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®.

IBM® Domino® Mobile Apps is a mobile client for the Apple iPad that allows you to work with your Notes applications. It is available from the Apple App Store. Domino Mobile Apps includes offline replication and touch optimization and it extends your Notes applications with device capabilities. For more information, see dma_using_domino_mobile_apps.html.

Learn about the new features and enhancements in IBM® Notes® 10.0.1

Learn about the new features in IBM® Notes® 10.0.

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 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.

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.

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.

Window tabs make it convenient for you to switch from one open document or application to another in IBM® Notes®.

You can customize IBM® Notes® so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to using Notes® preferences.

Accessibility features help users who have a physical disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Limitations of IBM® Notes® are listed in the following table.

Your administrator can set up IBM® Notes® Smart Upgrade to send you a notification to upgrade your Notes client to a later release. Whenever you log into your IBM Domino® home server, Notes Smart Upgrade compares your installed version of Notes to the version the administrator has made available, and prompts you to upgrade if appropriate.

Your administrator can manage upgrades so that your mail file template is automatically upgraded after you upgrade your IBM® Notes® client. When you first start the Notes client after upgrading, Notes begins upgrading the design of local application templates, such as Contacts.

A set of advanced menus can be displayed for the advanced user. Options on advanced menus are targeted more for system administrators or designers, and include menus for tasks such as archiving or deleting Notes® applications, creating an embedded element, or debugging tools.

You can send, receive, and organize emails, and more.

This quick reference includes a screen image, which explains the basics in Mail, as well as tables that list other commonly-used tasks and shortcuts.

You can change mail preferences to personalize your mail experience.

You can manage junk mail, mail quotas, and meeting notices, to keep your Inbox cleaner.

You can let others view or edit your mail, or open other people's mail if they have given you access.

You can do more things with Mail, such as color-code messages in your Inbox or set up Out-of-Office notifications.

You can get help solving problems in mail.

You can learn more about what you can do with Mail.

You can schedule meetings, appointments, all day events, anniversaries, reminders, or event announcements on your Notes calendar. This topic explains some of the differences between these types of entries.

You can add a Google(TM) calendar, iCalendar, other person's Notes calendar, Notes Teamroom calendar, or Notes application calendar to your Notes® calendar. The entries will display alongside your Notes calendar's entries, in a color that you choose.

Categories are labels that help you organize items and find them more easily. You can use categories to organize calendar entries, to do items, contacts, or groups. You can assign category colors, so entries in a category appear in a different color on your calendar.

This quick reference includes a screen image explaining the basics in Calendar, as well as tables listing other commonly-used tasks and shortcuts.

A meeting chair can allow attendees to invite or propose other people to attend a meeting.

When you schedule a meeting, you can check to see when the invitees are available.

You can set your free time schedule, so people know the days and times that you are available for meetings.

You can create a meeting that repeats weekly, monthly, yearly, or a custom time you choose.

You can reserve a room or resource for a meeting when you create the meeting invitation.

You can add online meetings and save the information to reuse next time.

You can show or hide the preview pane, and you can display it on the bottom or the side.

You can set regional options to ensure that your mail and calendar display suits your preferences.

Instead of setting alarms on individual calendar entries, you can set automatic alarms for all calendar entries of a particular type, such as reminders. When you set an automatic alarm, you can change the default sound associated with the alarm, and specify how far in advance the alarm should go off.

Placeholders for new meetings, also known as meeting ghosts, are grayed out on the calendar by default and do not count as busy time in your free time schedule.

To keep your Inbox cleaner, you can have Notes® respond to meeting invitations for you automatically, prevent invitee responses from coming to your Inbox, prevent all meeting invitations from coming to your Inbox, or remove meeting notices automatically after you respond to them.

You can set a preference to determine whether, or how much of, your schedule information displays when other people schedule meetings and check to see your busy and free times.

You can let specified people open your mail, calendar, to do, or contact entries. You can also let people send, edit (including adding a follow-up flag), and delete messages, create and delete calendar entries, and create and delete to do items for you.

You can read or edit another person's calendar or to do list if the person has given you access to do so.

You can create shortcuts to someone's Notes® mail, calendar, to do, or contacts, if that person has given you access.

You can forward meeting invitations and notices you receive to a specified person or group, so they can manage your schedule.

You can create a calendar entry from an email or to do item, and all of the information from that email or to do item is copied into the calendar entry automatically.

IBM® Notes® includes predefined holiday sets that you can add to your calendar.

You can set a default site for meetings and create a list of preferred of rooms and resources to select from when you are scheduling a meeting.

You can set preferred conference call information that will display as an option in all meeting invitations you create. To include the conference call information in a meeting, select the Include conference call information in the Location option below the Location field when you create a new meeting.

You can clean up your calendar by deleting calendar entries and to do items that are no longer current.

On each page, you can print a day, week, work week, month, or selected time period on the calendar. You can also print a list of calendar entries, or print days, weeks, or months as a trifold.

Once you have saved a meeting and sent invitations, you cannot make it a repeating meeting. However, you can easily copy the information into a new meeting automatically.

If you set the preference to remove meetings from your Inbox after you process them, it may be difficult to find a meeting you have declined. However, you can use the Entries and Notices view on your calendar to find these invitations.

By default, Notes® uses the time zone and daylight-saving time settings of your operating system. If you experience problems with the times displayed in Notes, check the operating system's time zone and daylight-saving time settings to make sure they are properly configured.

Some instances of a repeating meeting may be rescheduled for different meeting times. If you created the meeting, you can synchronize some or all instances of the repeating meeting to be at the same time.

A team calendar is a calendar in a standalone mail file that enables everyone on a team to see the availability of team members and schedule meetings with team members. To use a team calendar, you create a mail file to hold the team calendar that is configured as a mail-in database.

You can create a group calendar to make it easy for you to schedule meetings with your colleagues.

You can import iCalendar-based calendars into your Notes calendar. iCalendar calendars include Apple calendar, Facebook calendars, and more. You can also export Notes calendar entries, so you can import them into other calendars.

To customize calendar rows and columns, click View in the menu bar, and then click Customize This View.

You can create, assign, and organize to do items.

This quick reference includes a screen image explaining the basics in To Do, as well as tables listing other commonly-used tasks and shortcuts.

You can set alarms for to do items, view to do items for today only, and more.

You can give someone access to manage your To Do items for you. You can also open and manage another person's To Do items if they give you access.

You can save important information about people, such as mailing addresses, birthdays, and companies. You can import contacts from other programs, and more.

This quick reference includes a screen image explaining the basics in Contacts, as well as tables listing other commonly-used tasks and shortcuts.

You can change the look of your contacts.

You can give someone access to view or edit your Contacts, or you can open other people's Contacts if they have given you access.

You can do many things with contacts, such as print them as labels or synchronize with iNotes and mobile devices.

You can get help solving problems in Contacts.

An IBM® 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.

This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes applications, which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.

More advanced Notes applications tasks include determining which applications to back up, how to use XPages applications with Notes, and creating a subscription to an application.

View, post, and comment on blogs created with the Notes blog template.

Quickly find some of the most common and more advanced tasks for Web logs (blogs) and how to get started doing them.

In addition to the initial setup and configuration, there are advanced views, forms, and tasks that you can use to manage your blog.

When connecting to servers, Notes® uses Location documents and Account documents to configure those connections. A Location document contains information that Notes needs, in order to manage your connections whenever you change the way you're connecting to servers; for example, your Home location may use remote access software in your operating system to dial your Internet server, while your Online location assumes that you're connected to a LAN. An Account document contains information, such as user name and password, for an Internet connection such as Internet mail.

This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes locations and accounts , which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.

You set preferences for your Location, Account, and Connection documents that provide the information needed by components to connect to servers. Preferences enable you to create, edit, or delete certain Location, Account, or Connection documents.

Learn to do additional tasks with Location, Account, and Connection documents, such as customizing Location settings, enabling Java applets in Notes, and using iNotes to access your Notes mail from the internet.

You can program IBM® 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.

These topics contain sample agents that you can use to better understand how to create your own agents.

These topics contain additional information about agent conditions and triggers, for more advanced users.

These tasks explain how to copy data into Notes, and how to share your Notes data with other applications.

This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for sharing information with other applications, which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.

These tasks explain how to import and export data between Notes and other applications.

These tasks describe how to work with object linking and embedding, and how to import or export formatted data.

Your IBM® Domino® administrator assigns your roaming user capabilities. The data that your administrator configures to be roaming-enabled replicates or syncs between your roaming server and the Notes® computer that you log into. The roaming server keeps roaming-enabled files and application synchronized for any Notes client on which you log into and work as a roaming user.

Your administrator can configure you to work as a roaming user, enabling your personal IBM® Notes®applications and settings to be roamed between any Notes client on which you work. When you log in to Notes on each computer on which you work, you will be initially prompted to convert to Notes roaming user status.

The following Roaming User topics are for more advanced Notes® users.

Replication allows you to keep a local version of a Notes® application on your hard disk drive. The local version is identical to the application on a server, so you can make changes to one version, and those changes will appear in both the local and server versions of the application. Replication is a great tool to have when working with large documents or applications, since the local version, or replica, of an application can open documents and views much faster than the server version, which has to open documents and views over a network.

This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes® replication, which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.

The Replication and Sync page lets you synchronize your replicas of IBM® Notes® applications with those applications on one or more servers, and lets you continue other work while Notes copies changes from one application to the other. This allows users on different networks, in a variety of places, to share the same information.

The following Replication topics are for more advanced Notes® users.

You can search from Notes to find documents, document text, applications, and people.

This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes search, which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.

Learn to use correct search syntax, and perform searches of your calendar, contacts, other applications, and the internet, all from within Notes.

Learn more about the Search capabilities of Notes.

Passwords prevent others from using your User ID. When your administrator creates your User ID, he or she decides whether it needs a password, and what type of password is required. Once you access IBM® Notes® for the first time, you should change your password to something that you can remember but is hard for others to guess.

Notes® shared login (hereafter shared login) allows you to start IBM® Notes and use your User ID without having to provide a Notes password. You only need to log in to Microsoft® Windows® using your Windows password. Your administrator controls whether you can use shared login.

Locking your IBM® Notes® ID prevents others from using Notes when you are away from your computer. Locking your ID clears your Notes credentials and drops all connections to Notes servers. You must log in again in order to take any new action using Notes.

Smartcards resemble credit cards, but instead of containing a magnetic strip they contain a microprocessor and memory. You can use a Smartcard with your User ID to login to IBM® Notes®, provided you have a Smartcard reader installed on your computer. Once your User ID is enabled for Smartcard login, you are prompted for your Smartcard Personal Identification Number (PIN) in place of your Notes password.

If you want to request a new User Name - for example, if you got married and you want to change your name - you must contact your administrator.

You can view all the names that identify you in Notes®.

A certificate is an electronic stamp, like a stamp on a passport, which verifies to a server that you are who you say you are. Certificates are stored in your User ID. When you first receive your User ID from your administrator, it contains a Notes® certificate. You may decide to use Internet certificates as well. (You may see Internet certificates being referred to as X.509 certificates.)

Every database includes an access control list (ACL), which IBM® Notes® uses to determine the level of access users and servers have to a database. Levels assigned to users determine the tasks that users can perform on a database. Levels assigned to servers determine what information within the database the servers can replicate.

When you enable encryption for a local database, IBM® Notes® encrypts the database using your public key from your User ID. You are the only one who can then decrypt the database because you have the corresponding private key in your User ID. Nobody else's User ID can open the database.

You can restrict access to applications you have stored locally or encrypt a document in an application.

You can protect your documents, so that only you and the people you designate can read them, even if others have access to the database your documents are in.

Using a secret encryption key that is stored in your User ID, you can encrypt a document that you are posting in a public database, provided the document contains fields that are encryptable.

IBM® Notes® uses a public and private key set to encrypt and decrypt data, as well as to validate digital signatures. The public and private key in a set are mathematically related to each other and are unique to your User ID. Your public key is stored in your Notes certificate. Your certificate is stored in your User ID and the IBM Domino® Directory. Your private key is stored only in your User ID.

You can protect your workstation by specifying different types of execution access for different people or organizational certifiers who run IBM® Notes® scripts and formulas. For example, you may give all types of execution access to your IBM Domino® administrator, but allow no execution access to unsigned scripts or formulas.

IBM® Notes® supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which makes communication secure for your POP3, IMAP, or LDAP accounts. SSL encrypts the data that is sent between your Notes client and the server you specify for your account. Notes supports SSL versions 2.0 and 3.0. By default, Notes negotiates the best SSL version to use with a particular server.

Your administrator may have selected plug-ins to be installed automatically with your client software. These plug-ins are signed with a certificate that is trusted by your client, and verified that the data they contain is not corrupted. Plug-ins signed in this way can then be installed without having to prompt you to accept them.

Widgets and Live Text is designed for three main user types -- end user, power user and application developer, and administrator. Policy and preferences control various access levels. Roles often overlap. For example, a power user may create and deploy widgets to end users while end users may use widgets that have been created for them, rather than create their own.

If you are a Widgets and Live Text end user who does not have widget creation or catalog access rights, you can act on Live Text in your active document or double-click an installed widget to start an action. Depending on your policy or preference settings, you may also be able to do other tasks, such as add a new widget to your client sidebar or My Widgets sidebar panel.

You can create and edit Notes® and Web-based XML extensions (widgets) and make those widgets available from a central catalog.