Sharing Chaos Data with an Android device
Chaos Intellect and Time & Chaos
offer excellent contact management with tasks and appointments, on Windows PCs.
You can easily expand your use of your Chaos Data files, however, to include using
your data with popular Android devices running this popular OS from Google, including phones from Samsung and others.
Add a ChaosHost.com account as a bridge for your data!
1) Install Chaos apps for Android devices
We have released our own native apps written specifically for Android which sync with ChaosHost
to get your data back and forth! These include Chaos Contacts, Chaos Calendar, Chaos Tasks and
Chaos Billing.
Chaos Contacts in particular has an option to share contacts data with system apps, so the names,
numbers and addresses from your Chaos data can be in your phone, contacts and messaging apps on your
Android device. (You don't have to enable this if you want to keep your data completely separate and
private from other things on your phone!)
Take a look at our Android products page for more details.
2) Use the live ChaosHost.com web app from your mobile Web Browser
One other benefit of a ChaosHost
account is that in addition to hosting and synchronizing data, we also have a web
application that allows you to work with your data through a web browser when you
are away from your PC.
Either as a supplement to doing the Over-The-Air Sync or as a separate option, ChaosHost
offers a special mobile version of the Chaos Data Live web application that is designed
for use on mobile device web browsers.
When you login to ChaosHost's mobile edition, you can see your data, make changes
and additions, all at a form factor appropriate for handheld devices. When you get
back to your PC, you can use the Web Synchronization option in our PC software to
make sure your changes made online are transferred back down to your computer.
This web app is especially useful because it allows you to work with your Memos
or Projects data, which otherwise would not be available to your device, since most Androids
devices do not have built-in applications or Exchange synchronizing that supports
our Tasks or Projects data.
The special mobile website for ChaosHost.com formatted for the smaller screen
can be found at https://www.chaoshost.com/m/.
How do I get a ChaosHost account and how does it work with my current software?
If you don't already use ChaosHost.com,
our sales department can set you up with a free, fully
functional, 30 day trial so you can see the sync process first hand before purchasing
a ChaosHost subscription. You won't need to hold it with a credit card either! If
it doesn't work for you they way you want, it will expire on its own without any
need to cancel. You'll only need to do something if you want to keep it!
Once you have an account, your data can
be synchronized with Chaos products using an option you will find is already built-in
to your desktop softare, on the File Menu, under Web Synchronization. Fill out your
user name and password and it is ready to go. You can sync your pc on demand or
sync automatically when you start and/or exit our program, your choice.
Keep in mind that unlike many "cloud" solutions, you are NOT giving up
your PC. Intellect and Time & Chaos will continue to keep a local copy of your
data with all the features you have gotten used to using. But, now you'll be able
to work in more places by using ChaosHost to keep your phone in sync or to use the
web site version from any borrowed computer!
Once your ChaosHost account is up and running, you can find the full step-by-step
details on adding the new ChaosHost account to your Android device in the ChaosHost help files.
