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Elements of Notes®
The IBM® Notes® user interface is comprised of views menus, toolbars, navigation panes, and a sidebar that you can use for easy access to some frequently used applications.
Using the Discover page
IBM® Notes® opens to the Discover page by default, unless you set up Notes to open to an application, such as Mail or Calendar, or to a customized home page. The default Discover page is a central location from which you can find targeted Notes client information more quickly and easily, including new features in the release, introductory material for new users, and helpful hints and tips. There is also a Quick Links tab that allows you to launch your workspace, Mail, Calendar, and other Notes applications you have recently used, in addition to providing links to other resources, such as the Notes and Domino wiki.
How do I customize my home page?
Once you have created a home page, you can change the content and rearrange the layout of the page at any time.
Making temporary changes to a framed home page
You can change the contents of a frame temporarily, for your current session of IBM® Notes® only. The next time you open Notes, the contents of the frame return to those you selected when you set up your home page initially.

Elements of Notes®
The IBM® Notes® user interface is comprised of views menus, toolbars, navigation panes, and a sidebar that you can use for easy access to some frequently used applications.
- Using the Open list
  Use the Open list to open IBM® Notes® applications, documents, bookmarks and bookmark folders. 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 IBM® Sametime® 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 end of the IBM® Notes® main window. As you work in Notes, system messages and features appear in the status bar.
- Working with window tabs
  Window tabs make it convenient for you to switch from one open document or application to another in IBM® Notes®.
- Preferences
  You can customize IBM® Notes® so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to using Notes® preferences.
- Accessibility features for Notes®
  Accessibility features help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products.
- Using the Discover page
  IBM® Notes® opens to the Discover page by default, unless you set up Notes to open to an application, such as Mail or Calendar, or to a customized home page. The default Discover page is a central location from which you can find targeted Notes client information more quickly and easily, including new features in the release, introductory material for new users, and helpful hints and tips. There is also a Quick Links tab that allows you to launch your workspace, Mail, Calendar, and other Notes applications you have recently used, in addition to providing links to other resources, such as the Notes and Domino wiki.
  - How do I change the default home page?
    You can easily change your current home page to another layout or to another type of home page you have created.
  - How do I create a new home page?
    You can create your own home page that includes information that is important to you from IBM® Notes® and the Web. To create a home page, you use the home page wizard.
  - How do I delete a home page I created?
    You can have more than one home page design, and you can delete any that you have created.
  - How do I customize my home page?
    Once you have created a home page, you can change the content and rearrange the layout of the page at any time.
    - Refreshing home page content
      If you make changes in an application that is also displayed on a home page, you must refresh its frame on the home page to see those changes reflected on the home page.
    - Making temporary changes to a framed home page
      You can change the contents of a frame temporarily, for your current session of IBM® Notes® only. The next time you open Notes, the contents of the frame return to those you selected when you set up your home page initially.
    - Making permanent changes to a framed home page
      You can change the frames you display in your home page after you have created it.
    - Editing a personal home page
      You can change the type of content for some of the fields on personal home pages.
    - Displaying Tips of the Day or New Item buttons
      On the Basics With Calendar home page, you can display Tips of the Day, which are helpful hints for using IBM® Notes®. You can also display the New Item buttons, which you can use to create new Mail memos, Calendar entries, Contacts, To Do items, or notebook entries directly from your home page.
    - Setting your notebook options from a home page
      Once you create a notebook application, you can access your notebook by clicking the Notebook button from a home page. You set your notebook from either a Basics or a Basics with Calendar home page.
    - Using the My Work home page
      You can replace the default IBM® Notes® home page with another type of home page called My Work. My Work has three portal-like tabs that are divided into multiple panes that display your Mail, Calendar, To Do list, and so on.
- Using the Notes workspace
  The IBM® Notes® workspace, the legacy user interface for Notes, displays pages containing Notes application icons.
- Using bookmarks - linking to documents and applications
  Bookmarks are links that point to IBM® Notes® applications, views, documents, or Internet elements, such as Web pages and news groups. Bookmark folders organize your bookmarks. They can contain bookmarks or more folders.
- Notes views and folders
  Views display specific documents with similar criteria. For example, your Mail has an All Documents view that displays every document contained in the mail application, and a Sent view that displays only documents that you sent.
- Printing
  You print a single document or multiple documents at the same time. You can also print views (lists of documents in an IBM® Notes® application) and the framesets found in both Notes and the Web.

Making temporary changes to a framed home page

You can change the contents of a frame temporarily, for your current session of IBM® Notes® only. The next time you open Notes®, the contents of the frame return to those you selected when you set up your home page initially.

About this task

Note: This option is not available from a Basics home page.

Procedure

Open a framed home page.

Click the arrow on the right side of the frame that you want to change.

Table 1. Frame content options
What do you want to do?	Then click
Link to Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Notebook, and To Do	Everyday tasks
Display your Mail Inbox	Inbox
Display the your Trash view	Trash
Display your Calendar	Calendar
Display your To Do list	To Do
Display your subscriptions so you can check your latest subscription notifications	Subscriptions
Display a Web page of your choice	Web page
Open any Notes® application that you have access to and display the view you choose	Database
Access and display any folder in your operating system Note: Not available on Macintosh or on Linux®	File folder
Refresh or update the content in a frame
Restore the original content in the frame	Restore

Results

Tip: You can resize any frame on a home page by dragging the border.