We just launched a brand new feature in the all new Basecamp that is handy in a bunch of different ways. Now you can move to-do lists, discussions, text documents, files, and calendar items between projects or into a brand new project.
Moving items between projects is especially useful in a few specific cases (and probably many we’ve never thought of). For one, people put things in the wrong place from time to time. Now it’s no big deal – just move it to where it should be.
And then there are other times when you want to break a bigger project into a couple smaller projects. Now you can take a list or a message or anything from one project and start an entirely new project from that item. It’s great.
Here’s a video showing you how it works. We think you’re going to love it.
Thanks for using Basecamp! Wait, you aren’t using Basecamp? What are you waiting for?.
Nima
on 26 Apr 1237signals beating heart: http://twitter.com/#!/nimaa/status/185900149799780352 ;)
Nima
on 26 Apr 1237signals beating heart
Champ
on 26 Apr 12Yes yes… that’s nice and all but what about private messages and time tracking?
I’m still not signing up for your “new” basecamp because we use private messages all the time in the “old” basecamp and its of huge benefit to us. Until that happens, I can’t see enough benefit to us switching.
David
on 26 Apr 12This is pretty awesome! Is there a way to copy and not move it though? Still pretty excited about this though.
Also, I second the private messages feature. MUCH needed. Having to use email for internal messages blows big time. No need for time tracking though. Think integration with harvest should be good enough.
Anyways, you guys rock!
JF
on 26 Apr 12David: No copy. Yet ;)
Shane
on 26 Apr 12I second David’s copy comment, but only because that might be quicker coming than the much much needed restoration of templates – two hours down the drain for one team members copying and pasting a long list of To Do items on a project.
But mostly well done on creating a useful new feature. Keep ‘em coming.
Brett
on 26 Apr 12Great! Question – we used categories in the old basecamp to organize discussion/messages. The new basecamp has no such function. Any chance you guys would either add that back or add tags (like you have in highrise)? Right now the new basecamp makes our daily discussions/posts become a sea of content we can’t filter.
Levi Figueira
on 26 Apr 12THANK YOU!!! :)
Alejandro
on 27 Apr 12awesome! amazing feature…this can solve the lack of templates…but… a question… when you move a todo list this list desapear from the previous project?
jeff
on 27 Apr 12This is pretty cool, and I don’t just want to be a me-too-er, but I do want to echo David and Champ’s comments regarding Private Messages, just to show how much support this feature has.
Please, make it the next feature to be released.
We won’t switch until it’s ready.
Ben
on 27 Apr 12Yup, this is a great add to an already great overhaul to Basecamp, yet mysteriously absent is the option to COPY things from project to project?
Why not allow for copying the needed items a-la-carte from a set of “template” projects (or even better a single masterpage project) to kickoff a new pre-populated project again and again?
It really begs the question why the copy option wasn’t just included in this feature release? It’s essentially what’s happening here already with moving items…
Grant Reese
on 27 Apr 12@37signals
It’s crazy for me to believe from the long list of missing features in Basecamp “Next/New” – that you chose this feature to implement first.
:(
I feel like you guys replaced Classic Coke with “New Coke” and it’s nowhere as good as the original.
Just say’n.
Joel
on 27 Apr 12I don’t understand why everyone is complaining that you released this feature before some other feature they wanted. There are two key things that don’t seem to be understood:
1. There may have been many other people that wanted this feature, just because they aren’t as vocal in this thread doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
2. 37signals have more than one developer. It’s quite likely they work on more than one thing at a time. It’s also very likely that different tasks take a different amount of effort/time and they may be working on the features you want, just they haven’t finished them as quickly. Should they not release the things that are ready?
They left basecamp classic for those that need it, they are working on improving basecamp next. Why harass? I am sure they aren’t sitting round doing nothing, and I am sure they are trying to satisfy their customers.
Grant Reese
on 27 Apr 12Unfortunately, simply looking at 37signals change log indicates they are NOT doing anything related to classic Basecamp lately.
Joel
on 27 Apr 12Why would they work on Basecamp classic? Basecamp next is the future of their product. If it doesn’t have everything you need yet, use classic until it does. I wouldn’t want them wasting time on a product that is already in the process of being replaced.
Sean Stewart
on 27 Apr 12Private messages in the new Basecamp please. I’m ready to get rid of the old basecamp but I need to move my projects with private message.
Jj
on 27 Apr 12Just to annoy some in this thread:
- hurrah for moving across pr
Sunil
on 27 Apr 12Any reason I’m not seeing this yet? I hard refreshed, but I don’t see the “Move…” link under Edit and Delete.
Jeffrey R.
on 27 Apr 12I was waiting on two features before the big move:
Textile in documents, messages, etc. (100+ Writeboards and counting, hate touching the mouse while writing) Better File Management (versions + perma-links)Now that I realize private messages are missing, I have a third.
JF
on 27 Apr 12Jeffrey:
1. Textile will not be coming to Basecamp. We’re committing to better WYSIWYG (w/ keyboard shortcuts).
2. Files have permalinks and comments in the new Basecamp. They didn’t in Classic.
David Wiggs
on 27 Apr 12It appears that only the person who created the event can move it. Is that true or am I missing something?
Barry Sindlinger
on 27 Apr 12JasonF – Do you have any plans to add Classic’s subtle tracking of the last time a user signed in to BasecampN?
That’s more important to me than “time tracking” – which tends to bog down work (ala DHH and Ron Baker’s wonderful books on “Value Pricing: Bury the Billable Hour” and “Trashing Timesheets,” though if I’m forced, I like Hoy/Fuchs’ freckle’s approach best).
USE CASE: All I need from “tracking” is to have a “feel” for whether Team Members are engaged. When a Team Member is a great “Idea Guy” but I can see that he hasn’t been “on” Basecamp for 9 days, I know to check in with a call….
Further, if I can see he’s NOW on or has been on within the last 5 min, I might shoot him a time-sensitve BC message…. {Yes, a weird sub for IM’ing, but thus I’m able to have a centralized record of our “pseudo-IM” communications along with all others. ;}
Stephen Jenkins
on 27 Apr 12Private messaging is absolutely crucial, working with a design/development collective that interacts with developers, artists, company contacts, and other parties, all on the same project, we simply cannot move to Next until it is re-introduced.
JF
on 27 Apr 12It appears that only the person who created the event can move it. Is that true or am I missing something?
The person who created it or anyone with admin powers.
Rachel Cunliffe
on 28 Apr 12Private messaging is the only thing holding me back from making the switch to Basecamp new; it’s essential for our projects.
Mark
on 28 Apr 12Given that Basecamp has for so long been heralded as the “email-killing” frontrunner in the client-facing project management field, it is strange that private messaging has been lagging (or, worse, was an after-thought).
As one user aptly noted above, it has driven many who love most of what New Basecamp has to offer into email again, which is ironic, as the product is supposed to be the antithesis of that mess. One fix, which I believe has been discussed often, is to create a mirror project (such as “Miranda Building” and “Miranda Building – Internal,” where the “Internal” project is the private internal dialogue of the vendor, unavailable to the client. A temporary nuisance of a fix, to be sure, but this is a fair solution until (if ?) 37s decides to add private messaging.
Jj
on 28 Apr 12The new “writeboards” ( aka text documents) suck. Ugly as hell, don’t even keep indentation when you copy/paste text from a text editor, Don’t (?) have inline images, Automatically editable, Real-time writing (who’s really gonna use that? Remember Google Wave?)
And the todo pages?!? Omg… You cannot tell in that page even when the task was checked off…
JF
on 28 Apr 12And the todo pages?!? Omg… You cannot tell in that page even when the task was checked off…
You sure can. Everything in the new Basecamp has a history block at the bottom of the page. It tells you everything. When a to-do was added, if it was assigned or reassigned, if it was moved, when it was completed, etc. See this image for an example.
Lori
on 29 Apr 12I agree about the new text documents … comparing versions was WAYYYY better before, and I think making them feel more like “Word” docs is a mistake … I liked the simple elegance of before. Let designers set type, not writers.
Not to pile on, but I just feel like BCX is coming from a different (less savvy) team than the original.
Dayson
on 30 Apr 12Good job, but nothing will be more pleasing than private discussions, todos, files at the moment. Very much needed and a show-blocker for so many people as you read above.
Sunil
on 01 May 12So, 37signals made it clear why I didn’t see the Move option. I was looking for it at the individual to-do level, but it is only available at the to-do list level. That’s unfortunate. I have the need to move the individual item 95% of the time. I hope that is part of the plan in the future.
Angela
on 02 May 12Really need to be able to copy to-do’s from one project to another!!!
Michal
on 02 May 12We are testing basecamp for few weeks and really love it…but we also realy miss privat discussions, todos, files and also copy todos btw projects
Mitchell
on 02 May 12Sunil… I agree with you, but for the meantime.. Create a Temp To-Do list and move the individual To-Do(s) to that list. Then move that to the new project. It is a pain but an easy work-around for the time being.
Rick
on 02 May 12I agree w/ Angela and Michal . . . would really like to have the ablity to copy To Do Lists from one project to another.
Mirje
on 03 May 12I can not see this option for some reason, what could be the problem. I see the Edit and Delete but no Move option.
chris
on 03 May 12I don’t think you should have the popup, that blanks out the rest of the screen, a small notification would be far nicer and efficient for the worker. For example when using linux, when I move a file to a new folder it doesn’t STOP my work and requirement to click again to view the page that I was already on.
Chat
on 03 May 12Yeah, I’m not seeing the move option either. Was the feature pulled?
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