Topic: TaskPaper integration via Applescript??

do you know how TaskPaper stores its “tasks” – xml, database, etc? does it have an export function?

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

It is already multi-user as long as both users have an account and share pages etc.

My wife and I have an account each and share the pages/calendars that we need to.

Topic: Image URL --> Gallery Image (a la Tumblr)

Multiple uploads (several pics at once, maybe 3 – 6) would also be great.

Topic: Edit Contact info IN PLACE in the sidebar

This would be great. +1

Topic: I Want Sandy

Me too.

Topic: iPhone Home Screen Webclip Icon?

Ben, this is a terrific suggestion. In fact, I think in the chance that Apple opens the iPhone’s doors to 37Signals, a full scale integration would be a murderously killer app. I’m talking making it so that in a few touches you could add contacts and tasks, automatically matching your iPhone photos and so on. In fact, it would be even more murderous if after you installed it, it matched your existing contacts on both platforms and filled in the requisite details that are missing from each.

In the case that the open iPhone door wish came true, might an integration of Highrise and Plaxo be a good idea?

These 37signals guys are clearly talented enough to build this technology.

Just my thoughts. Just what I was thinking at the time.

I’d love to know what

Topic: iPhone Home Screen Webclip Icon?

Ben,

I haven’t got an iPhone (gasp) but am thinking of one. Can you use HR on it?

Topic: I Want Sandy

I’m going out on a limb here…

I Want Sandy (iwantsandy.com) is an email-based reminder service. Pretty cool, once you learn the commands to use to create reminders, notes, and todos, and calendar appointments.

I’d REALLY like it if Backpack’s reminder system had the ability to do one additional thing along these lines: create reminders and appointments by sending them in via email. Backpack pages allow me to email in content, I just would like the reminder and/or calendar to do the same.

Topic: Edit Contact info IN PLACE in the sidebar

This feature would save us a lot of time, please add it

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

I know this is an old thread, but I have to add my plea for multiple users in BackPack.

Basecamp is a bit too structured and inflexible for the small projects my team is doing. The ability to put mulitple kinds of things in BackPack and the ease of reordering them is just perfect. But we can’t use it because we need multiple users!

I’m not sure what we’re going to do. Our current hodgepodge of tools isn’t working, but I don’t see any good alternatives out there so we’re just kind of stuck.

Auuugh.

Topic: Edit Contact info IN PLACE in the sidebar

Thanks for your feedback on this. We appreciate it.

Topic: Input Reminders & Notes via SMS

Correct me if I’m wrong, but most cell phones can send an SMS to an email address – just enter the address rather than a number. If this scenario works on your carrier then you can just email your pages.

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

It’s lost in the wreckage of the old forum, but I’m 99% sure they did say at one point that Backpack 3 (or an unnamed future version) would support multiple users. Presumably they will never talk about future versions again until a day or two before launch, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see this feature at some point.

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

I actually wasn’t intending to be insulting; I’m under the impression that they take the view that often customers don’t know what makes for a good product. Many very successful companies, that create great products and/or provide great services take this view; see Apple and their dislike of focus groups.

I fully concede that sometimes 37signals does take feature requests into account; my impression is that they generally view these sorts of submissions with skepticism. This hasn’t stopped me from posting suggestions, on the off chance that one of my wishes strikes them as a good idea.

Most of the time, there are work arounds. With Campfire’s lack of an API, and BP’s lack of multiple accounts, it’s virtually impossible to work around. BC/HR’s APIs provide the hope that if I really dislike a certain behaviour (or lack thereof) I can make my own workaround…

-RS

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

I realise 37signals doesn’t feel feature requests are a useful source of input for the future direction of its products (in general), but this is really a rather important issue.

That is a rather unfair statement to make. Although I have not tracked every post made by the 37signals folks, I do believe that they listen to all the feature requests and other input regarding their products. However, the direction they take with their products is entirely up to them.

This feature may be something that you feel strongly about and, indeed, it sounds like a feature that would be an effective solution for your problem. For other people, however, it might simply be yet another highly irrelevant feature.

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

That doesn’t make sense; basecamp and highrise have single-account-owners with multiple user accounts. Your response is no doubt that these are business tools.

I’m sure there are business owners who might view backpack as the perfect tool for them. Create a Max plan, $25 per month/3000 pages/10 GB/multiple users allowed. Alternatively, if you want to charge by user, improve page sharing, allow accounts to pull their page allocations, and do it that way.

A third option is to fold backpack into one of your other products, but I’d imagine that’s even more unlikely.

I realise 37signals doesn’t feel feature requests are a useful source of input for the future direction of its products (in general), but this is really a rather important issue.

I’ve spent $225 so far on backpack; my monthly 37 signals bill is approaching $87/mo, and I’m asking to pay more.

At some point, it will be cheaper to commission a clone than pay $1044 a year without having any efficacy about the evolution of these tools.

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

Sharing a single login is not permitted by the Terms of Service. We’ve run into situations where someone shared a login and then someone else cancelled their account. Your login is yours and yours alone. It should not be shared with anyone else—even a spouse or close friend. Backpack is currently a single-user product. If you need to share pages please use the sharing feature. Thanks.

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

I’d consider paying the $10 for both my wife and I if we could have a family style account rather than two separate accounts. However, I really won’t pay $10/month for two different accounts, and I won’t pay $5/month for the single account because of non-integrated accounts.

Sharing a login would work for us, however, that’s against policy, so while we could ignore it, we won’t…

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

In my specific case, no, because we both need to be able to add pages as needed.

What I would really like to see is something like the Highrise system for Backpack: multiple users, permissions, etc. Basecamp is too project-oriented for this type of shared family use, while Backpack is nearly perfect.

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

Sounds interesting but complicated to implement. Could this be handled by having reminders/calendars attached to a shared page? They might show up on all sharing users reminders and events?

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

What’s so sloppy about sharing a login? My wife and I use Backpack that way, and have no complaints. I’m curious to see what issues you are running into.

Come to think of it, the only issue that we’ve run into is knowing when an item that the other person created has been added to Backpack (i.e. calendar event, todo list item, etc). But I think a Dashboard section would take care of this.

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

+1
Wife and I would like to share calender and reminders but sharing a login is just sloppy.

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

Agreed. My SO and I are using Backpack to plan our wedding and we ended up creating a new account for it, despite each of us already having our own, because we needed to both have full control over the calendar, reminders, and all pages. The e-mail address we use for the reminders is an alias to both of us and we share a single username/password for the account.

If I remember correctly, it was mentioned in the old forums that some sort of multi-user functionality was coming. I was hoping to see it in this update.

Topic: Multiple Users in a given Backpack account

First let me say, the new backpack is great, and I’m happy with the changes we see.

That having been said, Backpack is the most “family-oriented” of the various 37signals tools. The need for people to be able to collaborate more closely is, well, vital. Per-page sharing may be appropriate between siblings or friends, but for a couple it’s an aggravating speed bump.

There has to be some way to allow one account to support multiple users or multiple accounts to pool their resources. In an age with SANs on every street corner, flexible provisioning of pages/space between people willing to either share an account or merge seperate ones would be nice.