Blog: Fresh Tilled Ideas

Improving on great: Gmail meets Basecamp

Posted On: April 29th 2008
By: Richard Banfield

My email application of choice is gmail. My personal task management application of choice is Highrise from 37Signals.com. Our company also uses Basecamp for all our design and search marketing clients. One of the things I'd love to see is a way to add my gmail messages directly to Highrise or Basecamp. Basecamp already lets you email replies directly to the messages in projects and Highrise has a email dropbox so this can't be an impossible task. I imagine that after clicking on the "Add to Highrise" or "Add to Basecamp" button a popup would appear with the email contents formated like a new message. The new popup would ask "Here is your new message/task, would you like to add it to Highrise/Basecamp now" or provide an edit function but showing all text as editble.

If you're a developer with the skills to solve this problem let me know and we can figure this out together.

Comments (2)

"You can forward any email to Highrise and it will attach it to the correct person. You can also forward emails in and turn them into tasks. http://www.highrisehq.com/email"

- Jason Fried: May 2, 2008 - 07:45 am

"I think this is a good idea, one thing I would add would be if you could click on the Basecamp logo a list of projects you have permission to access would pop up and you could pick the project you wanted to add the e-mail to."

- Dan Allard: Apr 30, 2008 - 03:29 pm

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