Basecamp: The Footnotes

so welcome again to another episode of

my Basecamp series this is actually a

last one or five that I've been doing

this week and today I want to touch on a

few things that I haven't gone over but

I think they're worth mentioning so

let's just get straight into it so this

is my demo account with Lucy and we know

about the headquarters we know about the

teams and we know about the projects so

if I get into a project I spoke about

all these tools message board project

chats automatic check-in schedule and

documents now what I haven't spoken

about is this button here ping and I'm

going to go through a couple of these

just in case I missed a few so home is

literally just home you just go back to

the to the home page which is this page

I'm going to go back into this project

pings is the thing that I want to speak

about now as you know we have the chat

feature which is called which is

campfire basically I just renamed it to

chance and we have the message board

where we communicate whether it's

internally or externally but now pings

is another way of communicating with an

individual person whereas the chat you

can actually talk to anyone within that

project and and it's all open and it's

it's transparent so everyone can see it

same with the message board it's it's

like a threaded message where you know

everyone sees everything

what pings do and I'll show you here

what pings do is that you can actually

have a private chat with one person so

if I have a private chat with me for

instance I can ping them and then I can

the a chat window basically opens up and

I can say hey what would you like on

sorry like with your

lunch what drink would you like drink

would you like with your lunch now again

this can be about personal stuff it can

be about specific project things but you

don't necessarily need everyone to see

it so you know Lucy's asking me you know

what do I want for lunch and now

basically what this is a direct message

to me to your colleague or collaborator

you can actually if they're in with the

project he can actually spank them that

way as well so it doesn't have to be so

basically company-wide whether they're

external or internal that's the easiest

way to explain it so then your colleague

will get that message but no one else

sees it it's basically a private message

so it's just another level of

communication so you don't have to have

everything open if you don't want to

have it all open so specific

conversations you generally don't need

to so if I now go into my phone my phone

has given me a notification click on the

notification opens up the ping and you

will see water is fine thanks and my

customary emojis and there we go as you

see it so it's it's a real quick simple

way so it again this part of it this

tool is actually a replacement for

things like what's up and I I would just

please don't use what's up for your

business stuff or actually anything

anyway this is a different subject

so pings are effectively a what's up

replacement because it's a one-to-one

thing let's go back to home now the next

thing I think I have touched on this is

hey hey is basically just your

notifications and everything happening

within the notifications oops sorry

wrong button activity here again I did

touch on this but I'll go through it

very quickly it's just every it's like a

bird's eye view of everything next

going on within your business so you can

see all the latest activity you can see

specific person's activity someone

else's assignments - dues for that

project that because we're in this Tim

project in being our client effectively

you can see all the overdue

there's nothing overdue these are the

the tasks that we did in this demo

project and any upcoming dates again

it's just a calendar with yeah upcoming

which is basically the agenda for the

for the project but also the agenda for

you as in your account effectively what

was assigned to you the next thing is my

stuff here now with my stuff again it's

lit it's you know name for like your

stuff so it's all your assignments all

your book my so everything is actually

in one place boost's we haven't touched

on boost is like you know you can give

instead of writing a whole reply you can

actually just give a thumbs up where you

can type a few lines in that boost so

it's kind of like a like button

effectively but it's you can add a few

more bits to it than just the like

effectively again underneath here it's a

recent recently visited is literally

just that you know if where did I go I

went home so I just click it and there I

am now the find feature is really good

in Basecamp

it you can find anything and everything

but that that you have access to

Basecamp white like throughout the whole

account as long as you have access to it

but it also searches and you can also

find things that have been archived and

this is ideal for me anyway so when I

work on a project and I finished project

I archive it because I don't really want

to see it because I'm not working with

that client and again if the client

contacts me I can do a quick search and

it will show me all the archive stuff

and then I can you know quickly an

archive it or just leave it there and

look at the notes so you can actually

find anything so

I think we did something with wolf so if

I just type in wolf you can see

everything that's related to wolf I mean

even this witch Lucy has access to this

account sorry this project tech

minimalism and this person here called

Lucas actually mentioned Wolf's name so

I can actually see everything I can go

to all results and I can see it all in

one place so the find feature is

actually really really clever you can

find you can you know hone it down to

what you want to find by whom that be as

well and whichever project that you have

access to whichever area that you have

accessed it so it's really really

powerful to actually have a fine feature

like this so you can effectively find

anything and everything so let's just go

to Tim's project there you go again

we've been through a lot of these tools

there's no point me going back through

it I just wanted to make this last

episode to just go through those small

features that I didn't touch on in my

last videos hopefully this series really

helped you out again if you need any

help please do reach out to me whether

you need some consulting or training

with Basecamp or if you have any

questions about these videos if I've

missed anything let me know maybe I'll

make another video for you anyway have a

great day actually have a great weekend

it's Friday today and I will see you on

Monday maybe it's another Basecamp video

probably not actually but anyway have a

great weekend and I'll see you then ciao

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