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.
- Using the Notes workspace
  The IBM® Notes® workspace, the legacy user interface for Notes, displays pages containing Notes application icons.
  - How do I create a workspace page?
    You can create a workspace page to organize your links to applications. A workspace can contain up to 32 pages.
  - How do I name a workspace page?
    You may want to name workspace pages to help organize your work. For example, if you work with three types of applications -- applications containing human resources information, applications related to sales issues, and applications related to international issues -- you might enter the names HR, Sales, and International on different workspace tabs and move applications of each type to the corresponding workspace pages.
  - How do I change my workspace background?
    You can use your own background image for the workspace or you can remove an image an use the workspace tab color as the background.
  - How do I delete a workspace page?
    You can easily delete workspace.
  - How do I switch to a different workspace page?
    Click the page's workspace tab. To use the keyboard to switch to a different page, press CTRL and the left or right arrow.
  - How do I change the color of a workspace page tab?
    You can change the color of a workspace tab.
  - To compact your workspace file
    You can save disk space by compacting a file called desktop6.ndk, which is part of the workspace files. Compacting recovers unused disk space by removing references to applications you no longer have on your workspace.
- 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.

Using the Notes workspace

The IBM® Notes® workspace, the legacy user interface for Notes®, displays pages containing Notes® application icons.

Workspace showing applications

To open the workspace

Click the Open button, and then select Applications > Workspace. Notes Basic client users, select the Applications folder on the Bookmark bar.