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| Bento | 
 enlarge | From: FileMaker
Category: Software
List Price: $49.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 125
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Macintosh
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.1
MPN: TP934LL/A
Model: TP934LLA
UPC: 044866034724
EAN: 0044866034724
ASIN: B00123WD40
Release Date: January 8, 2008
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 Bento, very useful and easy to use June 20, 2008
Bento is of course, Filemaker light. It automatically picks up and creates a bidirectional data base with the information in your Mac address book program. Bidirectional because changes in either one automatically updates the other. I imported information from an Excel sheet with little effort. The excel sheet had to be saved as .csv. That's what I've done with it. The program places the information in a default template and has a variety of other templates that gives the information a professional look. It also allows table view with a single button click.
 Nice product but still a limited 1.0 May 29, 2008
I like this product overall. It is easy to use and can do some nice things for simple form based databases. It has nice integration features if you use the ilife tools like contacts lists, etc, but since I honestly don't use the calendar or address book so that doesn't help me.
I used it for some simple tracking DBs, etc. It doesn't to a ton more then a spreadsheet does for that, honestly, except give a nice form interface.
I still like it overall but it needs some beefing up to be a great product.
Bento - a great solution May 27, 2008
Bento ended up being the perfect datbase solution for my work situation. I'd been looking for one since the discontuance of Apple Works and everything was either too complicated or too expensive or both.
Bento is inexpensive, complete at least for my level of need and fairly inuitive. Once I got the hang of it importing from a spreadsheet database in CSV format was simple an deasy. Definitely woth a shot. Especialy as you can down load a 30 day trial version.
Great Task Master May 18, 2008
I have a iMac computer and inexpensive organizational programming is hard to find, especially ones that work so good. I tried a demo version of Bento as I really wasn't sure if this sort of organizer of things was going to work for me. I was very surprised at the amount customization that it has and continues to have. I do several events for an aviation club in our area. Some of the events involve lots of individual tasks and many contacts. Other events are just big shows and only a few things need organizing. Bento has help tremendously!
Currently I am organizing a education grant program and find Bento helpful and mindful of tasks now done and what to move onto.
Give the demo a try. I was surprised, maybe you will find it as helpful of a tool as I did!
 Excellent Basic DB May 15, 2008
As a user of FileMaker Pro, I acquired Bento to create quick DB for home use. There is practically no learning curve for Bento. I used the included Home Inventory DB immediately, modifying it slightly for my purposes. I created a recipe DB in about 10 minutes. It includes photos and printable PDFs embedded in each record. I created an extensive Finance DB (Quicken replacement) in FileMaker Pro but export results by category by month to Bento for quick reference.
Two enhancements I would like to see, 1) i would like to share or send a Bento Library to another computer, 2) I would like a true, automated relationship with another Bento Llibrary or FileMaker DB.
Bento is an exceptional value for the quick creation of simple DBs (Libraries).
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