Organize Your Life, Bento For iPhone Available
by Ian
May 6, 2009
Bento hit the App Store today and allows you to create and manage a database on your iPhone.
You might be thinking, "I don't need that."
Well, you're wrong. Everyone has stuff and Bento allows you to keep track of that stuff. In fact, you can manage a lot more than just stuff with a customizable database.
According to the app description, Bento supports "15 different field types so you can store text, numbers, dates, times, durations, pictures, sounds, video clips pop-up choices, check boxes, prices, rates, addresses, phone numbers, ratings, web sites, email addresses, instant messaging accounts, and more."
With that sort of customization you can make to do lists that fit your particular set of needs, or a personalized recipe book of your favorite recipes, or a notebook that includes everything you need it to, or a planner where you keep track of everything related to a project.
The app includes 25 pre-designed templates, including contacts, diet log, digital media, event planning, exercise log, expenses, files, inventory, issue tracking, items sold, membership list, notes, recipes, to do List and time billing.
Bento is a product of FileMaker Inc., makers of the granddaddy of database applications for the Mac, FileMaker Pro. As fellow editorial staff member AJ Graic so politely put it, Bento "is filemaker pro for stupid people." I don't know about you, but that means it's right up my alley.
Bento for iPhone is $4.99 and can sync wirelessly with the $49 desktop version.
I'm going to use Bento to catalogue my DVD and digital video collection. What would you use this app for?
