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# WriteFlow - First Steps

The first thing you have to know about WriteFlow is that it is somehow different. You will need some patience and tolerance to get used to it, but we hope that you'll find that the profit will outweight the initial inconvenience.

The basic idea of WriteFlow is one of speed and convenience while working on long and complicated texts. This basic idea shaped our vision of a perfect word processor, and although WriteFlow is not there, that's what we are going for.

Possibly, "perfect" seems to be prentious, and it might sound even more so when you follow WriteFlow's development over time and you see the slow progress and the lack of some important features. After all, the perfect word processor does everything one has to do. WriteFlow is not quite there.

But while we might still miss out in many essential features which you find in every other word processor, like export, printing, lists etc., we already have something you'll find nowhere. We developed a unique system which allows us to treat text differently, to look at the text you write or somebody else wrote in a new and exciting way.

WriteFlow does not just put text in a file, but it stores it in a database and it stores a lot of information with it. The difference to other word processors is, that you can address every paragraph, if you want even every word as a unique entity, and you can use the same word in many different contexts.

Changing a given text in one context will change it in all the documents where you've previously used it, unless you'd rather want to have a different version of the text.

As your text is an entry in a database, you can move it, connect it, change the author etc. totally independently of the document where you used it before. Your text is freed from it's context, and as such, it can be in any document or context you wish it to be.

And your text can share a lot of information with you: It knows about every place where it is used, it even knows where a changed version of itself is in use. If the text is a quote it even knows to which book or article it belongs and it brings automatically the right footnote with it.

To know more about WriteFlow, please use the "First Steps" documents which came with your WriteFlow Application (or, if you don't find them among your documents, you can download from here: First Steps documents.