WriteFlow

Just a small update to fix a few bugs we missed with the last big update. There were minor problems due to the migration of the database which led to annoying behavior, especially during import of media information, PDFs and RTFs.

It won’t be perfect now, as apparently it never is, but it should be better.

The RTF import strips all the style information from the imported text. This is one of those things that are not perfect at all, and we will have to implement a possibility to manually match RTF styles to WriteFlow Element Types and to deal with RTF Headlines, TOCs etc. We could spend a lot of time on it, but real bugs and really important missing features keep us from things like that. If you want it changed sooner, you have to complain to us.

You can help us in our effort by sending in feedback or by even buying a license.

Finally. The latest update is ready now and this time we are really excited. We still see how much is left to do, but then we also see how much we have done in the last few months.

A few examples are

- Safari Extension for one click import of Websites
- Complete overhaul of the WriteFlow Element System with new much improved way to apply changes to versions
- BibTeX import with easy drag’n'drop of BibTeX text on the WriteFlow application icon
- individually configurable Z39.50 and Entrez (eg. Pubmed) Server access for media information download
- New display of search results
- Much improved stability
- Many fixed bugs (accents, spellchecking in quote editor, etc..)
- (Slightly) new icon

You’ll find WriteFlow Server Definition Files to connect to databases like Pubmed or Library of Congress in the Forum

For those of you who didn’t download the latest package from the website but used the update function from within WriteFlow, please download the Safari Extension from here.

And you might want to download some more Output Styles and two documents to help to get to know WriteFlow from here.

We just published the new update which brings great new functionality, i.e. fulltext search in PDFs and Webarchives.
We also continued our work on the chapters and headline system. It’s still not perfect and we have to deal with some more special cases and tricky bugs, but everything is moving in the right direction.

If you’ve just downloaded WriteFlow you can enjoy the new features immediately, but if you have already some PDFs and Webarchives in your old WriteFlow database, you’ll have to rebuild the search index to include those files in the WriteFlow Search.

Before you do so, we strongly advise you to zip the whole “WriteFlow”-folder, which you find inside your “documents”-folder. This is a precautionary measure, but it gives you the possibility to come back to the old state in case of anything goes wrong.

Just rightclick on the “WriteFlow”-folder in your “Documents”-folder and create a WriteFlow.zip archive.

So, to recreate the search index, just open the Preferences (you can use the Command Tool to do so), go to the “Advanced”-Panel and click on the “Recreate Search Index”-button. Depending on the size of your database and the speed of your Mac, this might take a minute or two.

Please let us know if you encounter any problems and include your e-mail in the Feedback Reports, we often want to recontact you to get some further information.

I hope you enjoy WriteFlow as much as we do!
Georg

We’ve just published a very important update which improves liability and usability a great deal. Our work is far from finished, but we are happy about this important step forward.

New database, do not interrupt migration during restart

[feature:] Inspector for opitonal dataview added
[feature:] "New element type" in Command Tool
[feature:] "New element type" in Inspector
[feature:] Sente-Endnote.xml Importer added
[bug:] Numerous chapter bugs fixed
[bug:] Numerous headline bugs fixed
[bug:] Headlines formatting bug fixed
[bug:] Command Tool text field debugged
[bug:] Multiselection of elements debugged
[bug:] Quickview and edit view debugged
[bug:] minor fixes all around
[bug:] URL import bug fixed

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Some think that we published WriteFlow too soon because it is not yet as stable as it should be. Just to explain: We worked for two and a half years on this program before we went public and we just felt that it was time to receive more feedback.
WriteFlow is in many ways the attempt to push word processing beyond established paradigms, we needed feedback as soon as possible to know what is feasible and what isn’t.
We hope you appreciate following WriteFlow while it improves over time. Thank you!

We slowly add new features and work on fixing bugs. One thing I’d like to show to you is the possibility to work with quotes which you’ve already entered. Now you can just select them and use the “copy to” command to send them to the document and the chapter where you need them.

Furthermore, with a double click on a quote in list view you can open it in an extra window and change it easily.

We also included the possibility to see all the notes you added to a document at once. You can just switch from the footnotes-window to the notes-window with a single click.

If you feel that one issue is more pressing than another, please let us know!

In the WriteFlow forum you can find the first help pages. Please don’t hesitate to ask questions or propose new topics.

Forum

Just because it came up recently: If you want to try out WriteFlow, please make sure to do so with the latest version, which is, by today, version 0.906 beta. Please use the “Check for Updates…” command in the menu. If you have questions or propositions, I strongly encourage you to use the new forum. I do answer a lot of questions individually right now (which I enjoy and you should not hesitate to ask anything), but it would be nice to have some of those exchanges publicly available.

To answer publicly a recurring question: If WriteFlow beta does not yet meet your needs we will hand out extensions of the trial period so you can give it another shot when you come back later. Just write an e-mail an tell us what keeps you from committing.