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Welcome
Using the Discover page
HCL 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.
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 HCL 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.

What's new in HCL Notes 14
Learn about the many new features and enhancements in HCL Notes 14.
About HCL Notes
The following topics provide information about HCL Notes.
Elements of Notes®
The HCL 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
HCL 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.
- 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 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 HCL 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 HCL Notes® workspace, the legacy user interface for Notes, displays pages containing Notes application icons.
Using bookmarks
Bookmarks are links that point to HCL 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 HCL Notes® application) and the framesets found in both Notes and the Web.
Getting Started - Advanced
The topics in this section have been written for more advanced Notes users.
Tasks
The following topics provide details for common tasks in HCL Notes.
Mail
You can send and answer email, create signatures, and customize the look of your Inbox. You can also do things, like cancel an email sent by mistake or set up out of office notifications.
Calendar
You can schedule meetings, manage your schedule, add other calendars, and more.
To Do
You can keep track of what you need to do, and assign tasks to others.
Contacts
You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
Notes applications
An HCL Notes® application contains information about a particular area of interest, such as the forms and policy documents for a department, or it might contain documents of a similar type, such as email messages. In addition, some companies create "discussion applications," where employees can post responses to particular topics.
Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
Locations and accounts
This topic describes connections to servers, ways to connect to servers, and things you should know before setting up a server connection.
Automating tasks using simple agents
You can program Notes® to perform tasks automatically using agents (also known as macros). Agents can help you perform repetitive tasks, such as managing documents and sending memos.
Sharing information with other applications
You can share files and graphics between HCL Notes® and other applications using a number of different techniques.
Notes roaming user
As a Notes® roaming user, you can log in to and use Notes from any computer in your organization on which Notes is installed, and use your personal data while doing so. Your personal data includes many of your Notes preferences and personal information such as your contacts, bookmarks, notebook, feeds subscriptions, and optionally your Notes workspace. Notes widgets also participate in roaming.
Replication
You can create an offline (local) duplicate of any HCL Notes® application you use. Such a duplicate is called a replica.
Search
You can use search to find documents, text in a document, applications, and people. You can also set search preferences for type of search query syntax and scope of search.
Securing your data
HCL Notes® security enables you to protect your workspace and data at all times, so only you and the people you designate have access to your data.
Widgets and Live Text
Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in a document, including mail, using widgets (.XML files) created for their use. Power users and administrators can create and edit widgets, and deploy them to users to engage a Notes® form, view, XPage, document or Composite Application, or third party services such as Web page, feed, or Google Gadget™, or automatically install or update a client plug-in for specific Notes users.
Error messages
Notices

Making temporary changes to a framed home page

You can change the contents of a frame temporarily, for your current session of HCL 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.