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Flow - 1.5(EA4)

collaborative content and knowledge manager

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Selected Version: 1.5(EA4)
Release Date: 2005-03-31
License: Beta
Downloads (version 1.5(EA4)): 332
Downloads (all versions): 5,094
Price: $99.90 / $49.90(edu)

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Near-Time Flow is the breakthrough content and knowledge manager for individuals and groups. Flow allows you to author, gather, organize, share and publish the information you rely on - from documents and weblogs to web pages, images and files - in an intelligent and integrated manner. Flow incorporates a hypertext authoring system, web browser, RSS news reader and a weblog editor, all within a powerful collaboration platform.


Flow is perfectly suited for personal and group information management alike -- publicize your content through Flow's multiple publishing options or set up a Share-Space to grant multiple users the ability to edit, discuss, organize and use the same content. You can also securely collaborate by combining Flow with Near-Time's collaboration server, Near-Time Relay.


Flow offers powerful knowledge management tools for finding, organizing and utilizing information as it is needed. Flow's Digest pages aggregate diverse content on a single page by user defined settings. Flow's robust navigation system -- including navigation through time via the timebar -- enables you to quickly traverse the relationships between pages.The timebar combines with a change view to present a page's history, indicating what has changed, who made the change, and when the change was made.


All of the text in Flow (including web pages and RSS content and weblogs) is indexed and searchable across a rich set of zones, including all pages, pages per Folio, comments and names.

What's new in this version:

  • Folios have been replaced with Categories. Categories are analogous to what one might find in the blogging world, offering topical subdivisions of the content found in a Space. The categories associated with a selected space or person now appear as a separate listing in the bottom half of the drawer.
  • The Folios drawer has been reworked to offer more consistent organizational metaphors. The Drawer is now divided into three areas: 1. Views: A collection of built-in views such as Everything, Feeds, Drafts, and Unread. You can also add "Smart Views" that dynamically aggregate content based on one more specified rules. 2. Spaces: Spaces are now the only unit capable of holding categories and pages. (Folders are now used to group spaces only. You cannot place a page directly into a folder.) 3. People: Displays the people added to Flow. When a person is selected, the categories in which the person participates are displayed.
  • Personal-space are now used to organize content not intended to be shared or published. (In previous releases, folders were used to represent personal-spaces.) Flow includes a built-in personal-space called "My Personal Space". Content that is not created within the context of another space is added to the General category of "My Personal Space" by default.
  • Sharing has been significantly enhanced. Flow is more comprehensive in its attempts to keep everyone up to date and provides much better status visibility. There are status icons next to each space in the drawer (Note that some icons serve as buttons that activate a sharing cycle.) The Browse Participants view (Share>Browse Participants) provides participant level status reporting. In addition, the home pages for Share-Space and Servers provide more detailed status information as well as convenient hot-link access to appropriate actions.
  • Publishing has been significantly enhanced. Status and error reporting have been made more comprehensive. Publishing is now consistently initiated only by the user. The site template offers better browser support by eliminating frames. Multiple publishing templates enable a wide variety of looks and feels... as well as the ability to customize your own.
  • Text files on your file system can now be opened directly and edited. You can use Flow's powerful annotation capabilities while saving the files in their original location
  • The Quick Format options have been been re-worked and renamed.
  • Toolbar and menus have been reworked. It is recommended that you restore toolbar defaults (View>Restore All Toolbar Defaults) to ensure that you are seeing the latest toolbar enhancements.
  • The page-level sidebar has been reworked and renamed the Info panel. The Info Panel enables you to view summaries of the key information (marks, links, authors, etc.) specific to the active page.
  • The external sidebar has been reworked and renamed the Contents panel. This panel now shows the contents of the selected space or category only. Many collections (such as Favorites and Recent) previously in the sidebar have been added to the Drawer.
  • and more... see the release notes for the full listing of new features and fixes

    • Operating System Requirements:

    This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

    • Mac OS X 10.3

    Additional Requirements:

    • Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

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    Version 1.5(EA4):
    Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (5.0) Support: (5.0)
    Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (4.0)
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    Flow ReviewWorks really well. - Version: 1.5(EA4), 3/31/2005 03:29PM PST

    (2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

    hannu_k
    This seems really useful. The support team is very responsive to suggestions and feedback comments on this early access version. I have been looking for a way to switch my work OneNote stuff to a Mac program and all the ones I have used (even the excellent Notebook and DevonThink seem lacking in this area). This seems to be the best alternative currently on Mac to compete with Microsoft OneNote in Windows side. Of course this does quite a bit more than any of those. Some rough edges on how flags are handled but seems to be on track.
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    Flow ReviewAwesome Cool !!! - Version: 1.01, 9/7/2004 07:54PM PST

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    MacHead
    Wow, what a great program. I cannot believe I didn't notice this when it was released.

    If you are interested in incredible features for collaboration and note-taking, this is the one to try!
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    Flow ReviewExcellent program - Version: 1.01, 8/26/2004 07:50PM PST

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    epc
    This is an excellent program with a lot of potential. Keep in mind it is a version 1, and a very solid one. I do not use its collaboration features, so perhaps someone else can comment on those.
    So far I have used it to organize my research, and to organize most of the information I have for a few projects I'm working on. This information includes PDF files, Text Clippings, Word and Excel Documents, images, etc, and in most cases Flow gives me an instant preview of the contents of these documents.
    Prior to using Flow, I tried many products with some of Flow's features. Most of the programs I tried are actually pretty decent, although none comes close to having the versatility and capabilities that Flow has.
    Customer support is superb. I really feel spoiled by their great service and support. For anyone interested in other reviews, just do a Google search. Little by little more people are finding out about Flow and praising this great software. Although I use it in a limited way, it's easy to see the amazing potential this program has. By the way, it pays to read the manual.
    I'm giving price a high rating since I got it under the special introductory price, otherwise it may seem a bit expensive, but for many it will still be worth it.
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