Today we are happy to announce a major upgrade to our group collaboration service Shareflow. With this release we focused on making Shareflow blazingly fast while adding some of the most requested features from our users.

We know from user feedback and our own personal use that once Shareflow is incorporated into your workflow, it becomes an important hub for all your group communication. Our users keep Shareflow open all day and love how it keeps their most important conversation categorized and easily accessible via our powerful search engine. That’s why one of our priorities for this release was focusing on making Shareflow as fast and responsive as possible. How serious are we about performance? We rewrote Shareflow’s user interface from the ground up, optimizing for speed and consistency across our supported browsers. When you open Shareflow today, you’ll notice quicker load times and improved responsiveness as you navigate between flows and perform searches. This work also lays the groundwork for us to build new features and continue to tune performance to make Shareflow even faster.

We really worked on performance with this release, but what would a release be without a few new features? Your feedback as Shareflow users is incredibly important to us, and we’ve included some of our users’ most requested features with this upgrade.

Rich Text In Posts

Shareflow now supports rich-text in your comments and posts. Now you can express your thoughts more clearly using bold, italic, underline, fonts, colors, lists…you get the idea. The rich text controls are neatly tucked away on the right side of the comment field giving you access to bold and italic by default.

Or you can expand the controls to get the full list of text formatting options

(disclaimer: Zenbe does not condone the use of Comic Sans).

Edit a Post

Shareflow now allows you to go back and edit posts after you’ve posted them. Whenever you update a post it will be sorted back to the top of the list of posts in the flow, so your collaborators can see the updates. To edit a post just select the edit button in the context menu on the right corner of each Post. Note you can only edit posts that you created.

You can use this feature to make minor corrections to a post you’ve made after posting it, or to collaboratively build a document based on your collaborators comments. This feature opens up a lot of possibilities for how to use Shareflow that we may not have even considered yet. Try it out and let us know your power user tips.

Gorgeous Image Previews

We brought over the beautiful new image previewer that we build for Zenbe Mail. Now your photos look better than ever and load faster too!

Find That Flow You’re Looking for, Faster!

Shareflow is a flexible system that allows you to decide how to organize your information. Some of our users prefer to use just a few long running flows to collaborate while others like to create many flows each focused on a smaller project or topic. For the latter group we’ve enhanced the Shareflow sidebar to make it easier to find the flow your looking for. First we added sorting options. By default, your list of flows is now sorted by recent activity. This means that your most active flows will always be easily accessible at the top of the list. If you want to see an alphabetical listing of flows, just click the drop down and select “All Flows A-Z”. Another way to quickly find a flow is to click on the binoculars “find” button. You’ll get a text field that you can type the name of the flow in to quickly narrow your list to the flow you are looking for.

One More Thing…

We know that Shareflow has helped many organizations collaborate more effectively, and we want the Shareflow community to grow even more. Today we are announcing our holiday gift to the Shareflow community, unlimited flows on all of our Shareflow plans! That’s right every plan from free to premium now offers unlimited flows, which gives you unlimited flexibility in how you categorize your most important conversations and collaborate with the people that matter most to you!

There’s no better time to head on over to http://getshareflow.com and signup today if you haven’t already. We hope you enjoy all of these enhancements to Shareflow and we are eager to hear your feedback on how we can make the system even better. Please contact us and us know your thoughts.

Happy Holidays, everyone! And here’s to a productive New Year with Shareflow!