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from: FileMaker
List Price: $49.00Amazon.com's Price: $44.49 You Save: $4.51 ( 9%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Filemaker Inc.
EAN: 0044866034724
Format: CD-ROM
Label: FileMaker
Manufacturer: FileMaker
Model: TP934LLA
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: FileMaker
Release Date: January 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 340
Studio: FileMaker
Features:- Organize all the details of your busy life in one place
- Manage contacts, coordinate events, track projects, and prioritize tasks faster and easier than ever before
- Links with Mac OS X Address Book and iCal; Imports spreadsheets and other CSV files
- Includes ready-to-use templates, and elegant themes designed by Mac artists
- Just point and click or drag and drop to change the look of any form and see information in a way that makes sense to you
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Product Description:
Bento organizes all your important information in one place, so you can manage your contacts, coordinate events, track projects, prioritize tasks, and more.
Amazon.com:
Meet Bento, the new personal database from FileMaker that's as easy to use as your Mac. It organizes all the details of your busy life in one place. So you can manage contacts, coordinate events, track projects, and prioritize tasks faster and easier than ever before.
Manage contacts, coordinate events, track projects, and prioritize tasks faster and easier than ever before. |
Substance, meet style
It's never been easier to get organized thanks to built-in links with Mac OS X Address Book and iCal, ready-to-use templates, and elegant themes designed by Mac artists.
Built-in Links to Address Book and iCal
There's no need to re-enter all your contact and calendar info to get started with Bento. It has built-in links to your Mac OS X Address Book and iCal applications.
In seconds, you'll be viewing all your contacts, tasks, and events in beautiful Bento templates that make searching, sorting and organizing simpler and faster than ever before.
Great-looking templates
Bento also comes with more than 20 ready-to-use templates. So you can easily get started organizing just about any kind of information you have--for work, home, school or community projects.
Add beautiful themes with a click
To make your templates look even better, you can add an elegant theme, designed by Mac artists, that suits your style and personality. Themes include coordinated colors, layouts, fonts and text styles that bring style to your templates with a single click.
Help stop spreadsheet abuse
Let your spreadsheet crunch the numbers, and let Bento do the rest.
If you're managing lists in Microsoft Excel or just about any other program that exports to Comma Separated Values, you can import them with a simple drag and drop. 
Bento makes it possible to connect related information together so you can see a more a complete picture of everything you're tracking--all in one place. |
Bring it together
From contacts and calendars, to projects and events, you can organize just about every type of information you have--and access it instantly--all from one place.
Get the big picture
Bento makes it possible to connect related information together so you can see a more a complete picture of everything you're tracking--all in one place.
Bringing things together to get you organized--that's what Bento is all about.
Find what you need fast
Ever search for music with iTunes? It couldn't get much easier. And Bento carries on the Mac tradition by using familiar iTunes-like searching. You can find the things you store in Bento instantly. From phone numbers for friends in Fiji to deadlines due in December. 
Display your information in a familiar spreadsheet-like Table View to see multiple records at once. | 
Switch to Form View to see one record at a time. |
What's your type?
Because Bento is a flexible database, you're not forced into tracking pre-set types of information. You can store virtually any type of information you want in Bento choosing from a variety of field type options.
For instance, let's say you're putting on your company party and all your contacts are already stored in the Mac Address Book. You could simply add a 'Checkbox' to your Address Book form to track who's coming, and add a 'Choice' pop-up list to store each person's food preference. It's that easy!
See things your way
Just point and click or drag and drop to change the look of any form and see information in a way that makes sense to you.
Set the table, and sort it, too
Display your information in a familiar spreadsheet-like Table View to see multiple records at once. Sort columns with a single click, and get quick stats through the handy Summary Row.
If you use the Mac OS X Address Book, you'll appreciate this new view, because you'll be able to see many contacts all at once.
Forms flow freely
Switch to Form View to see one record at a time. This view is especially useful when entering large amounts of text, like notes from lectures, meetings and conversations.
You can also view different slices of your information by adding as many new forms as you'd like. And each new form can show a different grouping of information, so you can see your data from every angle.
Customize with a click
Resize, rearrange, and regroup to your heart's content. Just point and click to change themes, columns displayed, label positions, text sizes, shading, alignment, and more.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Bento
This is a great software application. I have cataloged my CD library and made up spread sheets for my finances. The spread sheets are much easier to create than than Excel spread sheets. This comes from somebody who is not good at code writing.
BEWARE !! this application has one serious drawback. It is a Filemaker product. I have used Filemaker Pro a great deal in the past for work and their tech support is horrible, the worst !
Recently I called up Filemaker tech support ... Read More
Rating: - For $49, great database...for $99 it could be AWESOME
I sell raw materials to industry for a living, and my (otherwise great) company doesn't provide any kind of contact management/sales tools for the sales force. One the hand hand, it's very frustrating not to have a "go-to" tool for my everyday tasks. On the other hand, they don't give me much opposition to devising my own tools that work the way I want them to.
I have done the "use Excel as a database" thing for a year now, as many professionals do, and it's awkward at best. Excel was never ... Read More
Rating:  - Super easy
Bento
I wanted a database that was easy to use and Bento fit the bill. I have used Access (UGH) and Filemaker in the past and at times found them daunting. Bento was so simple to set up a club database it made me want to do more. It is surprisingly comprehensive for such an inexpensive database. Now it won't do it all but it does enough for most users.
Rating:  - At least it is a start
I really like the concept of Bento, a simpler personal database. However, the execution is lacking. Most frustrating is that it does not integrate completely with Address Book. For example, the Spouse field in AB does not get populated in Bento. Forget integrating custom fields. Another annoyance is the Themes are ugly and not customizable.
This product is ok (not great) if you want to store recipes or a To Do list. Otherwise, find another solution. Maybe Bento 2.0 will be better.
Rating:  - Limited
DO NOT plan on entering a database of substance. Bento has its limits and when you hit it, in my situation is was 1280 entries you are dead in the water. Bento is for light and very basic use. It is not for those that need more than entering a few household items. I am very disappointed with the software and their support.
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