Basecamp is a project management tool with six main components called "cards": Campfire for chat, Messages for posting goals and plans, To-dos for assigning tasks, Schedule for events, Check-in for brainstorming, and Docs & Files for sharing documents. To use Basecamp, sign up on their website and create a new project by entering your company name, job title, and clicking a button. This will show you the project title, description, team members, and the six cards to manage tasks, messages, events, files and check-ins.

1. How to use Basecamp 3

2. Go to
www.basecamp.com

5. You can either Sign-up with
Basecamp,

7. …or Sign-up with your
Google account.

9. With this, I have signed-up
with my Google account.

10. Enter your company/organization.

11. Enter your job title.

12. Then click this green button.

13. Now we’re ready to roll!

14. Here you can see the title of
the project,

16. …the description of your
project

18. …the members of your team

20. …and the six tools in
Basecamp also known as
Cards.

22. Let’s discuss those six cards
one-by-one.

23. Campfire, is where you can
chat with members

24. …and share each others’
ideas.

26. Under the Message card is
where you can post your

27. …team’s goals and plans
which anyone can comment
to.

29. Here is a sample message.

31. Notice that you can place a
bookmark,

33. …share the message through
a link

35. …or send the message
directly to someone.

37. You can also move, copy,
archive and delete the
message.

39. On the end part of the
message,

40. …you can see an applause
sign which members can

41. …click to give the person who
posted the message

42. …a clap or like a tap-on-the-
back.

44. Then below are the
comments of the other
members.

46. On the lower part of the
page, you can manage

47. …who can be notified

48. …if ever someone comments
on this particular message.

50. You can either Select
Everyone,

52. …Select No One,

53. …or choose members to be
notified.

55. Choose from these two

56. …then click Save Changes.

57. To-dos, lets you assign a task
to someone

58. …and give him/her a due
date.

59. Click Make another list

60. Type-in a title.

61. Type-in the details or
attach a file.

62. Then click Add this list.

64. Let’s now add a new to-do

66. …and Assign it to..

68. Then click Add this
to-do.

69. This part denotes..

70. …the progress of your to-do
list.

71. As I have clicked the first on
the list,

73. …it has shown that half of the
to-do list

74. …was already done.

75. Schedule, has two parts:
What’s coming up? And
Looking back

77. …which lets you see the
things that needs

78. …to be done and things that
was already done.

79. Click this to create an
event.

80. Type-in the name of the event.

81. Edit the date and time.

82. Name the
person/s
concerned with
the event.

83. Place a check for
them to be
notified.

84. Add notes if
necessary.

85. Then click Publish this event.

86. Check-in, the card where you
can brainstorm with your
team

87. …and check on them on a
scheduled basis.

89. To set-up an automatic check-
in,

90. …click here.

91. Type the
question you
want to ask.

92. Add the
names of the
person/s you
want to ask.

93. Edit how
frequent the
question
should be
asked.

96. Then click,

97. Docs & Files, is where you can
upload important files,

98. …notes and images related to
your project.

100. Done with Basecamp 3
basics! Now go and start your
project!