Sharing on your own terms
You know how your parents always told you to share? Well, now you get to share your documents with others on your own terms, using your favorite email service. You no longer have to hear “you share that document with your colleague or you will get sent to your cubicle without your latte!”
Instead of having to use an email client that you may not be familiar with, we let you pick whichever popular service you currently use: Gmail, Hotmail, or a local client such as Outlook or Thunderbird. If you don’t use one of these, you can still email using ThinkFree Mail.
- Choose from contacts in your address book, no more maintaining multiple contact lists.
- Have a familiar user interface with rich formatting options.
- Maintain the history of all the documents you have emailed in your sent items folder so that you can refer to them at any time.
As you can see, the Share interface has changed somewhat to accomodate the new features. Below is what the resulting email looks like. Note that the BCC field is filled with information about the document. We use the BCC field to track who you have shared this file with to display in the Detail section of the document. That way you always know who is on the sharing list for this particular document, and if you wish to email them later to discuss the document you can do so with the click of a button. We track who you share the document with only for helping to manage your sharing list. We do not use this information for any other reason.
Posted by Bo on October 9, 2006 at 11:20 am
asiasi said,
October 9, 2006 @ 11:29 am
oh, I didn’t notice you guys have some changes. It looks great. I will try it right now.
Leland Scott said,
October 26, 2006 @ 5:49 am
Oh, sorry… I thought ThinkFree was a Microsoft-independent product. But your screenshots are with Windows XP, and why do I see a shot of MS Office there? Oh, it’s not? Sure looks like it. You’re never going to make by simply apeing Microsoft, fellas. I tried ThinkFree about 5 years ago when you were just starting, and it’s sad to think you haven’t learned this by now…
Scott Porter said,
October 26, 2006 @ 6:46 am
Leland,
Grow up!!! Whatever your bitterness & resentments may be, why not look at the excellent product instead of beating Microsoft & any product that may slightly resemble MS.
I am definitely not sticking up for MS, although they were a huge factor in getting the IT industry where it is today. Instead of being so narrow-minded, why not look at the positives of all and pick & choice FREELY!
Microsoft is on the downslide. Novell, Apple, IBM surviving. Linux is on the uprise. So what! take the good & leave the rest. Stop the bashing & take all the time you have left to discover & correct some of your personnel flaws!
Jonathan Crow said,
October 26, 2006 @ 7:28 am
Leland,
We actually agree with you. We realize that ThinkFree won’t get anywhere by just replicating what Microsoft does. We chose to resemble the look and feel of Office so that users would not have to relearn a new application. And yes the screenshots were in XP because that is what I was using at the time. If anyone wants to donate a Mac I would be happy to use that as well.
But, those are just the superficial things, and our beauty is more than skin deep. I hope you have had a chance to look around ThinkFree Online since the last time you tried us 5 years ago. We have added some great new features: collaboration, version management, blog and web publishing (including our DocExchange list of published files), rating, tagging, mash-ups with Flickr, del.icio.us, Creative Commons, and much more to come. And none of these have anything to do with Microsoft Office.
In the end you are absolutely correct we need to do more. Our vision is to take the features and functionality people have come to expect in current industry standard desktop office applications and combine them with what the internet does well - bring people, services and ideas together.
Thanks,
Jonathan
li said,
October 26, 2006 @ 11:21 am
good,
My Uninstalled Life » ThinkFree - new exiting features said,
October 27, 2006 @ 2:12 am
[…] First, there’s a new way of sharing your files. You can choose whatever mailclient you usually use, such as Gmail and Hotmail (also local clients if you’re still running installed ones ;)). A good thing about this is that you don’t have to maintain a complete list of users in multiple locations - just pick them from your addressbook. […]
andrie indrawan said,
October 28, 2006 @ 12:08 am
thanks