Topic: Feature Requests / Comments on To-Do Lists

I still think a better way would be for the system to automatically link a Message and a To-Do item if they have the same title. There could then be a button that creates a To-Do item from a Message and vice versa that just pre-fills the form with the same title.

http://forum.37signals.com/basecamp/forums/3/topics/5918?page=1#posts-20582

Anyway, this feature is either being worked on behind the scenes or is being completely ignored regardless of how many people ask for it.

Topic: Feature Requests / Add Comments to To Dos

And also see:

http://forum.37signals.com/basecamp/forums/3/topics/4549

Topic: Feature Requests / Add Comments to To Dos

Does the system automatically link the To-Do with the Message if they have the same name for you? It doesn’t for me and that would do fine. We tend to put our names in the To-Do and assign it back to the person you want to read/comment next. Absolutely awkward.

What would be nice is if you used the same title (exactly) in the To-Do list as a Message thread then the To-Do item becomes a link to the Message thread. Maybe also working the other way, so a button/link from a Message thread that says “Make To-Do item from this message”.

I know you could manually type an HTML <a> tag around the To-Do title linking it manually to the message, but most of my clients aren’t technical enough to do.

This is a major pain in the ass for us at the moment, so any chance of a quick fix would be great ;-)