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Send emails to Basecamp
Turn any email into a Basecamp to-do in seconds, without leaving your inbox. It works with every email provider, and there is nothing to install or set up.
Martin Doyle
Revised drainage plan for Riverside
drainage-plan-rev3.pdf
Your instructions
Add a to-do on the Riverside project to review this plan, with the PDF attached.
Basecamp
Add a to-do to review the plan
Riverside, with the PDF attached
You receive a confirmation email once complete, with an undo button that works for 24 hours.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "add a to-do on the Riverside project to review this plan, with the PDF attached".
The to-do appears on the project's list, assigned and dated from your instructions, with the email's files attached as a comment on it.
You receive a confirmation email containing a link to the new to-do, plus an undo button if something doesn't look right.
What is ForwardThis?
ForwardThis is an AI email assistant that turns email into action in 144+ of the apps you use every day.
Works with any email
Compatible with any personal or professional email provider. Gmail, Outlook and more.
144+ apps
Works across the apps you already use, with more added every month.
Setup in seconds
Nothing to install and no workflows to build. Sign up, forward an email, and it runs.
Secure & private
ForwardThis only acts on the emails you send it, and the email is deleted within 24 hours of the work being done.
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
FAQs
- How do I send an email to Basecamp?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "add a to-do on the Riverside project to review this plan". ForwardThis adds the to-do and replies with a link. The first time, you will need a free ForwardThis account with Basecamp connected. It takes about 30 seconds.
- Which project does the to-do go on?
- Whichever your instructions name. You can also name a particular to-do list; otherwise the to-do goes on the project's first list.
- Can it assign the to-do and set a due date?
- Yes. Name the people and the date in your instructions and the to-do is created with them set.
- Can it do more than to-dos?
- Yes. ForwardThis can also save the email's files into a project's Docs & Files, write a document in the vault, or add an event to the schedule. Message-board and Campfire posts always wait for your approval first, because everyone on the project sees them.
- Doesn't Basecamp have its own email-in address?
- It does. Every Basecamp project can receive forwarded email, which lands in the project's Forwards section for people to read. The difference is that ForwardThis turns the email into a real to-do on the right list, assigned and dated, and replies with a link to it.
- Does it work with Outlook and other email apps?
- Yes. ForwardThis works with any email provider: Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and everything else. If it can forward an email, it works.
- What happens to my email afterwards?
- It gets deleted. ForwardThis holds your email briefly in case you press undo, then removes it completely. Nothing is stored long term.