Through lecture, discussion, procedures, and tips, power users discover how to maximize their productivity using IBM Lotus Notes 6. The scenario-based guided practices and exercises reflect the daily tasks and challenges of Notes 6 power users. Following each lesson, students complete a checklist to help them plan and record the productivity related tasks they want to perform when they return to the office.

• Identifying options for emptying the Trash folder.
• Removing messages from the Sent folder.
• Removing copies of meeting invitations from Inbox, All Documents, and Sent folders.
• Removing attachments from messages.
• Archiving messages to gain space and improve performance.
• Creating mail rules to delete messages.

• Customizing your mail.
• Compacting your mail database to improve performance.
• Organizing and upgrading folders.
• Using mail rules to automatically file new messages.
• Building, customizing and organizing the personal address book.
• Creating a message with two clicks.
• Assigning tasks to others.

• Working with document links to open the view or bookmark the link.
• Quickly sending multiple document links.
• Changing the status line information for a document link to provide details of the document location.
• Adding bookmarks to views, documents, databases, applications and web sites.
• Organizing and managing bookmarks.
• Automatically displaying selected window tabs (for Notes databases or documents or Web links) when you start Notes.

• Determining the best tool for organizing and displaying information.
• Creating and editing a tabbed table.
• Choosing the right object to enhance your message text.
• Incorporating buttons and pop-up text in messages.
• Applying workflow administration to messages.
• Creating and using a message template (stationery).