The new user interface of Lotus Notes 8 gives you easy access to the capabilities to get work done quickly and with high quality. Lotus Notes 8 helps make it easier to find the information you need to do your job:

· Tutorial page - An initial page presented to the user after the first installation or upgrade to Lotus Notes 8. This page points out the new functional areas in the window: the sidebar, the Open list, and the search center.

· Display menu - New drop-down menu for Lotus Notes mail and calendar view options.

· Thumbnail view - Icon to display open windows as thumbnail graphics.

· Sidebar - Rightmost column of the user interface in which application plug-ins appear.

- Activities

- IBM Lotus Sametime® software

- Contacts

- Day at a glance

- Feeds (RSS reader plug-in)

· Improved printing of tabbed tables - Ability to print tab labels and to print each tab independently.

· Mail recall - Option to retract an e-mail message that you sent to a recipient using a Lotus Domino server.

· Recent collaborations - For names, a new right-click menu option that displays a list of your interactions with the selected person.

· Intelligent type-ahead - The list of names in response to type-ahead addressing is sorted by frequency of use rather than alphabetically.

· IBM productivity tools - Suite of open standards-based office productivity tools for working with word processing documents, presentations and spreadsheets—included at no additional charge.

· Activities - Optional sidebar plug-in based on the activity-centric computing capabilities of IBM Lotus Connections software.

· Enhanced instant messaging integration - Sidebar plug-in based on the Lotus Sametime 7.5 interface. Advanced functionality including rich text, spell check, emoticons, automatic instant message history, and more.