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Basecamp Integration

The short answer: open Basecamp, click into a message board or to-do description, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), speak your complete update for 60-120 seconds, and AICHE inserts formatted text.

Basecamp's message boards and to-do lists encourage thorough documentation, but typing detailed project updates takes 15-20 minutes. Speaking captures context faster than typing while maintaining completeness.

1. Open Basecamp in your browser.
2. Navigate to a project and open a message board or to-do list.
3. Click into the text field.
4. Press your AICHE hotkey to start recording.
5. Speak your complete update (example: "Post project update to the team message board. This week we completed the user authentication overhaul including JWT token implementation, refresh token rotation, and Redis-based session management. Deployed to staging environment and all integration tests passing. Discovered performance bottleneck in database queries that we optimized using query caching. Next week focus areas: finalize API documentation, conduct security audit with external penetration testing firm, and prepare production deployment checklist. Blockers: waiting on legal review of updated terms of service before enabling new signup flow. Team velocity is strong with 85% of planned story points completed").
6. Press the hotkey again-AICHE transcribes, applies Message Ready formatting, and inserts the text.
7. Add formatting, attachments, or mentions using Basecamp's editor.

Heads-up: Basecamp's to-do items work great with voice. Dictate the complete task description with acceptance criteria, then break it into subtasks manually using Basecamp's checklist feature.

The pro-tip: use voice for weekly updates to message boards. Speaking forces you to synthesize progress naturally, creating better summaries than bullet-point lists typed under time pressure.

Result: comprehensive project updates with progress details, blockers, and next steps that took 18 minutes to type now take 3 minutes to dictate, and teams get more context because speaking is effortless.

Do this now: open Basecamp, navigate to a project message board, press your hotkey, and dictate one weekly update summarizing what your team accomplished, what's coming next, and any blockers needing attention.