Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / What can you accomplish on BC? Check this out.

Um… I guess what you’re saying is that the team that built that site used basecamp to manage the project?

Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / Maybe milestones need to be more granular?

Ramping up on basecamp, sort of struggling with how to organize the project. I think what I’m finding is that maybe milestones need to be more granular than one might think, given the name.

• Milestones have dates.
• To-do items cannot have dates, only an order within the to-do list. To-do lists can be associated with milestones (but not with messages, except by embedding links manually).
• Messages can be associated with milestones as well (but not with to-do items, except by embedding links manually)
• Comments can be attached to messages, not to to-do items or milestones.
• Writeboards are shared documents and cannot be associated with anything (except by embedding links manually)
• Files cannot be associated with anything (again, except by embedding links manually)

1. one milestone
2. + one or more todo list
3. + one or more messages
   as one ‘bundle’, all related to each other. Trying to make relationships outside of this bundle is a pain.

Am I missing something obvious? The lack of easy linking, particularly to files and writeboards, seems to be a real deficiency…

thx

Topic: How are you using Basecamp? / Associate messages with a todo list item

Looks like you can do this, but by using HTML markup… ugh. Not very user-friendly.