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Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by unreal37 »

michokest wrote: post #42
sergiotapia wrote: post #25

I STRONGLY recommend Asana: http://www.asana.com It's like using a smart piece of paper that just gets out of your way and let's you create, assign, toggle, set dates, etc really intuitively. I'm a freelancer - and for my usage I typically have a Workspace called Freelance Projects. In that workspace I have many projects, each for each freelance gig I land. I then invite my client (YOU CAN INVITE UP TO 30 PEOPLE PER…

Related: Teambox offers tasks, conversations, notes and files in a similar experience to Asana or Trello, just a broader feature-set. http://teambox.com Strong points vs others are All Tasks view to filter by users or tags (#p1, #pull-request, etc). Free for 5 users, and integrated with Dropbox, GDocs, etc.

You should mention that you work for teambox...

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by benatkin »

sergiotapia wrote: post #25

I STRONGLY recommend Asana: http://www.asana.com It's like using a smart piece of paper that just gets out of your way and let's you create, assign, toggle, set dates, etc really intuitively. I'm a freelancer - and for my usage I typically have a Workspace called Freelance Projects. In that workspace I have many projects, each for each freelance gig I land. I then invite my client (YOU CAN INVITE UP TO 30 PEOPLE PER…

As a freelancer, I currently use both, as a user on accounts owned by different clients, and I prefer BaseCamp. I find BaseCamp's messages very useful and Asana's emails when you assign ToDos (also supported by BaseCamp) don't even come close. I also find Asana's interface visually distracting compared to BaseCamp.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by willtheperson »

cmaradcliffe wrote: post #72
hemancuso wrote: post #71

"37signals launches lifetime plan for Basecamp" Is what this headline should read. Lifetime plans are a notoriously bad and often disingenuous idea. This is essentially a free plan they are trying to charge $25 for. Buyer beware. What if they remove a feature you depend on 3 years from now? Do you get your money back? What if Basecamp Next++ due in 2015 is terrible and you have to stop using it, can you still use wha…

Surely if you've been using a piece of software for 15 years that cost you $25 you would feel you've got your money's worth, no?

Hang on there - $0.13 a month is a little steep.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by efsavage »

Maybe I just think about things backwards, but why do none of these packages support task dependencies (not subtasks). It seems that the logical precursor to "what is important" is "what is available". Instead we have daily scrums and bi-weekly planning sessions and people doing all sorts of query-fu just to figure this out. I'd like a system where I can:

  a) Dump my tasks
  b) Have it give me a good guess at the most important task, at which point I can:
  - Do it
  - Say it's not important
  - Say it's blocked by another task (and which task that is)
  - Punt it to someone else.
  - Snooze it until date X.
  c) Repeat.
I could always go in an do normal task/project management stuff but most of the time I just want to filter the right 8 hours of tasks out of the 800 hours of candidates.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by benatkin »

tomkin wrote: post #62

I think we're seeing the unfolding of 37signals. I know that's the cliche thing to say here on HN, so note I say this bearing that overarching fact in mind. I think Basecamp Next was the beginning. I can't put it into words, but users stopped praising 37signals after Basecamp Next. Changes were probably necessary, but it just doesn't garner the same respect as the original Basecamp. I feel like they deliberately remo…

I disagree that users stopped praising 37signals. It wouldn't necessarily take data to convince me otherwise, but I find your arguments unconvincing.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by benatkin »

bluetidepro wrote: post #8

It would be a shame to see people sink their money in this without realizing there are way better services out there for this type of thing. For example, Evernote Premium is just $5.00 per month or $45.00 per year and you get way better features, syncing across platforms, storage space, sharing, etc. That [Evernote example] costs less than 2 Basecamp Personal projects. I really think they should look into lowering th…

The one alternative you cite, Evernote, is something very different. Project information will mostly be unstructured. It will hold data but it won't send emails about TODOs with helpful subject lines. If better task tracking increases productivity, and it does IME, it will pay its $25 easily.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by philip1209 »

I wish that there was calendar access; if I can't access to do items via an iPhone app or through google calendar, then due dates are a bit useless. I tried running my classes and homework through base camp, but now use asana because it has a calendar feed I can see on my phone, there is an iPhone app, and it auto-promotes tasks based on due date. The latter-most feature is important because I just put in a semester's worth of reading and it trickles assignments onto my daily to-do list as the deadlines approach.

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by revorad »

efsavage wrote: post #94

Maybe I just think about things backwards, but why do none of these packages support task dependencies (not subtasks). It seems that the logical precursor to "what is important" is "what is available". Instead we have daily scrums and bi-weekly planning sessions and people doing all sorts of query-fu just to figure this out. I'd like a system where I can: a) Dump my tasks b) Have it give me a good guess at the most i…

What criteria would you use for ranking tasks by importance?

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by philip1209 »

bluetidepro wrote: post #8

It would be a shame to see people sink their money in this without realizing there are way better services out there for this type of thing. For example, Evernote Premium is just $5.00 per month or $45.00 per year and you get way better features, syncing across platforms, storage space, sharing, etc. That [Evernote example] costs less than 2 Basecamp Personal projects. I really think they should look into lowering th…

They used to have a free tier of the old basecamp - I'm fortunate to still have one

Re: Basecamp Personal

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Post by efsavage »

revorad wrote: post #98
efsavage wrote: post #94

Maybe I just think about things backwards, but why do none of these packages support task dependencies (not subtasks). It seems that the logical precursor to "what is important" is "what is available". Instead we have daily scrums and bi-weekly planning sessions and people doing all sorts of query-fu just to figure this out. I'd like a system where I can: a) Dump my tasks b) Have it give me a good guess at the most i…

What criteria would you use for ranking tasks by importance?

Probably a few factors:

  1. How important I say it is.
  2. How important the tasks it is blocking are.
  3. How close to the due date it is.
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