Online Family Calendar

[super_e]

Bonjour!

I've seen a lot of those Family Calendar's in stores this time of year, and while a paper version works great for most people, some of you might be more high-tech and would prefer something you can access on your computer or fancy phone.

I signed up for www.cozi.com a while back and I find it works very well.
It's an online family calendar that can be accessed through your computer or through a smartphone app.
When you sign up you create your family, and each family member is assigned a colour.
Then you enter the appointments for each family member (ex: little Jimmy has soccer practice every Thursday at 2pm). You can get reminders sent by text or email to you. You can print your weekly family calendar and carry it around with you, you can access your calendar by smart phone. I believe you can also sync with Outlook or other calendars.

Cozi is free, or you can pay extra to not have the advertisements appear.

You can also make shopping lists that everyone can access. And items can be crossed off by whomever actually gets the item on the list.

It's actually a cool little tool. If I had kids I'd probably use it more.
They even have a meal planning section (you enter the recipes you plan on making each day, and you can add ingredients to your shopping list), but that section is only available on the online version, not the smartphone version yet,

Check it out if you feel your family needs something more then a regular paper calendar to track everyone.


Here's a review of Cozi by some blogger I came across: http://www.oddlysaid.com/?p=713
Here's a review of the Cozi app for smartphones: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7...ily-organizer/

[DianneS]

Thanks for posting!