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The brief description; A tool to make your own applications, formulas or agents show up in the context menus or Action menu of Lotus Notes.
Here is the longer description; If application developers wants to integrate their own applications into the Lotus Notes menus, their options has been very limited. Application developers won't see support for their own context menus until the next major release of Lotus Notes, ND 7.
Traditionally the developer can make a so-called Notes Addin Menu, which in essence is a Dynamic Link Library inserting one or more menu lines into the Action menu in Notes. The menu addin is specified by adding the path and DLL name in the AddinMenus-keyword in the main configuration file for Notes; Notes.ini.
When installed, a Notes Addin Menu application is sensitive to the user operating context, meaning that the addin "knows" when the user is working in a view, a document, and whether the document is in read- or write mode. The addin also knows which field- and field type the user are working in.
Below you see a sample of some Notes Addin Menus, being present in the Actions menu:
The menus in the red box in the figure above is Notes Addin Menus. Also note that one of the menu items is grayed out, indicating that the menu isn't available in the current context.