Attaching Lotus Notes links to Outlook Mail

My company has migrated from Outlook/Exchange to Lotus Notes, then back to Outlook/Exchange. With the latest migration away from Notes, we left some vital Notes databases in place. So now we use Outlook for mail, and Notes for repositories.

...Yeah, it's that kind of place. If you've been around awhile and know where things are, you are indispensable :).

Anyway, the great thing about using Notes for email and work was that you could embed all kinds of referral links in your email using "copy as link" at the Notes data and then ctrl+v paste in the email. The ctrl+v doesn't work in Outlook, which is a drag. So here's a work around...

Step 1 - Copy as Link
Go to your Notes document or database (shown below), right click and select "copy as link"

Step 2 - Paste Ctrl+V to a Text Editor

Note the interesting markup

Step 3 - Save the Text File with an .NDL Extension

Step 4 - Attach the .NDL file to your Email Message

...as shown. When the recipient double-clicks the attachment, they go right to Notes!