Discussions
Try it FreeA clutter-free environment for your conversations
Task spaces can easily become overwhelmed by the conversations you have over the course of a project. It starts off with one or two easy to answer questions, but before you know it’s a messy thread of questions, half-baked ideas, and off-topic chatter. None of these things are bad. In fact, they’re often critical to the success of a project, but they can make it hard to find important project information.
Out Solution
The Discussions app gives you a way to have full, linkable conversations outside of the task. No more scrolling through random questions.
Threaded conversations and more
Discussions give you an organized place to ask questions, have conversations about your projects, and brainstorm ideas that may not be ready to introduce into the project. Discussions can be organized into lists, with topics that can be moved around between the lists, as needed.
You end up with conversations that are searchable, attached to specific tasks, and shareable. Need to discuss something with a team member or a client in private? We got you covered. All new comments from followed discussions are forwarded to client emails and they can reply without the need to log in. Keep your tasks dedicated to the actual work. And keep conversations and decisions making in Discussions.
Unload out of scope conversations
When you’re busy, you don’t have time to sift through the miscellaneous conversations you’ve had to find important information about the projects you’re working on. Discussions let you to sequester them from the main task by giving you a dedicated forum for conversations.
A place to brainstorm ideas
Some ideas are good, but they’re not quite ready to be included in a project. Discussions gives you a place to work through ideas as they come to you and your team. You can create threads filled with ideas and research to help you build out ideas. When you’re ready, they can be worked into the project.
Universal search
Discussions are fully searchable, so you can quickly find and pull out the ideas that you’re looking for. You can even search through archived conversations to find ideas from older projects. And, Freedcamp lets you search through the files that are attached to your discussions.
Email responses
You don’t have to be logged into Freedcamp to participate in conversations. You can email in replies and files using any email provider. We also support Gmail and Outlook integrations that make it even easier to to post an external response to a discussion. You can also email-in an entire email thread to prevent unmanageable threads by pushing it to Discussions.
Flexible permissions
Our permissions let you include whoever you want in your discussions. Outside clients can be granted access to conversations, without having to open up your entire system to them. You can even make it so specific members of your team have access, so you can have conversations related to aspects of the project that don’t involve the rest of the team.
Attach all the necessary files and documents
Bring any relevant files and documents into the conversation. You can upload them directly to Freedcamp, or via any cloud drives that you use, Like Dropbox or Google Drive.