Bento Databases for Students!

The Bento 3 Student Survival Kit release was announced late last month. For students that is really awesome news. Released by FileMaker the kit is designed to track classes, projects, notes and more! Specifically it has five templates which help to organize and collect lecture notes, manage group assignments and tasks; it has an event planner/organizer for school or social engagements, the course tracker for classes, grades, pre-requisites and credits, as well as a job search template to follow job applications, interviews and contact information. Video and audio options for database entries make it easy to post and keep track of grades, credits and other stuff. There are also heaps more downloadable templates for all the other important aspects of life. Plus it syncs to your home computer and mobile hardware.

The Bento package is available for download to Apple products including the Mac, iPhone, iPod and of course the iPad and also Windows. The trial version is free from, http://www.bentotrial.com/ssk/.  The student survival kit is a great addition to the original Bento package which offers users a whole raft of other organizational services from iTunes to spreadsheets. All with prewritten templates to make ease of use as smooth as peanut butter but with some interesting crunchy bits too.

If you’re like me you rely on technology hugely, to keep track of what has to be done day to day right down to knowing what is due and when. And if you’re even more like me you have more than one device tracking everything and that’s where the ability to sync all devices is critical. The bad news is for Windows users this won’t be so easy. Mac users though have it made with this software. It’ll sync between your Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod! You can also share and sync with up to five other Bento users which is an amazing tool for group projects or assignments.