Yes, my wife and friends do it all the time.
You have to try to get the same contacts. Any time you are offered more than one compare notes to see which might be one the other already has or is being offered. It helps a little if both are the same origin. If you find you don't have any common contacts there are some you can just walk up to - Hollows, Striga, Faultline, Midnighters (both) and Vanguard are examples of those. Detectives tend to offer 2 or 3 at a time after a Safeguard and are good for getting re-synced.
Once you both have the same contact you need to know what mission is the first for their arc or are badge missions. I use the wiki for this. Then cycle through the random missions using the new Abandon option until you both have the same missions (preferrably the arc/badge but we go for any that are the same).
Then simply make sure you have Co-Operative Missions turned on (I set mine for Auto so I don't get the annoying message after every mission). You can find it in your main options page toward the top.
If you do this you'll always be about the same level (even if you aren't level-pacted), with the same number of merits. Good luck. 
How do you know what quests you have done?
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Normal contacts hand out their missions in random order if/until you get to a Story Arc, then the order (in most cases) is constant.|
Originally Posted by Green Jelly
Anyways, we are in a Leveling Pact, and are on the Good Side. The NPC's tend to give out random quests and two people talking to the same NPC will get different quests. This was less of an issue when we where rogue, but we really did not understand the implications of joining Super Groups and such.
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As Golden said, in zones like The Hollows, Croatoa, RWZ, it's easier to stay synced because arcs are pretty much all the contacts hand out.
When it comes to normal contacts though, a good way to manage it is to start at the same contact, and alternate missions until one of you sees the story arc icon next to their contact. From there, exclusively do the other partner's missions until they too get the same mission beginning the story arc.
From that point until the end of the arc it should be fairly easy to run cooperatively and remained synced.
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Is their a list of these contacts somewhere. There are contacts on the map, but from my limited experience they usually wont talk to you|
Originally Posted by Golden_Avariel
If you find you don't have any common contacts there are some you can just walk up to - Hollows, Striga, Faultline, Midnighters (both) and Vanguard are examples of those. Detectives tend to offer 2 or 3 at a time after a Safeguard and are good for getting re-synced.
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Paragonwiki.com is a great friend for tons of info like that.
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Unfortunately their is not "None" Link under the appropriate contacts "Contact Introduced By" that would direct you to all of the contacts that dont require a referral.
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You have to get an introduction to most contacts (other than the zones I listed) before they will talk to you. You have at least the one contact you got when you created the character plus you get some automatic ones at 10th and 20th. You can find them under the Contacts tab (active or inactive).|
Originally Posted by Green Jelly
Is their a list of these contacts somewhere. There are contacts on the map, but from my limited experience they usually wont talk to you
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If you don't have any contacts that are current go back to some of your old contacts and talk to them. They will sometimes give you an introduction to a new, level-appropriate contact.
If all else fails, go to a zone where you have the same detective and the radio is active then alternate radio missions until you get a safeguard mission. After running that (success or fail) the detective will give you a choice of 2 or 3 contacts. There is almost always some overlap, choose one of those.
If you can't co-op the Safeguard (you have different detectives) then you'll need to run the safeguard twice. You should both talk to the respective detective, choose one mission and run it then as soon as you jump out, select the other mission and jump back in. That way you can still both talk to the detectives at the same time and still compare lists.
You'll know which stories you've already run by looking under Badges / Souvenirs - each souvenir is a story arc. You'll know which ones you are currently running because they'll have a little book icon next to the contact's picture.
You can find a list of Hero Story Arcs here. Look under the heading for your level range.
For completeness, you can do the same thing on the villain side except old contacts won't generally give you new contacts. You have to run Mayhem missions for brokers to get new ones. Be SURE you are in a zone appropriate for your level - just because you can run newspapers in a zone doesn't mean you'll get a contact at the end if you've already been there a while. Try to run them on a level divisible by 5 + 1 (6, 11, 16, 21, 26, etc). You can find a list of Villain Story Arcs here.
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Originally Posted by Green Jelly
Unfortunately their is not "None" Link under the appropriate contacts "Contact Introduced By" that would direct you to all of the contacts that dont require a referral.
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Officer David Wincott (Hollows) - leads to 3 others
Level 10-50:
Montague Castanella (University in Steel Canyon) - introduces a normal contact plus opens up the Midnighter Club/Cimmerora.
Level 15-19:
Jim Temblor (Faultline) - leads to 3 others plus introduces a normal contact.
Level 20-24:
Doc Delilah (Faultine) - technically needs an intro but Jim Temblor introduces anyone to her at 21st level regardless if you've done his arc or not. Doc also rewards the Ouroboros portal for her arc. Introduces Agent G.
Mercedes Sheldon (Midnighters Club - Steel Canyon lobby) - must have run Montague's arc to get into the club first.
Stephanie Peebles (Striga) - leads to 3 others which eventually opens up the Hess TF.
Level 20-29:
Field Agent Keith Nance (Talos Island) - leads to 1 other
Level 25-29:
Gordon Bower (Croatoa) - leads to 3 others which eventually opens up the Croatoa TF.
Level 25-50:
The Pilgrim (Ouroboros) - must have the Ouroboros temp power either through running Doc's or Agent G's arc or getting someone to lay a portal down for you so you can go to the top of the building to get the badge. Once done you can run any of the Ouroboros task forces.
Level 30-34:
Kelly Nemmers (Croatoa) - technically needs an intro but Gordon Bower will introduce her to anyone that approaches him after level 30. Leads to one other in Gordon Bower's chain.
Level 30-50:
Percy Winkley (Croatoa)
Level 35-50:
Senator Decimus Aquila (Cimmerora) - must have run Montague Castanella's arc to get to Cimmerora.
Marcus Valerius (Cimmerora) - must have run Montague Castanella's arc to get into Cimmerora. May or may not have to get an introduction from the Senator - not sure. No arc, more like a radio.
Levantera (Vanguard) - leads to 3 others (4 if you count the "radio" contact Borea).
Level 40-44:
Daedalus (Cimmerora) - must have run Montague Castanella's arc to get into Cimmerora.
A LOT of those lead to more contacts.
If you want the same random missions then use the abandon mission option until you get the same.
Me and My Wife like to play together. Where rather fanatical about it, and some find our dedication to be annoying/limiting. Especially when they want a healer (Me) to join, but find that I am not willing to do any teams without My Wife.
Anyways, we are in a Leveling Pact, and are on the Good Side. The NPC's tend to give out random quests and two people talking to the same NPC will get different quests. This was less of an issue when we where rogue, but we really did not understand the implications of joining Super Groups and such.
Is their a way to share story arcs, quests and/or contacts?