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by 422long 1817 days ago
First job out of college used Notes. Hated it.

Since then I've personally declined new work where Notes was the standard.

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Is this the same as (or based upon) the old Lotus Notes?

Had that at a company where I worked in the 1990s. It was kind of new/novel and interesting then. We used it mainly as a knowledge base and for internal forums on various subjects. IIRC required an OS/2 server to run, which was the only OS/2 box in the company.

IBM squired Lotus many years ago and has maintained the Notes / Domino product line ever since. The basic architecture has never really changed.
I believe HCL actually owns the Lotus software line now. At least that's where we go for Sametime and Domino patches now...
I did a few projects with it, it worked really well but we didn’t use it for email.
I had the same experience right out of university. After about 18 months the company transitioned to Office 365 and everything got better. It took forever to finally get rid of Notes because so many internal tools had been developed as notes apps and so they all had to be rebuilt.
Last workplace used that too, it was pretty much a meme.