Basecamp Features Overview

Summary

Kimberly from 37signals provided an overview of ten Basecamp features that users may not be aware of, focusing on personalization, notifications management, group collaboration, templates, scheduling, and reporting.
The walkthrough is intended to help users improve productivity and organization within Basecamp, highlighting both new and enhanced features since the last update.
No decisions, assignments, or open questions were present in this informational video.

(No action items were assigned during this meeting.)

Users can personalize their home screen by pinning projects, adding colors for quick identification, and creating stacks to group similar projects.
Stacks can be named, colored, and given images, and all customizations are visible only to the individual making them.

Assignments across all projects appear at the bottom of the home screen.
Users can prioritize tasks by adding them to the "Up Next" section for better focus.

The "Don't Forget" feature lets users earmark important notifications for later follow-up, separate from the main notification feed.
Items can be marked as "unseen" to float them back to the top of the Hey menu, similar to marking emails unread.

Account owners/admins can create custom groups for easier @-mentions and adding predefined teams to projects.
Ping groups can be renamed and assigned images to distinguish between different group chat topics.

Existing projects can be converted into templates, allowing users to replicate workflows and optionally include people, comments, and other project data in the template.

Users can customize what appears in the project’s schedule tool (events vs. dated to-dos).
An additional schedule tool can be added to separate events from assignments within the same project.

The "overdue to-dos" report consolidates all overdue tasks across projects for easy tracking.
The "Hilltop View" report provides a visual overview of Hill Charts across multiple projects, linking directly to each project’s Hill Chart.