How does the sync with Outlook work?

Thanks for posting this. I love the sync option because I use outlook to get my contacts to my phone (t-mobile dash). It is great to have my supporters #'s and addresses in my phone for trips and for calling when I'm driving for relationship building.

The appointment synching is great, and we use it constantly (esp. with Outlook 2007's color-coded categories). The problem is mismatch in synching contacts -- Tnt treats a couple as a couple, with various descriptive labels available, whereas the optimum way for Outlook (for email) and subordinate contact managers (cell phones) is to treat each contact individually. Right now, if you sync, you wind up with multiple email addresses for "John and Jane Doe," which makes life with Outlook cumbersome, and the same goes for cell phone numbers.  One path forward would be to allow for specific/designated fields for these key items -- by that, I mean that there would be a Husband's Cell Phone and Husband's email address and a Wife's Cell Phone and Wife's email address defined. (You'd need to use more generic titles, since you don't want to have a single woman's email and cell under "Husband's Cell Phone," etc.)  With that, the sync would then need to allow the couple to be "split" in Outlook and other contact managers -- each spouse would get their home address, home phone number and other common data, but would carry only their individual email and cell phone into the appropriate entries. That way, when I address an email to "John Doe," it would resolve to John's email address, not to the "John and Jane Doe" entity. I'm guessing this is mostly "duh" stuff to Troy and company, and I know there are other issues (we have several people with more than single email addresses per person, etc.), but the fundamental need to break up couples to work effectively in external contact managers is there. There's a sentence that isn't very encouraging to type!

Dear Bret - thanks for your comments! Re: the husband/wife issue - I have faced the same problem. If I need to, I have the husband/wife entry be the "master" one - where all financial partnershp info, communication history, etc is kept. If I need separate contact info for the wife, then I create a "wife only" contact entry in tnt and put the wife's cell number, email address, etc in there. Not a beautiful solution - but one that seems to have worked for me reasonably well so far.

I have 2000 contacts in Outlook (Google Apps contacts) and I do not want all of them to come over to TNT when I sync.

I have 500 contacts in TnT.

Is it possible for TnT to only sync the 500 contacts in TnT with the same 500 in Outlook?

In this way, the 500 will remain synced without adding the other 1500 to TnT.

So it is "one-way" in terms of which contacts, but "two way" in terms of syncing the fields.

@Rick, This is my question, too. Right now, I'm syncing to a separate contact list in Outlook, so that I can then upload that list to Constant Contact. It's a bit cumbersome, with too many steps. But I'm sure thankful for TnTmpd! (and wish it had a better name!)

Hi Rick, you can synchronize a subset of contacts between TntMPD and Outlook.

Clay, what's wrong with the name?

Rick i find that in Outlook if i put names in a category then i keep them all in the "contacts" folder in outlook. then when i'm syncing i just sync that category. once you basically get it setup then no need to keep choosing the category. When a new supporter comes into TNTMPD that is already in outlook but you haven't been syncing it the program will find it and ask you if this is the correct person to match it with. if you don't have it in outlook you can choose to copy it over to outlook when you are syncing. then later go into outlook and put it into a category.