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22 Chapter 1 Overview of Bento
Source List
The Source list displays the libraries and collections that are in Bento.
1 A library categorizes data by content. Bento provides several libraries by default.
The Address Book, iCal Tasks, and iCal Events libraries display data from the Address
Book and iCal applications. The Projects library, which stores data about projects, is
an example library with sample data. You can create libraries to store other
categories of data.
To add a library to the Source list, click the New Library button.
See Chapter 2, “Using Libraries,” on page 31.
1 A collection is set of records from a library. A collection is similar to an Address Book
group or to a playlist in iTunes. A collection contains records from its parent library.
A record from the library can be in more than one collection. For example, one
person might be both a friend and a co-worker. If you had one collection named
“Friends” and another named “Co-workers” you could add this person’s contact
record to both collections in the Address Book library.
To add a collection to the Source list, click the New Collection button.
See Chapter 4, “Using Collections,” on page 43.
Address Book
Library
iCal Events
Library
Collections of
Address Book
records
Collection of
iCal Events
Collection of
records from
Projects
New Library
New Collection
Projects Library
iCal Tasks Library