Design: Lotus Notes

Anyone ever used Lotus Notes? No need for hands in the air, I'll pick you out from the gentle sobbing. I feel your pain. Notes has got to be one of the worst pieces of crap software I've ever seen in terms of design. It is woefully poor. Here are 4 of my favourite headscratchers:Alerts that aren't - Sometimes you'll set a reminder in notes, say for an important meeting at 4pm. A sensible program would tell you 5-10 minutes in advance, thus providing a "reminder" that you have something to do fairly soon. Not so with Notes. Instead it tells you half an hour after the event begins, by default. Genius; you're so late that there is no longer any point in going. Thanks for streamlining my life like that, Notes.Save - The Save button often, but not always, means "Save and Exit", kicking you out of the document after every save. This is despite the frequent inclusion of a separate Save and Exit button.Standardised Exiting - Instead of doing the same thing that every other Windows App has ...

21:57:38 November 4, 2005, Friday (PST) Source: Solitude

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