Introducing ASynK - a flexible contacts synchronization framework for BBDB, Outlook and Google Contacts

[Karra <karra.etc@gmail.com>]

I very badly missed a good free and flexible two-way sync software for my Android phone. So I wrote ASynK (earlier known as Gout). ASynK - Awesome Sync (by Karra), is a flexible PIM synchronization platform written in Python. 

You can find all about it on the project home page at:
http://karra-asynk.appspot.com/

High level features include:

  - ASynK allows two-way sync of Contacts across any two support sources -
    Google Contacts, Microsoft Outlook, and Emacs BBDB.
  
  - ASynK is the only two-way synchronization option for BBDB known to be in
    existence today. So if you are keen to keep your BBDB content synchronized
    with a mobile device or Outlook, look no further. BBDBV3 is supported out 
    of the box. BBDBv2.x (i.e. file format version 6) is also supported but it needs
    a small patch to BBDB. More at:  
    http://karra-asynk.appspot.com/doc/asynk/asynk_2.html#SEC8
  
  - ASynK works on Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Outlook synchronization
    only works on Windows.
  
  - Synchronization is granular to the level of 'Folders', i.e. you can
    synchronize one folder of Google Contacts with a Outlook folder (on
    Windows at work, say), and another Google folder in the same account with
    BBDB (On your Mac, say)
  
  - The infrastructure is there to add more database and item types
    (i.e. tasks, notes, etc.), but currently only Contacts synchronization for
    Google Contacts, BBDB and Outlook supported
    
  - It is free software, and released under the GNU AGPL (Affero GPL) version
    3

Cheers and happy synching!
-Karra