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Can you hook into the basecamp API and suck basecamp to-dos into RTM? I realize this probably depends on us having nested to-do lists.
Basecamp is what I need to manage the big picture of projects, keep in touch with clients, and assign tasks to my team, subcontractors, and client staff.
But Basecamp is not a good tool for personal task management. However, copying basecamp to-dos into RTM is annoying and requires me to manually update both places.
Once you introduce nested lists, each Basecamp project could be an RTM list (tab). A basecamp to-do list could become a nested list on that tab, with tasks listed inside the nested sublist.
It's a little trickier without nested lists, but I'd still settle for a dump of all my tasks in a given project, directly into an RTM tab/list of the same name. I'd lose the in-between layer of to-do list names within Basecamp, but I can live with that -- especially if completing a task in RTM marks it complete in Basecamp.
Please, please, please? I'd love to talk about bounty-ing this if other folks are interested -- I'm assuming there is some clever person out there who could do a basecamp/RTM mashup using both of their APIs.
Posted at 6:27am on October 3, 2007
As an alternative, if they introduced dropdown groupings, each Basecamp project could be made into a dropdown menu, and each nested list into a list inside the dropdown.
That's assuming dropdowns worked for both smartlists and normal lists =)
Posted at 4:30pm on October 3, 2007
says:awsamuel - I'm well up for contributing to the bounty as it would be a huge bonus to me...
Posted at 3:50pm on October 15, 2007
This is a huge feature for me. Basecamp sucks on the iphone.
Posted at 11:39pm on January 14, 2008
+1 from me
Posted at 8:47am on April 25, 2008
+1 as well. I need a way to sync my work todos (managed through a group basecamp system in our dept) and my personal rtm account.
Posted at 9:02pm on May 12, 2008
+1 more. true, two-way sync is needed.
Posted at 5:11pm on May 22, 2008
says:+1 here as well. This feature would allow us to use RTM companywide.
Posted at 4:46pm on June 20, 2008
Would pay for that
Posted at 9:03am on July 6, 2008
+1
Posted at 3:06pm on July 10, 2008
yes please
Posted at 4:29am on July 30, 2008
says:+1 - Currently migrating some base-camp to-dos to RTM ... manually :(
Posted at 1:55pm on August 5, 2008
says:I love to see some RTM and BC integration
Posted at 5:54pm on August 5, 2008
Yes please - me too!
Posted at 12:11pm on August 12, 2008
+1 this would be huge benefit for us!
Posted at 4:10pm on August 25, 2008
says:+1 would definitely pay for this
Posted at 9:13pm on August 25, 2008
+1
Posted at 8:00am on August 26, 2008
+1 for integration with HighRise (also by 37 signals). I love how HighRise has contacts, but the tagging system and task management pales in comparison to RTM. If they could be linked together, that'd be awesome.
Posted at 12:49pm on August 26, 2008
+1 for RTM integreation
Posted at 9:34am on September 17, 2008
BC + RTM integration would make RTM even better. Way better.
Posted at 8:57am on October 29, 2008
says:Very much would love to have this feature. Huge benefit. I'd even be willing to pay for a pro account to have it.
Posted at 8:47pm on October 30, 2008
says:+1 for RTM Basecamp integration!
Posted at 2:14am on November 12, 2008
says:+1
Posted at 10:56pm on November 14, 2008
+1 this is a must have and will make or break continuing with RTM for me.
Posted at 9:35am on November 18, 2008
If this feature existed, my entire team (20 people) would be using RTM in a flash - and paying for it.
Posted at 8:23pm on December 10, 2008
says:yesh please. me wanttee
Posted at 11:57pm on December 17, 2008
says:+10 I manage several projects as one, and Basecamp's lack of Due Dates for tasks forces me to copy my to-dos into RTM
Posted at 12:18pm on December 31, 2008
+1 - This would be enormous for me. I currently manage all my major projects in basecamp and use RTM for personal tasks. I then subscribe my RTM tasks and basecamp milestones to my google calendar (which is auto-synched to my outlook and therefore my iPhone). It's complicated, but so far works well, EXCEPT that I can't see my RTM tasks and basecamp to-do's on ToDo on my iPhone since I can't get my basecamp to-do's on RTM.
One thing I tried is to set my RTM dropbox email as my basecamp email and then mark my to-do's as milestones that get emailed. But then the email comes over as a generic inbox task without any info since I can't format the basecamp email into any RTM format.
Anyhow, this would be great and I would pay, I'm already a pro plan member.
Posted at 4:25pm on January 14, 2009
bump, anyone have an update or suggestions?
Posted at 2:37pm on January 19, 2009
says:+1 copying and pasting tasks cannot be the only solution...
Posted at 12:25am on January 24, 2009
Another bump - can someone from RTM team at least tell us if this is in the works?
Posted at 6:20pm on January 29, 2009
+1 great feature
Posted at 9:24pm on January 29, 2009
says:+1 (Integration with the whole 37 signals suite would be nice)
Posted at 11:04am on January 30, 2009
+1 agree with gmonty
Posted at 3:45pm on January 30, 2009
says:I'm definitely going to extend my subscription to RTM if Basecamp integration was added.
Posted at 10:30pm on February 2, 2009
+1 yes please!
Posted at 5:27am on February 6, 2009
bump here too. Any chance somebody from corporate monitors this thread, and can let us know if this is happening?
Posted at 3:18am on February 7, 2009
+1
Posted at 12:47pm on February 10, 2009
+1 AGAIN - any word from RTM regarding this, is it on the development roadmap or is there an integration out there somewhere?
Posted at 4:28pm on February 13, 2009
OK - I just wrote a quick Outlook macro that helps me out. I'll try to explain it here.
This macro runs in Outlook from a Rule. When I get an email from the notifications account of my basecamp account (which is the email notification of a ToDo item assigned to me), this script runs. It breaks apart the email and reconfigures it to a RTM email that then gets automatically sent to my RTM dropbox address.
Here is the example:
The email body I get from basecamp when I assign a ToDo item:
Company: Peak Process Solutions Group
Project: Our House Website
You have just been assigned the following to-do item by Mark Wiley :
Main List
* test this automatically
--
To view this to-do list, visit:
http://xxxxxxx.projectpath.com/L5269510
The script will reconfigure this email to this format:
Task: Our House Website - test this automatically
L:Project Work
Tags:Work
Basically - it takes my project name and adds the todo task text, assigns it to my Project Work list in RTM and adds the Work tag.
To create this, copy the following code and paste it into a Macro in Outlook:
Sub RunAScriptRuleRoutine(MyMail As MailItem)
txtBody = MyMail.Body
posStart = InStr(1, txtBody, "Project: ", vbTextCompare)
posEnd = InStr(1, txtBody, "You have just been ", vbTextCompare)
posStart = posStart + 9
txtProject = Mid(txtBody, posStart, posEnd - posStart)
posStart = InStr(1, txtBody, "* ", vbTextCompare)
posStart = posStart + 2
posEnd = InStr(1, txtBody, "--", vbTextCompare)
posEnd = posEnd - 1
txtToDo = Mid(txtBody, posStart, posEnd - posStart)
txtNewMessage = "Task: " & txtProject & " - " & txtToDo & "" & "L:Project Work" & "" & "Tags:Work"
Set MyItem = Application.CreateItem(0)
With MyItem
.To = "mark.wiley+dfc801@rmilk.com"
.Subject = "basecamp item"
.HTMLBody = txtNewMessage
End With
MyItem.Send
End Sub
Then go to Tools --> Rules in Outlook. Create a new rule that runs when you get an email from your notifications address from basecamp. Choose run a script as your action, and choose the macro you just created to run.
There are probably more elegant ways to do this, if so someone can run with it.
Hope it helps until the time comes for a proper integration.
Posted at 5:33pm on February 13, 2009
One note - remember to add your RTM inbox address to the Outlook macro, don't use the one I stupidly listed! (which I've had changed now... duh).
Posted at 5:50pm on February 13, 2009
Hi everyone - thanks for your suggestions re: Basecamp integration. I don't have any info on possible implementation at this point but will keep you posted.
Posted at 4:35am on February 26, 2009
thanks
ill be waiting
Posted at 12:04am on March 12, 2009
I would pay for this as well.
Posted at 3:15pm on May 18, 2009
says:same here
Posted at 1:08pm on June 19, 2009
+1
Posted at 6:56am on July 3, 2009
says:Me too
Posted at 9:54am on July 10, 2009
says:Hey Krissy - anything new on the integration with basecamp? Seems like there is a large user group who desperately wants this...
Any possible timeline would be great!
Posted at 4:10am on August 5, 2009
says:I have not seen seen Krissy here since April, I think, so I am very curious if she replies, Ryan. I thought she'd moved on from RTM.
Posted at 2:10pm on August 5, 2009
says:+1 please please
Posted at 3:15pm on August 20, 2009
says:+1 yes please. I would love for this to happen
Posted at 2:27pm on August 21, 2009
says:Just to let you know that we have tried to implement this as an application for all of you to use. Unfortunately Basecamp doesn't timestamp it's to-do's which means that we have no way to determine which application was the last to create, edit, or complete a task.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but until 37 Signals put a timestamp on their API stream, this is impossible.
I'll keep you posted if anything changes.
http://dropp.co.uk
Posted at 9:00am on August 25, 2009
says:+1
Posted at 4:02am on August 30, 2009
+1
I'll see if we can contact 37signals to have this added.
Posted at 8:38pm on September 8, 2009
says:Any response from 37signals? As a heavy user of both basecamp & RTM I find myself yearning for this on almost a daily basis...
Posted at 11:15am on October 20, 2009
says:+1
I wish I knew if it was in the roadmap or not. Then I could know if I should build a little webapp that does just this.
Posted at 4:28pm on October 31, 2009
says:Maybe you should.
+1 from me too btw.
Posted at 9:07am on November 17, 2009
says:They've just addes due dates on todo's don't know about timestamps though. Anyone know?
Posted at 8:13am on November 18, 2009
I would be interested and would upgrade to a premium account for Basecamp integration.
Posted at 7:13pm on November 19, 2009
says:+1 for pgilmore's message and question.
Posted at 8:38pm on November 19, 2009
says:Its unbelievable that until now you haven't made this possible. Hurry up. Keep on making my life easier ;-)
Posted at 12:31am on November 20, 2009
