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Welcome to IBM Notes
Welcome to the latest release of IBM® Notes®. Notes is a powerful, multifaceted software for Microsoft® Windows®, Macintosh, and Linux® computers that gives you instant access to all the information that is important to you. You can use Notes to send and receive email and Internet mail, schedule appointments, browse the Web, and use powerful social and business applications in your daily work.
Using the Notes workspace
The IBM® Notes® workspace, the legacy user interface for Notes, displays pages containing Notes application icons.

Welcome to IBM Notes
Welcome to the latest release of IBM® Notes®. Notes is a powerful, multifaceted software for Microsoft® Windows®, Macintosh, and Linux® computers that gives you instant access to all the information that is important to you. You can use Notes to send and receive email and Internet mail, schedule appointments, browse the Web, and use powerful social and business applications in your daily work.
- What's New in IBM® Notes® 9.0.1 Social Edition?
  The following table lists features new to the IBM® Notes® 9.0.1 code stream, and tells you how to get started using those features.
- Getting Help
  You can get help that is specific to many of the tasks you are performing, or you can open complete Help on all areas of IBM® Notes®.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Advanced Getting Started topics
  The topics in this section have been written for more advanced Notes users.
- License information
- Copyrights
- Trademarks

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. (In previous versions, the Applications folder was the Databases folder.) Notes Basic client users, select the Applications folder on the Bookmark bar.

You can make your workspace look more three-dimensional and add texture to the background using a user preference. In addition, you can change the color of each tab and specify a name for each tab using workspace properties.