hello everyone and welcome back to the key products youtube channel it is francesco here
and i'm very lucky today to be diving into base camp which is a project management application
we're going to be reviewing the full experience and what it offers as well as giving you an idea
of whether this is best suitable for you and your team now basecamp is in its third version
and it has two main plans i don't normally talk about pricing before but i always think
it's so beneficial to know what you're sort of getting with your plans they do have somewhat of a
free plan but somewhat of a full paid plan and it is a bit more expensive than the others but i'll
explain why it actually benefits in the long term here for a moment so they have base camp business
and as you can see 99 per month which is quite a high amount a lot of people will go wow actually
okay that's quite a lot but with that plan you get unlimited projects unlimited users and no
per user fee so in comparison would say another project management application which charges like
nine dollars per month per user it doesn't grow with the amount of people you have so for example
if you have more than 10 or 15 people it might actually be more cost effective in the long run
in comparison with some of the other pricing plans however again watch this video to find
whether it's more suitable for you and as you can see it has up to 500 gigabytes storage plan which
is fairly reasonable for you to store everything and even things externally as well as clients
we'll touch on the client experience near the end of this video but they also do have something
called basecamp personal which we've done a review on if you want to check out fully but it's like a
condensed version of this it gives you one gigabyte storage 20 users and three plans
so this might be better if you're more sort of a solo user or i even said families are using this
in terms of planning however you can also you know get a good start with it work out whether it's for
you before actually committing to the more sort of the business associated stuff now base camp
believes that they're trying to save you money on all of the other experiences trying to replace
slack asana all of this sort of other g suite as well but what i want to do is is sort of overview
how it works and and how it operates so you have a better idea when it comes to making a decision
so as you can see here this is a base camp and as you can imagine it's currently on the web version
i believe they do have a mac windows ios and android app that runs quite well but as you can
see it's it's different as a first look compared to other applications this is your home page
and here are all your projects that you're working on in front of you
and you can see your assignments and schedule over here so as you can imagine i can enter a project
and i can start inviting some people but i could also start a message board this is for updates and
announcements essentially trying to replace the likes of maybe slack or um the comments system
that you have inside say asana to do's in terms of what you need to get done documents in terms
of attaching things that are internal and external you know internal pdfs to external figma documents
and campfire which is a great place to chat about more random stuff that may naturally
incur and you can also see upcoming dates that may affect your project as well as automatic
check-ins so you can ask recurring questions so you don't have to pass the team members about
it and down here any project updates that may not be suitable so let's go on to do's just to
give you an example what this sort of to-do list experience is like for example here i can add a
to-do like in this case i need to brief animators as a next thing to do you can attach a file or
just add it to list straight away and as you can see here it automatically sort of gives
you sort of an another to do to do but you can see whether this is completed or in progress
and i'd go back to my to-do's you can see that task there and you can view it in different ways
you can view it as a card if you want to and you can sort of add even subtasks as well as well as
more details and you can even add it to certain groups up here you can bookmark it which i'll
come to in a minute and you can track it on this hill chart if you want to the progress of it
and you can click update if you want to adjust the position of the progress so just a small thing
a small update on that but just something quite cool as you can see you can remove the hill chart
settings there but as you can imagine you can be able to track progress on to-do's using that
so to-do's are a great way to be able to sort of allocate some tasks to get working on and
one of the ways that you can see it is this new feature called lineup which is something that dave
allowing you to see a project based on a timeline so if i go back to home and i go to
bento and i click in here i should be able to add a due date up here actually to the actual
project so in this case if i go add a start date say start tomorrow and finish this on in march and
save you can go over to line up and you can start to see that this project is spanning across those
that time period so lining up if you have multiple projects is quite a nice sort of zoom out what
you're working on what's ending soon what's being progressed in one view and that's fairly nice to
have at a glance now if i go back over to home and then go into bento again you can see the docs is
fairly easy you can see here that i what i can do is actually can start a new document
so it actually has internal document creation which might save you on the likes of google
docs you can also create and upload files from any sort of format and also have imports or link files
from applications like adobe creative cloud figma icloud drive notion etc so that you don't miss out
on anything that might not be suitable for you and you can download the full folder at the end
which is perfect more for you know people that you want to just be able to collect everything that's
part of that project especially beneficial for clients relations and things like that
you've also got this message board where you can post an update we announced a logo and
what you can do is maybe even add a photo of that and i'm going to post this message and you can
see here that that gets posted to the group and other people can communicate with that and you
can see it in different sort of roundups you can see things that are like pictures questions and
things like that you can narrow it down which is quite nice so message board is a nice place one
thing i really like is it sort of previews it here and campfire is sort of a good example of that
you can create events events and schedules so if you want to create a new event up there you can
now the best way to demonstrate this is actually seeing a sample project and this is really what
it looks like when it's in full use over on this left-hand side you can see people's updates and
how to interact and who's posting in the campfire which is more of sort of like a live chat to
some extent and you can see any schedule items that are coming up and you can take them off as
well and you can see who's involved in specific engagements so it's really neat you can also get
automatic check-ins so this is a way to be able to see whether you have any future ideas for the team
and people can post their concepts and and things like that but it's a way for you to get the ball
rolling with conversations without necessarily having to commit to specific plans now if i go
to home i showed you sort of project concepts you can see here that anything that comes up in your
schedule will appear on this bottom panel here now pings up here is a way to automatically private
chat with somebody so you can get the ball rolling on a certain fix hey is where you get all of your
notifications activity is where you can see what the hum of the company is whether there's gonna be
need to do's added where's the overdue to do's that they're somebody else's work in your team
that you might wanna tune in on for example if you're a manager and you see that somebody's been
stuck on a project for a while you can might be able to help them out now one thing i really like
in my stuff is the sort of my assignments areas where you can see some progress you're making
my bookmarks which is perfect for saving little elements whether that's documents to do's files
or information throughout that you might want to come back to later but it's very personalized
view it doesn't disrupt anybody else you can see your schedule on its own your drafts which is nice
and recent activity and things like that and over on this right side you can actually find specific
things that are across your base camp account now as you can see i'm on 30 days of the trial
of the base camp and you can see here that i can upgrade my plan now as you can see there
is a monthly plan and as i said it gives you up to 500 gigabytes but they also have a yearly plan
which bumps you up to one terabyte storage total and also gives you two months free on
this plan and one year money back guarantee if you don't find it suitable which is crazy really
because if you found that somebody got to dave 300 that 364 then you could cancel but
mental really and they say that up to 120 000 teams have joined base camp and have upgraded
already so it's already being used by quite a fair amount of people now this is really designed for
remote and async work so it's much more suitable for those teams who are more globally based and
that don't necessarily micromanage their team as much or don't find the need to because their work
is much more sort of orientated towards much more natural communication with other people
however it's really a different experience to a lot of the other project managers in other project
managers you get much more flexibility of views in my opinion this is much more suited for those who
have been able to play around with it and commit to it versus those who have come from uh project
management applications that really want to stick with that traditional setup there is a lot of pros
to having this experience it's a lot more led sort of hands off however it doesn't give you
that sort of original flexibility of views that you would tend to have with other applications
so that's just something to know and also they do have a client like experience so you can go and
find it on the got clients page but for example if you want to share externally with the client
you can allow the client to see what progress you're making with certain areas and what's
really nice is they can comment and feedback which reduces meetings and also allows them to
give it feedback that relates to the project and see different versions and they can grab all the
files without them having to ask which is really nice and you can actually connect it to email so
that it whenever you post something in the actual thread inside of basecamp it will actually forward
to the client so you're not chopping and changing and going to email quite often i've actually used
this weirdly for client work only a couple of times when when i was doing like freelance
sort of branding and marketing and i was actually fairly impressed with how it worked because
it found the other person on the other side found that it was easier to be able to stop nudging them
and see everything and make progress on the project without constant emails so i actually
found it quite easy to use although it has changed a bit since basecamp 2 which i was
using but probably for the better and as you can imagine probably more suitable now again they do
have the versions you can download and you can see here's ios android mac pc and etc so i'm probably
only viewing it on the web version so it's not as necessarily fine-tuned as many people would expect
you can have ad mid-land as well where you can go and change your different sort of the settings for
you and your teams who's administrating and one thing that's quite nice as well is they do have
turn on focus mode so you can block notifications you can see that you're focusing and other people
will get that notification as well and out of office so you can really indicate that you're
out between specific dates this is something that actually apps like twist have but this is nice
because it it fully commits you when people see that card so that you're really confidently out
of office again you can add more teams as well this is something i didn't sort of touch on and
you can have project templates as well which you can actually create yourself which might save you
a bit more time and getting things set up lineup is a fairly new feature but um something that
will save you a bit of time connecting things up and yeah that was a overview of base camp it's
available on all of those devices you can find it through basecamp.com the link will be
in description from the people who have used it they found it to be one of the better places to
manage their team especially remote and async and you can find all the details below
hopefully you found this video useful and whether it gave you a bit of insight about
where the base camp suitable for you feel free to leave any comments of your particular situation
or email me directly and i'll be happy to help and there's always that base camp personal plan which
might be more suitable for smaller team members anyway folks a huge thank you for stopping by
let me know if you have any questions and i'll talk to you all very soon cheerio
you