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Insight - Basecamp on iPhoneCurrent Version: 1.5.1

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Insight (former Encamp) is a native iPhone application for Basecamp. It is designed specifically for mobile users, who wants to quickly get a status of their projects, assign, delegate, and complete tasks, post messages and comments, add time logs. And all of this using simple and powerful user interface.

FEATURES
- Dashboard: latest activity overview
- Projects: view all your active and archived projects
-- Overview and latest activity: project announcement and latest activity breakdown by date
-- Messages: filter by categories; create/update/delete messages; post comments
-- To-Do: create/update/delete lists and items; complete, uncomplete items; reorder lists and items; post comments, track time
-- Milestones: create/update/delete milestones; complete, uncomplete milestones; post comments
-- Time: view recent time entries; add new time logs
-- People: email, call, or map your collegues and clients; create new records in iPhone address book, or update existing records with information from Basecamp contacts
- My to-dos: track to-do items assigned to you across all projects

MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
Use Insight to rule as many Basecamp accounts as you want.

WRITEBOARDS
View and comment on writeboards right from Insight using mini-browser.

FILES
Now you can view files on your Basecamp projects. Only files recognized by iPhone platform are supported:
- PDFs
- image formats: GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG
- Office documents: Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations
- many plain-text files
Note: Due to Basecamp API limitations you cannot view what files are attached to a particular message or comment - only the list of files similar to "Files" tab on Basecamp.

NOTES
You need to have an Internet connection to use Insight. Your Basecamp account must have API enabled. There are also some limitations in Basecamp API for "client" users. Please visit Insight's support website to learn more.

The names and logos for Basecamp, and 37signals are registered trademarks of 37signals, LLC.

Insight is not affilated with 37signals in any way.
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Insight - Basecamp on iPhone Review

Access the Basecamp project-management tool on the go

by Jeff Whitfield, Macworld.com

Users of the Web-based Basecamp project management tool have plenty of options at the App Store for accessing Basecamp on the go. But of the half-a-dozen or so Basecamp-friendly apps, I like Encamp, which stands out thanks to a speedy interface and good workflow.


Project-Focused: Encamp, a mobile app that access the Web-based Basecamp project-management tool, lets you view all the projects on your account with a tap of the Projects Tab.

Encamp allows you to access all the things you would expect out of a Basecamp app—projects, messages, to-do’s, milestones, and more. The app from developer Alexander Batalov has three main tabs: Recents, Projects, and My To-Dos. Recents allows you to get an overview of your Basecamp site. My To-Dos provides a quick listing of the to-dos that are assigned to you.

The Projects tab is where the action is, though. From here you can view all the projects on your account and drill down to view and edit the messages, to-dos, and other information associated with a project.

Since no information is cached on the iPhone, Encamp requires a network connection at all times. Even then, syncing is fast and information loads up fairly quickly even on the EDGE network.

Encamp has some limitations; you can’t view files related to a project nor can you view attachments for messages and tasks. Since the iPhone can handle PDFs, Word documents, images, and other common file types, it would only make sense to have the ability to view these file types. Encamp is still a fairly new app, though, so hopefully future versions will include the ability to see file attachments.

Encamp is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.2 software update.

[Jeff Whitfield is a web developer out of Dallas, working on the open-source MODx project.]

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