Lotus Notes
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“horrible to use compared to notes”
“Imo it was ahead of its time and heavily hamstring by Outlook dominance”
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“Lotus Notes was underrated imo.”
“I used Lotus Notes in the 00s and 10s and greatly preferred it to Outlook.”
Caveats and dissent
“It was mostly useless and overcomplicated most things.”
“No such feature in Notes- I remember having a hard time finding messages, and that its search feature would miss things somehow.”
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“I couldn’t figure out how to do anything with it”
“it was a horrible email client”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I was at LotusSphere when Lotus Notes 4 was announced and demo-ed. That got a standing ovation.”
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Data: lotus-notes.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 15
“We used it until about 2019 :S”
“horrible to use compared to notes”
“Imo it was ahead of its time and heavily hamstring by Outlook dominance”
“It was mostly useless and overcomplicated most things.”
“No such feature in Notes- I remember having a hard time finding messages, and that its search feature would miss things somehow.”
“This was a cool feature for distributing apps and data.”
“I couldn’t figure out how to do anything with it”
“Lotus Notes was underrated imo.”
“I used Lotus Notes in the 00s and 10s and greatly preferred it to Outlook.”
“it was a horrible email client”
“It was universally hated because it felt so clunky and old-fashioned”
“open Lotus Notes”
“It was great until everyone moved to the web, and then it got too clunky.”
“Notes client was clunky and not super intuitive”
“Notes was written by devils simply to drive men mad.”