8/13/2023 0 Comments Basecamp 3 dropbox![]() ![]() Using Basecamp, we often found clients would get confused between the role of discussions and tasks, often starting a discussion that could have been set up as a task allocated to someone on the team. The traditional ‘Basecamp’ view is the default, but 2 other options include a column view (similar to Trello) and a timeline/gantt chart view.Īnother point about the tasks we liked is the fact that standard client accounts can’t create or assign tasks themselves. The main clincher for us on the task management though is the choice of 3 views. They can be reordered and grouped, but additionally can be set to repeat or can be made up of several sub-tasks, labelled and set as high priority, visible or hidden to clients. Tasks share a lot of similarities with Basecamp. ![]() It’s a Basecamp 3 feature, but something new for us coming from Basecamp 2.Īctive Collab's useful feature notifies people they've been included in a discussion. This automatically adds them to the notification list and highlights their name making it easy to see who’s been asked to do what. There’s an option to switch from a basic text box to a rich text editor adding a few extra formatting options, including a code block, which is really useful given some of the content we share between us.Īnother discussion feature is being able to someone else within the team. Discussionsĭiscussions are largely the same, but with some nice touches not seen in Basecamp. You can filter by client, customisable labels or categories. Depending on how you use Active Collab, this can be super helpful to reduce the clutter on screen to see only the projects you’re interested in. Projects are exactly what they are, but each project can be labelled and then filtered on the overview page. Note, we’re using the cloud hosted version of AC which is slightly different to the self-hosted version. So here are some of things we particularly liked that convinced us to switch to Active.Collab. This could have been our mistake during the import process, but the support team from AC were very helpful and a quick follow up email to our clients managed to limit any confusion. The one annoying thing with the import that caught us out was that existing Basecamp members were notified about their Active.Collab account before we were ready to tell them about the changeover. Active.Collab offer a 6 month (that’s not a typo – 6 months) trial if you import your Basecamp projects, but watch out for differences in storage and user limits before committing to your subscription. They share the same overall purpose and like Basecamp, content in both platforms is grouped by discussions, tasks, files and notes. I’ve looked in on it every now and again, and for one reason or another, 3 months ago it seemed a good time to take another look.įirst off, Active.Collab is very similar to Basecamp. More on that in another post, but suffice to say, there’s no one size fits all and we’re constantly looking at how we can improve the way we work and the tools that help us.Īctive.Collab isn’t new – it’s been around for a number of years, originally as a self-hosted platform, but now available as a hosted app. We’ve tried a number of different platforms for managing our projects. With the way the USD/GBP exchange rate is looking right now, we’re already seeing a price increase in many of our Saas apps of around 10%, so this was obviously something we were keen to avoid. We shared Basecamp with clients to enable better collaboration on projects, so enabling client access to projects in Basecamp 3 would have resulted in quite a price increase. However, the launch of Basecamp 3 didn’t seem a good fit for us and from a personal point of view, it looked like it was carrying a lot more baggage that we wouldn’t really benefit from. The company’s founder Jason Fried has been very vocal about Basecamp’s business approach through bestselling books including Rework and Remote: Office Not Required.īasecamp wasn’t broken and they didn’t do anything wrong. It’s a great product now in its third incarnation, reliable and easy to use. Basecamp it seems has become the de-facto tool among creative and digital agencies for sharing files, discussions and creating to-do lists – basically keeping everything in the same place – and with good reason too. Our collaborative tool of choice has for several years been Basecamp. ![]() Moving our Projects from Basecamp to Active Collab
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