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10 Reasons Why You Should Use Project Task Management Tools?

Project management is an essential skill for any business. It helps you to stay on track, monitor progress, and make sure that the tasks you’ve assigned to your team are completed on time. But with so many project task management tools available on the market, which one should you choose? In this article, we will explore the benefits of using project task management tools and help you to decide which one is best for your needs. Ready to get started? Let’s go!

Everyone's Talking About Toggle Tax: Here's Why

I first started talking about toggle tax when I started working with Mio in 2018. It didn’t have a name back then but we recognized that switching between apps all day had a detrimental effect on both our brains and our pockets. It was obvious that, when enterprises have multiple messaging apps, the time spent navigating from one app to another was causing a disconnect between employees and taking at least a few seconds to get to where they desired.

A comprehensive guide to remote project management

Project management is a broad discipline filled with countless details and touching every corner of a project. Keeping on top of all those details, tasks, and people can feel overwhelming even in ideal circumstances! As more and more teams have gone remote these days, many project managers are experiencing a new layer of complexity as they delve into a new type of project management: remote project management.

Inviting People to Collaborate in Basecamp - Basecamp Basics

Basecamp really shows off when it comes to collaboration and working with other people inside a project. In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team walks through how to invite someone into your account and adding them to a project. You'll learn about setting someone up as "On the Project" or "Just Following" and an important tip for inviting someone into a project that's already in progress.

Understanding the Basecamp Home Screen - Basecamp Basics

In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team walks through the Basecamp Home Screen. You'll learn how to add your company logo, pin your most important projects to the top, view projects in a list, and quickly jump between projects with a quick keyboard command.

Setting Up Basecamp Notifications - Basecamp Basics

Sometimes you want to get all the alerts, so you know the minute something happens in an important project. But other times, you just need to shut it all off so that you're not getting interrupted and can do focused work. In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team walks through how to adjust your Basecamp notifications for how you like to work. You'll learn about changing your notification settings from being either "On the Project" or "Just Following". Need to temporarily turn off notifications all together? This video reviews how to do that with What you Work Can Wait and Focus Mode.

Starting a Basecamp Project - Basecamp Basics

One of the best ways to get started in your new Basecamp account is to start a project. In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team walks through how to start a new project and explains invite-only projects vs. all-access projects, the five project tools that are on each project at start-up, and shows how to change, rename and duplicate tools within a project. You'll also learn how to link to an outside tool or service with the Doors feature.

What is a Basecamp Project? - Basecamp Basics

To understand how Basecamp works, you have to understand what a project is. In this Basecamp Basics video, Kimberly from Basecamp's Customer Success team explains the four ways that projects can be used – as a headquarters for your entire company, as a hub for an internal team or department, for time-based work, or as a subset of work from a larger project. Videos in the Basecamp Basics Series.