Centennial College uses Lotus Notes for its e-mail program and I can’t stand it. I have been working on the Mac platform since I started there ten years ago and I’ve never once had a good experience with Lotus Notes.

Here are the things I can’t stand about Lotus notes – particularly on a Mac but some apply to both platforms:

1. It hangs if I leave it open for more than 10 minutes
2. You create a new message by pressing command + m. ??? Why not command + n? Right … because that creates a new database! I’m always wanting to do that in my e-mail program!
3. It takes forever to launch
4. It automatically includes the attachment in the reply unless you specify that it doesn’t
5. Command + r, which normally replies to a message does nothing, unless you’re in a message and then it brings up the rulers.
6. It gives me error messages whenever someone has put a ruler in their message and I reply to it

There are a few more but they’re escaping my memory right now. I’ll add to this post as I think of them.