It would be extremely useful if messages and files could be scheduled at a later date and time to both appear on the client side and notify them.

For instance if I’m done with a project at 1am in the morning, I don’t want my client to think I will always be awake and available to them at 1am. However I do want them to receive a message (along with any attached files) bright and early 8am in the morning while I’m in another meeting or otherwise away from the computer…

Great suggestion, Stacie. I’d like to see this, too.

Interest idea but probably only useful to only a handful of people. Thus unlikely to be added anytime soon. You could probably do this with the Basecamp API though…. hmm

I wish I knew how to use the API but I’ll have to hope that someone else picks up the idea.

I think you’d be surprised the number of people who would end up using this feature (pre-scheduling messages) once it’s available. I had no concept of it until my email started offering the option. I now use it to manage my time so that I have more uninterrupted personal/free time. It helps me get a whole lot of contact done in one hour a week before, when it used to take me all day the-day-of to email everyone.

Another benefit to this feature is if the recipient gets an alert at say 11am it’s at the top of their inbox not mixed up under 20+ messages. As a project manager you can schedule messages at times that you know your recipients typically open and read mail. No more ‘lost’ message alerts.

I would just like emails to be sent to people about 1 minute after posting the message. The number of times I press the post button and then realise I made a mistake and quickly edit is high. If the email wasn;t sent for a minute or two, the reader would get the edited text. This sits nicely with this request.