I know Notes is considered great software, and Ozzie is given a lot of credit as a result, but I’ll never understand. I had the displeasure of working for a bank back in 2007 (that deservedly ceased to exist after the financial crisis), and we used Notes, which sticks in my craw to this day as some of the worst software that I’ve ever used (and I regularly had to use Crystal Reports at this job).

Search was so bad that meetings with my manager frequently started with him turning his monitor so we could both see it, sorting his sent mail by recipient, and saying “now what day do you think I sent you that email” after which I would watch him scroll endlessly thinking “I’ll never get this part of my life back.”