7 Comments:

 Al W said...

Has your experience changed after using Yahoo AutoSync? I am forced into a similar situation as you. I used Yahoo Mail for home but for the last several years have sync'ed my Palm TX at Work (using mNotes). My calendar, tasks, memo's, and contacts were all sync'ed with our coporate email system (Lotus Notes). I received a notification today that this will be changing, we will not be allowed to sync corporate data with personal PDA's as of Thursday. My plan is to switch from using mNotes to Yahoo AutoSync since this would allow me to have my Yahoo Address book up to date.

November 13, 2007 9:02 AM    Jason Jerome said...

Sorry it's taken me so long to post (was out of the country). I'm still using Yahoo AutoSync and it still seems to be behaving the same.Which is not necessarily a bad thing since it is working, although with the same limitations I've previously listed. Unfortunately I think Yahoo is the only service that is even targeting the issue.I also have to mention that I found out that my company will be switching from Treos to Blackberry, which means it will be the first time in almost 10 years I'll be without a Palm. Who knows what a Blackberry syncs with :) Good luck

November 26, 2007 3:37 PM    Jason Jerome said...

Oh, I almost forgot. The AutoSync application add a "Intellisync Record Id" to almost everything. All my contacts now have a Note with the id in them, and the same when I tried to sync my Notes. Just something to keep in mind in case you noticing Palm records with all these IDs in them.

November 26, 2007 3:54 PM    Anonymous said...

I also tried for some days this AutoSync. But then I left it behind for 3 reasons:1) very slow. My Palm contains many data and even if I setup some filtered sync the process went thru all my palm record taking some time;2) yahoo contacts do not take all my palm contact information. For example it takes only one email address (but most of my contacts have several)3) I was really annoyed by the spam "Intellisync Record Id" that AutoSync spread all over inside my data.Walter

February 14, 2008 12:59 PM    Jorge Luis said...

I was looking for an online Calendar to my liking. Google is nice, but I prefer Yahoo just because of the tasks list that is not provided in Google.I was also looking for a straightforward way to sync with my Palm, and AutoSync does a nice job. So far, I have only one complaint. Tasks in my Palm Desktop get exported OK to Yahoo, but not vice versa. I have also tried the one way (Yahoo->PDA) option, and still the tasks in Yahoo do not show in Palm Desktop. Might be just me, or my PC, or my XP or such.Anyway, I've been considering switching to iPhone so I might have to re-do my search for Yahoo doesn't sync with iPhone, at least not yet.

June 25, 2008 4:24 PM    Matthew Reiser said...

page 10 of the iPhone 3G User Guide (http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPhone_User_Guide.pdf) seems to say that Yahoo<->iPhone sync is now supported.Disclaimer: I haven't tried this sync, but I'd sure love to migrate all (Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Memos) from Treo to iPhone.Has anyone gotten such a chore to work?--MatthewTreo 700pPalm Desktop 4.2

July 18, 2008 4:02 PM    Louise said...

I have the paid version of Yahoo even though I only do email online. I have used Intellisync to sync my Palm hand held to Yahoo with great success for years. It no longer works and I cannot get the Autosync to do a true SYNC -- especially the calendar. (If it syncs to the desktop, then the desktop does not want to sync to the hand held!!!) This makes the Yahoo apps useless to me. Does anyone have a suggestion for on line apps that will sync to Palm hand held - - especially a calendar that sends email reminders???

August 10, 2008 6:56 AM  

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Review, Intellisync for Yahoo

by John Hood, Mar 2006

 

Ok, so you have a Palm PDA, or Outlook, or Eudora mail, or what have you, AND you have a Yahoo account. How do you keep calendar, contacts, notes and tasks, synchronized between the two, without retyping everything from one to the other? Relax. Yahoo's got your back.

 

What it does: Intellisync for Yahoo uses the powerful Intellisync software, long a standard with PDA users, to synchronise Yahoo calendar contacts, notes and tasks with any other application supported by intellisync (Palm Desktop, Outlook, Outlook Express and Eudora are a few. Intellisync for Yahoo is available to all Yahoo mail account users, by going to the Calendar tab, and looking for the "sync" link in the upper right corner. It'll take you to the installer.

 

Setup is easy. After installation, you input your Yahoo username and password. From there go to "Setup," and select "Choose" and you can pick the program you want to sync with your Yahoo. Synchronisation across the two is a single-click affair. It's like backing up your local information to the web, or having your Yahoo info available locally.

 

Traps and tricks: Occasionally, Intellisync will duplicate a single data entry on the sync'ed program. Suddenly your PDA or Outlook or what-have-you will sport two copies of a contact, appointment, note or task. Deleting just the duplicate entry doesn't work. Instead delete both entries and resync with yahoo. End of problem.

 

Intellisync doesn't support multi-day appointments. I've learned to make single day appointments for each day.

 

These are small foibles in an otherwise terrific program! I love the convenience of having my PDA data available online, and online Yahoo data in my pocket. I can also edit my Palm data from my computer keyboard. Separate copies of Intellisync for Yahoo, at work and at home, mean that the same data is available no matter where I am.

 

If you need help, Yahoo has a great tutorial called "Working With Intellisync for Yahoo!"

 

 

John H.

 

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