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Then perhaps 37signals need to make exporting existing Basecamp data for easy importing into the "next step up" products. As far as I know they only provided a

Then perhaps 37signals need to make exporting existing Basecamp data for easy importing into the "next step up" products. As far as I know they only provided a raw XML data dump.

nettdata 15y ago
"Only"? How else would you have it provided to you? That's pretty well the most versatile form of the data you could get, I'd think.
- mgkimsal 15y ago
  Agreed. It's really up to those other products to develop import routines for BC data. Wordstar didn't develop 'save as MS Word' functionality, but MS did WS imports just fine.
jasonfried 15y ago
You can also export your data in HTML format so you can still view your projects locally on your own computer: http://help.37signals.com/basecamp/questions/164-can-we-export-our-data-if-we-don-t-want-to-use-basecamp-anymore-what-format-is-the-export-in http://help.37signals.com/basecamp/questions/164-can-we-expo...
SoftwareMaven 15y ago
You have it backwards: tools that want to be the next step in the chain should make it trivial to import Basecamp data. 37signals has done their part by making it easy to get data out.