This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

Find everything fast...from iCal, Address Book, Apple Mail, even MobileMe and iPhone

     •    Use Bento’s stunning templates and themes

     •    Master Smart Collections and other advanced features

     •    Keep a nature/garden log

     •    Manage projects

     •    Create storyboards

     •    And more...much more

Bento is the best way to organize your life.

Your contacts, events, tasks, projects, stuff, everything.

This book makes Bento even better. (And even easier.)

Learn how to use everything that’s built into Bento...and extend Bento
to do even more.

Quick. Elegant. Smart. And 100% Mac.

That’s Bento. And that’s the Bento Book.

Bento 2 adds new features.

Find out what’s new and how to use hot relations, export
and import Bento libraries, and use new view features.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 7 Ratings

Wonderful Book for an Excellent Mac Product - 2008-12-12
Reviewer Rating:
Bento is such a wonderful database program for the Apple Mac.

This book will assist you in utilizing it even better.

NOTE TO AUTHOR: The screenshots are a bit small to see sometimes. Please make them larger, in color, and more readable in the next edition.

Recommended to Bento users.

Difficult to read. - 2009-06-17
Reviewer Rating:
The font on this book is much too small to read and the book tries to cover both Bento 1.0 and 2,0 to cover users of both versions but makes it very diifficult to understand at times. Recommend major rewrite.

good user's guide for Bento - 2009-05-10
Reviewer Rating:
I purchased this book for the very positive reviews it has regarding its usefulness in learning to use Bento, especially because some reviews extolled the book's coverage regarding many-to-many (M-T-M) relationships in Bento (Chapter 11). While I wasn't disappointed with its explanation and samples, it does not directly address the many-to-many relationships capability of the program except in the form of an example that happens to employ the feature. While all relational databases are capable of creating complex M-T-M relationships, I have yet to find one that simplifies creating M-T-M relationships as Bento does. (It would be nice if M-T-M relationships could be created as easily with FileMaker.) The problem is that the book does not explain this process very well; it just provides an example that happens to create an M-T-M relationship. I think a future edition of this book could treat M-T-M more directly and could better explain this powerful capability of Bento.

A great help not needed - 2009-06-23
Reviewer Rating:
Although you do not need this book to operate Bento because the program is highly intuitive, it is great to have it in order to improve your performance and in discovering hidden features that can help you a lot.

Bento 3 - 2009-10-13
Reviewer Rating:
Excellent database program, especially the way it integrates with the Macintosh operating system and core programs.

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