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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.
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.
Using the embedded browser
The embedded browser lets you open and navigate Web pages directly from within IBM® Notes®. The Address bar keeps a history of Web addresses that you type.

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.
  - Using the Open list
    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
    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.
  - Using the sidebar
    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.
  - Status bar: current state information
    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.
  - Using the embedded browser
    The embedded browser lets you open and navigate Web pages directly from within IBM® Notes®. The Address bar keeps a history of Web addresses that you type.
  - Working with window tabs
    Window tabs make it convenient for you to switch from one open document or application to another in IBM® Notes®.
  - Preferences
    You can customize IBM® Notes® so that it runs and displays just the way you want it to using Notes® preferences.
- 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.
- 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 embedded browser

The embedded browser lets you open and navigate Web pages directly from within IBM® Notes®. The Address bar keeps a history of Web addresses that you type.

About this task

You can enable the embedded Notes® browser by clicking File > Preferences, clicking Web Browser, and then checking the Use the browser embedded in this client option.

You can change which Web search engine the embedded browser uses in its search bar by clicking File > Preferences, clicking Search, and then clicking a search engine in the list.

Do any of these tasks:

To open the Web browser, click the Open button and then click Web browser.
To open a Web page, enter a Web address in the Address bar, and then click the Go button.
To open a link from a document, click the link.
To open more than one instance of the browser while using the embedded browser, click the Open button and then click Web browser again.
To bookmark a Web page, click Create > Bookmark.

From the embedded browser toolbar, do any of these tasks:

To go to the previous page, click Back.
To go to the next page, click Forward.
To stop the Web page from loading, click the Stop button.
To reload the Web page, click the Refresh button.
To return to the page that is set as your Home page, click the Go home button.
To print the Web page that is displayed, click the Print button.
To change the page settings for printing the displayed Web page, click the down-arrow next to the Print button and then click Page Setup.
To preview how the displayed Web page will look printed, click the down-arrow next to the Print button and then click Print Preview.

Note: If you prefer to use Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox as the Notes® browser, you can change this in your Notes® preferences.