i think this would be a very useful feature also. :)

On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 20:21, Dan Berger wrote:
> So this is where Evo gets to be better than it's Windows counterparts.  
> 
> I think the ability to map fields between Evo and the Pilot would be
> very useful, and I'd love to see it as a post-1.0 feature.  'Course, if
> I'm alone, I'll either shut up or write it myself :)
> 
> Anyone else?
> 
> On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 14:29, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 16:35, Dan Berger wrote:
> > > Seems to me that the "right" thing to do is build an interface that
> > > allows the user to specify how to map fields from Evo<->Pilot.
> > 
> > So, I checked around, basically windows apps don't sync this
> > information, they just skip over and don't overwrite it when syncing
> > (exception being the palm desktop software which has exactly the right
> > fields).  We were already doing this for desktop fields but we were
> > overwriting the category and custom fields (addressbook) on the pilot.
> > I fixed this.  The only way that info like the birthday will go missing
> > completely is if you delete it on the desktop and some action on the
> > pilot causes it to be put back, but then you have to ask yourself - how
> > important is deleted info? :-)
> > 
> > 
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