Everyday enhancements
The papercuts, handled.
None of these is why you install an extension. They're why you keep it. Small fixes for the frictions you hit twenty times a day in Basecamp, from unread items to un-copyable links.
Six small fixes that add up.
Each one saves seconds. Twenty times a day, every workday, for the whole team.
Unread highlighting
A subtle border on to-dos, cards, and messages with activity you haven't seen. Scan a project and know instantly what moved since you last looked. How it works
Copy link, one click
A copy-URL button on item toolbars. Grab a permalink for the standup note without right-clicking around Basecamp's UI.
External links as dock cards
Project links to Figma, GitHub, or a client portal show up as full cards in the project's tool grid, and each person places their own.
Multi-line subtasks
Subtasks written across several lines keep their line breaks, and URLs inside them stay clickable. Notes stop collapsing into soup.
External links in a new tab
Optionally open links that leave Basecamp in a new tab, in messages, comments, docs, and subtasks. Basecamp's own navigation stays untouched.
Divider width control
Resize the horizontal divider in posts, comments, and chats. A small thing, exactly the kind that bugs you daily.
Quick answers.
Do I have to configure all of this? +
No. Unread highlighting, copy links, dock cards, and multi-line subtasks just work once the extension is installed. The behavior toggles, like opening external links in a new tab, live in Assistant's Options tab so each person sets their own.
Do these change Basecamp for teammates without the extension? +
No. These are viewing upgrades layered on your own browser. A teammate without the extension sees stock Basecamp, and nothing you toggle affects them.
Is this everything Assistant does? +
Not close. These are the garnish. The heavy lifting is the Kanban board, custom fields, automations, and the Docs & Files grid, each of which has its own page under Features.
Fix the little things today.
Install the free extension and feel the difference by lunch. 7-day trial, no credit card.