Using Bento to publish case summaries
I've been keeping track of newly published criminal law opinions for many years. When Bento came out I recognized that this was a wonderful vehicle for organizing and tracking my case summaries.
But I also wanted to publish my summaries via email to a list of recipients and to my blog. Here's how I set up the process:
I enter the summaries into a library I created in Bento.
Then I use the Export function to create a Numbers spreadsheet document.
I created a template in Pages to accept the fields from the Numbers document, and then ran Mail Merge from Pages.
Finally, I removed the page breaks from the finished document, then copy/pasted the whole thing into an email which is sent both to my recipients and to my blog (hosted at Posterous). Pretty easy.
You can see the blog entry at www.gracesuarez.com. Enjoy.
