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We limited our feature use to just ‘Projects’ and ‘Messages’ for a few reasons. Having her work with us in Basecamp was simple, and we avoided confusion we'd experienced on every other platform.

The solution was simple: we set up a new project, imported the few chapters she needed to work on, and gave her access to that one project. I wanted her to submit unusual findings and fact-check chapters, but I didn’t want to open up access to content in Basecamp that was irrelevant or that could be confusing. In 2010, I had a very sharp researcher and trained lab scientist (Alexandra Carmichael of ) help me with some of the technical science in the book. Basecamp became the war room for all things related to Project 4-Hour Body. Every few days, I’d quickly look over all of the new posts from the Dashboard, and leave comments on a few of the messages. Right away, it made things 10 times easier, and I had Charlie start putting all of his other book-related work in Basecamp.įor instance, he would post useful “Tools and Tricks” that supplemented each chapter, and would have Basecamp send me a notification email whenever he posted something he wanted me to review. In December of 2009, we started using Basecamp to keep track of all revised chapters. Keeping things in order was hard, and we spent at least 20% of our time looking for the right versions of docs. Within the first week, it became very clear that emailing back-and-forth was going to be a major time-suck and liability. He’d track his changes in Word and email the files back to me. The new book was a much, much bigger project than “The 4-Hour Workweek”, so I hired and trained an assistant (Charlie) to help me keep everything organized and actionable.Īt the end of 2009, I was sending Charlie chapters of the book to review. It covers everything: rapid fat-loss, better sex, better sleep, and I tested everything on myself with doctors and black-market scientists.

For the last three years, I’ve been working on my new book, “The 4-Hour Body,” which is a minimalist guide to hacking the human body. I am an angel investor based in San Francisco (Twitter, StumbleUpon, Evernote, Posterous, etc.), and am best known for my first book, “The 4-Hour Workweek,” which has been sold into 35 languages.

Below, author and investor Timothy Ferriss describes how he used Basecamp and Highrise to write his new book.