about Recent Contacts before--how they work, how to remove them, and more. See here for the past posts: More info on recent contacts We've got some nice changes to Recent Contacts in No [read] Keywords: ldd lotus
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Set a default font in Notes 8.5.2
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 4:30p   Julia Brown
Here's a fun new feature in Notes 8.5.2: You can set a default font to use for all emails you send. We had lots of requests for this feature, so it's exciting to announce that it's here now! Yay! [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Easily print or share wiki articles
Fri, Oct 22nd 2010 2:30p   Julia Brown
We got some cool, new features in the Lotus Notes (and Domino) wiki this week, and I wanted to share two features that are particularly useful. Now you can print articles more easily (and better)! Y [read] Keywords: domino ldd lotus notes wiki
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Changing the delivery priority of a message in Notes
Thu, Oct 14th 2010 2:25p   Julia Brown
Setting the delivery priority of a message affects when the message is sent from your email client to the recipients'. Using delivery priority can help prevent overloading mail servers. Low priority [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes email
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Getting help with Notes 8.5.2
Fri, Sep 24th 2010 9:44a   Julia Brown
Lotus Notes 8.5.2 has been released, with many improvements and new features (which we will highlight in later posts, naturally :)!! But one thing that you may have noticed is that the in-product help [read] Keywords: ldd lotus notes
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Previewing emails on the side
Fri, Jul 23rd 2010 2:38p   Julia Brown
Here's a great tip and a great video series too! This tip is brought to you by TipsInTwo. If you haven't heard of Tips in Two, you should definitely check it out. They have plenty of great videos, a [read] Keywords: ldd lotus
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Searching different website from Notes
Fri, Jun 18th 2010 10:59a   Julia Brown
You can use Notes search to search mail, calendar, other applications, or even Google...but did you know that you can add other sites to the list? You can add websites (such as www.ibm.com), so y [read] Keywords: ibm ldd lotus notes applications google
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Old-school document selection in a view
Fri, Jun 11th 2010 12:53p   Dwight Morse
In version 8, we changed the user experience for selecting documents. The new way to select documents followed the Windows model, using the Shift and Ctrl keys. While this is intuitive to new users [read] Keywords: ldd lotus




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