Comments: How does TntMPD 3.0 help me sync with my iPhone or Android phone via Outlook?

@herewego, thanks for sharing this cool tip!

I just found a mac-friendly workaround for editing contacts on iOS!

Perhaps others have used this before, but I'm sharing in case this can help anyone else.  I realized that the Mailchimp sync in tntConnect is a two-way street.  The Mailchimp iOS app can add/edit contact info that can then be synchronized back into TNT.

One drawback is that Mailchimp requires an email address for every contact, so any contacts without an email address can't be added via synchronization or with their app.  But once you turn on mailing address and phone number syncing, Mailchimp will poll for those fields when adding a new contact (though you can leave them blank).  Any changes to existing contacts will be imported back into tntConnect, even matching a new mailchimp contact with an existing TNT contact.  Conflicting data created an "Investigate" task to show that information was updated and allow you to commit the changes in TNT.

While this doesn't help with calendars or recording email history, for me, this is enough functionality to prevent me from installing parallels/outlook on my mac just for the synchronization.

Unfortunately, as of TntConnect 3.4, it still only syncs with Outlook on the PC side.

I really love what I am seeing in the TNT Connect Mac software...but I have to be able to get the basic contact info, including Referre by and Google "Group" multiple assignments each contact back into Google Contacts and thus to my phone.  Do I really have to stop using TNT Connect for Mac, and do it all with outlook and TNT on Windows under VM Ware fusion?

Hi Billy, TntConnect can export contacts to a CSV file.  And I believe Google can import contacts from a CSV file.  If you can group or tag those contacts to keep them separate, I'm not sure.

If I'm missing this in this or another post just point me there. I don't use outlook. I'm on a mac, using google contacts (cru.org not free gmail), and an android phone. Is there a way to get my TNT contact data to my phone without using outlook? And is there a way to isolate my TNT contacts from all of my other google contacts? Thanks!

For this Google Apps account, he can us the "Google Apps Sync" plug-in for Outlook.  For his free Gmail account, he can use GSyncIt:  www.fieldstonsoftware.com/.../gsyncit4 which syncs his Outlook Contacts with his Gmail contacts.  TntConnect can't "guarantee" no duplicates, but it shouldn't be a problem.  TntConnect remembers the mapping between the TntConnect contact is and the Outlook contact id, so if you sync, then update a contact on either side, then sync, you shouldn't be creating new contacts, just updating existing ones.

Troy, If I have a user who uses TnTConnect with a company dataset (Google Apps Account) and a personal dataset (person Gmail account) and wants to sync both sets of Contacts with an Android what would you suggest?  He wants to be on the road and update the phone contacts then sync them back to TnTConnect.  Is there a method yet that can eliminate Outlook or is that still the only method for a PC environment?  Also, how do you "guarantee" not to get duplicates in the syncing process if you update a contact (Gmail or Google Apps) on the Android?

Troy if this could start syncing across google contacts directly somehow, that'd go straight into mac user ability.  I'd pay money for that!  It'd really help.  This tool is significantly helping our ministry in New England already.  Is there any other simple work-around to get more mac friendly?  Majority of our volunteer leaders are on mac as well!  Thanks brother!

Good question.  Does a Blackberry sync to Outlook directly?  Or to Google Contacts?

Hi

does this work at all on a blackberry?

John

Looking forward to TntMPD 3.1 for eliminating the need for Outlook. I am using it only for sync with Google Contacts. The two-step sync has issues. GO Contact Sync Mod thinks every contact in Outlook is modified every time so it copies every contact regardless whether anything really changed. Also to ensure all changes are copied both directions, it requires three sync operations: TntMPD <-> Outlook, Outlook <-> Google, and then TntMPD <-> Outlook again to get the Google changes back to TntMPD.

James, TntMPD still sync with Outlook as far back as Outlook 2000.

Duane, for now you need Windows (on your Mac via VMware, perhaps) to sync TntMPD with Outlook.  But TntMPD 3.1 will work on your Mac without any need for Windows or Outlook.

Looking forward to v. 3.1 because I don't have outlook, and the $ for that is not worth it. Any chance this will work from the mac, or will I still need windows version of TNT?

Duane

Will this work with Outlook 2002/2003?