Amazon.co.uk Review
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Notes 5 client software. For full functionality it needs to connect to a Domino server. Then it's a client for Web-based collaborative and other applications.
Notes' big feature is automatic database replication. Each time you connect to a Domino server your local and the remote database are updated. It also works as a standalone program. In this guise it's a tightly integrated collection of utilities: e-mail client, newsgroup client, Web browser, calendaring application, to-do list manager and address book. Notes won't install on a standalone PC without a Net connection.
You are intended to use it as a desktop. It opens to a configurable screen which defaults to show icons for the basic functions plus an e-mail inbox window, a search box and a calendar entry box. The interface is clean but looks as if it didn't start out on Windows. This makes the documentation important. Most of it comes in an unfriendly PDF file written by sysadmins for sysadmins. The built-in help system is also non-Windows standard and only slightly more useful than the PDF file.
In practice, Notes offers little reason to change from your current messaging software unless you need collaborative computing on your company's Domino server. --Steve Patient