Basecamp
New in Basecamp: Redesigned messages section
We just launched a redesigned message section in Basecamp. The redesign brings current discussions to the top of the screen for easy discoverability and quick access. We also cleaned up the message design and added avatars to each message in the list.
New in Basecamp: Reply to assignment emails
When you assign a to-do or milestone to someone in Basecamp you have the option of notifying them via email. If you check the box, the person will receive an email listing the to-do or milestone, along with a link back to that to-do or milestone…Now people can reply to the initial notification email for to-dos or milestones and the reply will be automatically posted to the project as a comment. No more potential for lost communications.
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Campfire
New in Campfire: Chat highlights and improved transcripts
The first improvement are chat highlights. Highlights let you mark any line in the chat room with a star. Those starred chats then appear in a special “highlights” section of the transcript letting anyone in your group see what you and others thought was interesting or important on that day. Highlights are a great way to save a chat you’d like to refer to later or emphasize in your group.
New in Campfire: Formatted Tweets
Now you can actually read the tweet in the chat – you don’t have to click over to Twitter to read it anymore. And there’s a bonus: Any tweet you paste into Campfire is now searchable in your transcripts.
Highrise
New in Highrise: A redesigned “stream”
The date is black and bold like before, but the other data is treated more like a traditional email header in an email application. Each main point gets its own line. It’s smaller and a different size/color than the content below. You know where the data ends and the content begins. There’s only one key link on the left side above the content.
New in Highrise: Search for cases and deals in the sidebar
We’ve always had a search field in the sidebar that let you jump straight to a contact. Start typing a name, see a list, hit return to go to the first one or use your mouse or keyboard arrow keys to jump around in the list. Today we added cases and deals to the search. Here’s what it looks like: