[Lotus Notes Sucks: Example 71]
More User Frustrations
Here's a great quote from all in the <head>:
Having worked for a big corp[oration] where software developers would actually have a second computer to run Lotus Notes (Which ran company email and other process[es] such as holiday booking, etc.) because [Lotus N]otes crashed all the time, [I] always wondered why they didn't move more systems/processes onto a web enviro[n]ment.
Fan Mail
I've received fan mail...
I can't work out how to set a 'TO Do list' item's status to 'done'. I can only delete it. I've tried everything, and the only thing that works is to not use the To Do list.
I'm doing just fine with Post-Its...
- AWESOME site! Thanks for the link. I had great fun sending this to all of my friends at IBM.
Create a new email and try to copy'n'paste some text from an IE window... you will probably get a "Cannot open the Web Navigator database" error. I find it hard to credit that something as essential as pasting text is broken. Pathetic.
New emails get "New memo" headings, then stay like that until they are closed and re-opened. It should reflect the subject field as it changes... if you're working on a bunch of new emails at once, it's very annoying.
Saving a draft email closes it. Since Notes occasionally crashes, and has no automatic save feature (Jesus!) it is obviously handy to be able to save work so it can be retrieved later. But when you save it to the Drafts folder, it closes it too, so you have to navigate to the Drafts folder to go and re-open it again.
No keyboard shortcuts for custom commands. If you create custom commands, as masochistic users sometimes have to do, you can bind them to a button on a toolbar, but never to a keyboard shortcut. V. annoying.
There is so much more...
And reference to #28 Creating A Hyperlink, Notes has absolutely nutso UI, true... what the hell were they thinking... but I dimly recall that Microsoft hold at least one wide patent on creating automatic hyperlinks from freely-entered text ... It may be that they can't do much here cos of infringement concerns, though of course developer stupidity is a far more likely explanation.
I agree with everything you have written, but I think that it barely scratched the surface of the putrid pile of defecation that is Lotus Notes Email/Calendaring/ToDo/SoulDestroyer.
Try making a todo entry. Try setting it to repeat. Assuming you figure this mess out and it in fact does repeat, when you no longer want the to do item to appear, try deleting it.
You can't can you? Apparently, it repeats for eternity, and because Lotus Notes has a God complex, is unwilling to let you delete the item, even tho' it says it is being deleted. I now have a to do list in Notes filled with an item I set to repeat from four months ago.
Even More User Frustration
Here's a great quote from FUZZBLOG:
Oh, and for anyone who is wondering, Lotus Notes f***ing sucks. The world would be a better place if it had never been born. If I could, I would go back in time and stab the pregnant mother of Lotus Notes repeatedly in the stomach with an ice pick, so that I could have the pleasure of aborting the fetus of Lotus Notes, and could spare the world the pain that was to come. When done, I would defecate on their corpses for good measure.
Thank you. I feel much better now, after a good rant. After all, if something is worth doing, it's worth doing right.
Conclusion
Lotus Notes sucks.