Open the simplified TextFlow version
in your browser
Install the free TextFlow
desktop version
TextFlow is built and created by Nordic River. Our mission is developing next generation office productivity tools that take full advantage of collaboration over the internet.
The arrival of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) gives us the power and the moment to redesign the office experience. We can now combine the best of the old off-line desktop with the new possibilities of web-based software, where users work anywhere, any time, on any connected computer.
This gives us an opportunity to fundamentally reshape the way office tools look and feel.
We can adapt them to the modern way of working, where enterprise success depends on good collaboration in virtual teams that spread geographically and across organizational lines.
Our first product TextFlow embodies our vision: The office experience, redesigned for flow.
Nordic River Software AB is a privately held company, located by the banks of the Umea river in northern Sweden. Umeå is a university city with deep design traditions and a growing software industry.
We think that design, interactivity and development belong together, so being a developer at Nordic River covers a wide span of skills. As a small, multi-national, company, we need flexible generalists who are driven by the same vision that drives us. We hope you find it fascinating to create a product and exciting to participate in a global market launch and share in the joy of our success. The journey begins in Umeå – where it ends is anybody’s guess!
Your work will be used by tens of thousands of people, blogged about, analyzed and most likely plagiarized. As we are a small team, the mark you make – both within the product and the company – will be significant.
Who are you?
We don't have any vacancies at the moment, but we will soon, and we’re always looking for great people. So if you are a software engineer, graphic designer or interaction designer, feel free to send us your CV to jobs@textflow.com if you're interested.
For more information please contact: press@nordicriver.com
Phone: +46 - 90 88 88 016
US Press contacts
Ryan Greives, BLASTmedia
ryan@blastmedia.com
Phone: 317 806 1900 x120
Nordic River logotype (low resolution)
Nordic River logotype (high resolution)
TextFlow is the only collaborative tool that allows concurrent work. (Several users, each working on their own version of the document.) All other systems deal with concurrent versions by trying to avoid them, either by check-in/check-out schemes or by making users work on the same version simultaneously.
Concurrent work results in substantial gains in every development of text where more than one person is involved. It saves significant time, takes away the need for coordination efforts and results in a higher quality end product. This is because concurrent work gives much better support to the way people really work - parallel, iterative and less than perfectly structured.
TextFlow Personal offers the same functionality as TextFlow Professional. However, TextFlow Personal is strictly for personal and non-commercial use. All documents shared using the TextFlow Personal Edition are labelled with a "not for commercial use" watermark.
Currently TextFlow focuses on the early phase of text development, where the text itself is the focus. In the future we will include image handling in TextFlow.
This version of TextFlow does not handle tables. Later versions of TextFlow will.
To use it fully, yes. TextFlow relies on a server to do document analysis, so you must be online to compare multiple documents or import Word documents. However, if you only wish to work with an active session, you can work offline.
TextFlow works both in your browser and as installed software on your desktop. With the installed version you need not log in to use it, and you can drag and drop word files directly into TextFlow.
We currently support .DOC, .DOCX and .RTF. TextFlow has its own format for storing work in progress, .TFX, and you can of course export back to .DOC when you are finished.
The installed version of TextFlow is based on the Adobe AIR platform and thus runs on any operating system supported by AIR. Currently Adobe supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OSX 10.4 (or later), and Linux. We have tested TextFlow on Windows and OSX, but not Linux. The web based version of TextFlow runs on any browser that supports Flash 9 or above.
Nordic River Software AB
Norra Obbolavägen 129
904 22 Umeå, Sweden
Phone +46 90-88 88 016
General enquires
info@nordicriver.com
Sales
sales@nordicriver.com
Press enquires
press@nordicriver.com
Business/Partnership enquires
business@nordicriver.com
Job enquires
jobs@textflow.com
Support
support@nordicriver.com
