Basecamp
Email to Basecamp,
the easy way
ForwardThis is the simple tool that connects your email to Basecamp. Forward any email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Nothing to download, nothing to set up. Works with dozens of your other apps too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Basecamp
Create a free account and connect Basecamp. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made - and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Site survey needs re-booking
Add a to-do on the Millgate Refit project for Owen, due 4 September, and save the survey to the project's files.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
The surveyor couldn't get access to the rear yard on Tuesday, so the north elevation is missing. We'll need a second visit before the drawings can go out.
millgate-survey-aug.pdf1.8 MB
Added to-do on Millgate Refit
Re-book the site survey · Owen Deane · due Fri 4 Sep
Saved millgate-survey-aug.pdf
Millgate Refit, Docs & Files
ForwardThis checks with you before anything the team can see, then replies to confirm.
Some other examples
- “Post this on the Millgate Refit message board so the whole team sees it.”
- “Write the client's brief into the project's Docs & Files as a document.”
- “Add the handover meeting to the Millgate Refit schedule for 11 September.”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Basecamp
Create task
Add a to-do or a card
Update task
Complete, reassign, re-date or rename a to-do or a card
Move task
Move a to-do to another list, or a card to another column
Delete task
Trash a to-do or a card
Add note
Comment on a to-do, post, document, file, event or card
Read a record
Read a post, document, to-do, card or event with its comments
Create document
Write a document in a project's vault
Edit document
Edit a document or a message-board post
Send message
Post to a message board or a Campfire
Create draft
Draft a message-board post without publishing it
Save file
Save a file to a project's Docs & Files
Attach file
Attach a file to a to-do, post, document, event or card
Create project
Create a project or a to-do list
Create calendar event
Add an event to a project's schedule
Reschedule or edit event
Reschedule or edit a schedule entry
Cancel event
Cancel a schedule entry
Add follower
Subscribe someone to a to-do, or add them to a project
Look up tasks
Look up open to-dos
Look up calendar
Look up a project's schedule
Search messages
Look up message-board posts
Find pages
Look up documents
Try it with a real email.
Forward any work email to the address below and see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Basecamp?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a line saying which project it belongs in and what should happen, like "add a to-do on the Millgate Refit project for Owen, due 4 September". ForwardThis creates it, puts the email in the notes, and replies to confirm with a link. The first time, you'll need a free account with Basecamp connected, which takes about 30 seconds - that's the entire Basecamp email integration.
- Can I choose which project and to-do list it lands in?
- Yes. Name the project, and the to-do list inside it if you want a particular one, and that's where it goes. Name only the project and it goes on the first list. You can assign it to people by name in the same line, and set a due date. It can make a new to-do list, or a whole new project, if the one you named isn't there yet.
- Can it post to the message board or a Campfire?
- Yes. Say "post this on the message board" with a subject and it goes up as a post, or name the Campfire and it drops a line in the chat instead. Because everyone on the project sees either one, ForwardThis shows you what it's about to post for a quick OK first. Everything else, like a to-do or a document, it just does and tells you.
- What if it lands in the wrong project?
- Undo works for 24 hours. Everything in Basecamp, a to-do, a comment, a document, a message, goes to the same trash you'd use yourself, so nothing vanishes and you can pull it back from Basecamp too. That's also why even a message-board post can be undone here, once you've said yes to it.
- How is this different from Basecamp's own email-in address?
- Basecamp gives each message board and to-do list its own email-in address, so you have to find the right one, and whatever you send becomes the post as it arrived. If you always send the same kind of thing to the same place, that works well. When you want one address for every project, and to say in the email whether this is a to-do for Owen due Friday or a document for the vault, that's this.