Reality Check: Basecamp E-mail Integration

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I mentioned briefly over on Flyingtroll that I was going to start playing with the Basecamp API a bit. I did that this afternoon, and built a bit of an e-mail interface for interacting with Basecamp.

It’s pretty basic at the moment, it lets you send messages to “email_td@domain.com” in order to add a to-do assigned to a specific person, or “email_mile@domain.com” in order to add a milestone to a specific person. Also planned are adding messages, and adding files over e-mai, adding general to-dos and general milestones and having it mail you a list of your to-dos and milestones.

First off, if you’re a Basecamp user, is this a good idea? Essentially you’ll set up e-mail addresses for people on each project and be able to interact with things that way.

Second, am I missing something that you would see as essential from the list above? Message categories (I was just going to post everything to a single category)? Multiple to-do lists (I hadn’t thought about how to deal with it yet — if you have a suggestion, feel free to chime in).

Once it’s a little further along, I’ll open it up for some other folks to try: so if you’re interested, leave a comment with your e-mail address and I’ll get back to you.

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Published:
03.16.08 / 7pm
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