Google Sync for Outlook - Notes and Tasks don’t have to be left out in the cold
To some folks, Microsoft Outlook Notes and Tasks are an important part of their Outlook environment, and depend on them almost as heavily as email, calendar, and contacts.
Google Apps syncs email, calendar, and contacts, but does not sync notes and tasks. This is an issue if you have Outlook on multiple computers, as running Google Sync for Outlook everywhere is a vital and convenient way to keep all Outlook installations up to date across all computers, except for notes and tasks that is!
Notes and tasks do remain available in Outlook on the computer where you’ve migrated to Google Sync for Outlook, only because the migration import process brings them across to your Outlook’s local profile into your local .PST file on your computer. However notes and tasks do not sync to your Google Apps account in the Google “cloud”. So there is no way to see Outlook notes and tasks when you sign in to your Google Apps account from a web browser.
Right about now you are looking at the great Tasks app in your Gmail environment and asking why can’t we sync from/to Outlook Tasks? No can do at this time.
So now we’ve established if you use Outlook with Google Apps Sync on two or more computers (say, a desktop at work and a laptop at home), notes and tasks you create on one computer won’t be available in Outlook when you open your Google Apps profile on the other computer. What to do?
Easy. Use the Bunch of Cowboys Funambol Sync Service for Outlook. Simply install a lightweight Outlook add-in configured to connect to Bunch of Cowboys Sync Services for Outlook Notes and Tasks. You’ll have the same Notes and Tasks everywhere, just like Google Apps email, calendars, and contacts.
Download and install the Funambol Outlook client, and contact us to take advantage of free access to the Bunch of Cowboys Funambol Outlook Notes and Tasks Sync Server. Your Notes and Tasks will no longer be Google Sync for Outlook’s poor cousins!
