Don’t be intimidated by Basecamp’s simplicity
Basecamp’s simplicity often confuses those who come from other apps. It confused me years ago. But once you understand the flow, you will never use anything else.
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Earlier today I posted a screenshot of my base camp and the structure of it is exactly the same
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structure that I use for everything for my filing for my things for my apple notes and the three
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sections are actually quite simple it's work which is client work stuff that I'm doing for clients
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business which is obvious all my business stuff are in there my crm is in there etc
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and personal ie personal projects now I did use things for my projects and I do use apple notes
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for everything so there I won't be moving anything over but I found things not to be perfect for the
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the things that I want to do so personal project things like I want to do stuff with my truck I
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want to go on holiday and I need to get things done I think I'll probably move over to base camp
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the thing with base camp and this is kind of continuation from yesterday's video about
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you go and watch yesterday's video but people make things complicated software is complicated
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some software way more complicated than others now base camp being so incredibly simple
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and this is the issue I had with base camp before I used it years ago years ago was I never understood
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it I was like well this is a blank sheet of paper that doesn't do anything what's going where my
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tags where's this where's that and being a Tech Minimalist I realized that it was actually perfect
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because it doesn't confuse me as to what I'm doing when I open up that blank sheet of paper
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so I'm going to start using base camp more in my personal life kind of thing as because I
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use base camp for all my client work and client collaborations and stuff I don't use it as much
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as I should for my business side of things I kind of use apple notes for that and things was kind of
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my personal stuff so I will probably still use things for stupid little things I use reminders
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for hey Siri remind me to take the drinks out of the freezer I still use that for that but I think
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I want to use I'm going to use base camp for a lot more than just client work because it is so
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freaking simple like what what you can do with it and you shouldn't over complicate that and I've
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seen so many base camp I would call it dashboards their home pages and they're so complicated and
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they've got so many things going on and I basically go in there and simplify it just like you get rid
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of 90% of this stuff because you don't need it because those people have come from other apps
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like Monday and click up and notion so they've got that mentality of I need this for it to work and
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then they get frustrated because base camp doesn't do it but you don't need it again depending on the
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kind of work you do I work with individuals professionals and small businesses and it's
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absolutely ideal for them now there are companies that are much larger that still use base camp
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but generally they're in departments rather than the whole company depending on how how big that
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company is but yeah don't over complicate base camp and if you're interested in using base camp
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let me know and I can help you out but go and have a look at it and rethink the way you're
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working with your current tool and start again with base camp rather than bringing in all of
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that stuff that you used to do because you don't need to do it in base camp
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