Grouping To-dos

A To-do Group is like a sublist on a list. It has a header, and to-dos grouped below. 

Creating To-do Groups

To-do groups are excellent for organizing work around disciplines (to build this feature designers need to do this, programmers need to do that, and when QA finds something fishy they can log things, too). Or for moving work through phases. You can drag to-dos between phases, set up work in advance, and even keep future phases empty until it’s time to slot work in.

Screenshot of a to-do list in Basecamp where you can see groups created for to-dos

There are two ways to make a group of to-dos on a list:

  • To make an empty group (which you can fill later), click the hamburger menu to the left of the list name. Select Add a group:

Screenshot of a to-do list with multiple to-dos selected. A context menu is open and the arrow is pointing at the Add a group option.

  • To group together to-dos that are already on a list, press Command (Mac) or Control (Windows) and click the hamburger menu to the left of each to-do you want to group (or shift-select a range to-dos), and select the Group them option in the menu. 

Screenshot of a to-do list with a context menu open and an arrow pointing at the Group them option.

Groups can be copied or moved from the ≡ menu to the left of the Group name:

Screenshot of the context ≡ menu open for a to-dos group

Converting a group into a new list

It's natural for to-do groups to evolve and need to become their very own to-do lists. You can make that change easily in Basecamp!

To convert a group into a list, click the three horizontal lines just to the left of the group. You'll see the New list from group option there to convert this group into a list:

The other way to do this is by clicking on the ••• menu to the right of the to-do group:

Screenshot showing how you can create a new list from group (via ••• menu button)

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