Goplan Shows What Basecamp Could Be

• Goplan

  Online collaborative project management tool similar to Basecamp. Definately a better interface than Basecamp, and with a few tweaks it could be way out in front. Some nice things offered that aren’t available in Basecamp are: -

  • Sub tasks
  • Due dates on task/sub tasks
  • Bug tracking

• Developing things like would certainly improve the proposition (although it looks like there have been some tweaks): -

  • Showing task owners and due dates on the Task Summary page (similar to the tickets summary page)

  • Ability to filter tasks to show those assigned to a given user

  • Re-ordering of tasks and subtasks. Currently you can only re-order task lists.

  • Inline editing of tasks and notes from the summary page (currently you click to view a task and the page refreshes on that specific task)

  • Ability to preview comments, notes etc before posting. This is particularly important since there is no wysiwyg editing and you have to use ‘textile’ markup.

  • Ability to edit a comment after posting. Once it’s posted your can’t change it.

  • Importantly I think they should offer a free 1 month trial with all features enabled. The free version doesn’t enable the calendar, which would be critical in evaluating the tool (especially those thinking of migrating away from basecamp)

  • Ability to import from basecamp (who offer an import/export tool).

    (tags: Business Collaboration Project Management Goplan Basecamp Tools)