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Parenting & Kids
- What’s your favorite color? Letting kids pick calendar colors is a fun way to get them involved in the family schedule.
- Routine checkups are easy to forget. Record your kids’ doctor and dentist appointments in the calendar (and don’t forget to floss!).
- Cozi messages are a great way for kids to keep in touch with you. Let them know they can check in anytime or even send a quick hi when they’re home from school.
- When it comes to lunch, kids can be picky. Have them create lists of their favorite items to make sure they never suffer through the yucky stuff again.
- Are you going to the big game? What big game, you say? Keeping track of sports and other extracurricular activities is easy with the calendar.
- Use a separate Cozi account to organize your weekly carpool schedule. Just set up your carpool group as a “family.” Each commuter gets a tab, and the “All” tab tells you who is doing the driving. (We’ll let you figure out who gets to take control of the radio.)
- Get involved in your kids’ homework by creating a check list for them. They’ll thank you… eventually.
- Let your kids type their own appointments in your Cozi calendar for a cool way to stay on top of their schedules.
- Be safe—create a list just for emergency contact numbers.
- Add a tab for your child care provider to stay on top of their vacation days.
- Do you have joint custody of one or more children? Use Cozi to coordinate your households’ schedules and take the guesswork out of being great parents.
- Get kids excited about back-to-school by helping them create a list of all the cool clothes and school supplies they’ll need.
- Kids always know how many days remain until a major holiday. Let them enter their days off from school on the family calendar.
- Kids keep a running list of things they want for their birthdays in their heads. Create a list of who wants what, and don’t forget the gift wrap.
- Homework is a lot easier to keep track of when it’s scheduled as an appointment on your Cozi calendar.
- Kids’ parties have a way of sneaking up. Schedule appointments to buy gifts well ahead of time.
- Who’s going to summer camp? Schedule the dates the kids will be making ’smores and telling ghost stories around the campfire.
- Show your kids how to make a rockin’ collage by pointing it to a folder with photos of their favorite bands and movie stars.
- Chores getting you down? Make them more manageable by tracking them in Cozi lists.
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Home sweet home
- Entering appointments is easy—just use everyday language like “French lessons every Thursday at 7pm.”
- Lists rule. Use your list to keep track of your “to do” items as well as your shopping items.
- Do you use Outlook? Syncing it with Cozi is a super-efficient way to stay organized—no more double entries and no more managing multiple calendars!
- Did you know that you can set Outlook 2003 to show your family appointments in a unique color? Outlook 2007 does this automatically.
- Did you know that you can sync multiple Outlook calendars with Cozi?
- When was the last time you had the gutters cleaned? What about shampooing the carpets? To keep track of these and other glamorous chores, just add them as appointments on your calendar.
- Don’t rely on that little sticker on your windshield—let your Cozi calendar remember when to schedule your car’s next oil change.
- Your plants could use some TLC. Schedule a recurring appointment to water them and give them the care they need.
- Be sure to enter all your recurring appointments—it’s one less thing you’ll have to remember.
- In your Cozi account settings, add a household member named “Bills” to keep track of what is due and when.
- Caring for older members of the family? Create a separate Cozi account to help keep their affairs in order.
- Do you have an iGoogle homepage? You can sync Cozi with Outlook, and then add a calendar widget to your iGoogle homepage.
- Attention! Bolded items in the calendar are not recurring.
- Keep your family in the loop by emailing them appointments.
- If you take a phone message for someone in the household, pass it on right away by sending a text or email message directly from Cozi.
- There’s no need to open a separate email program to manage a quick note or message—you can send messages directly from your Cozi family home page.
- What needs to get done around the house? Send yourself a message after a family meeting to stay on top of your to-do list.
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Grocery lists & meal planning
- Families revolve around the kitchen, whether it’s for meals, snacks, or quick talks. Make Cozi part of your family’s hub and keep it accessible on a kitchen laptop. Adding to your shopping lists and family calendar is a snap with Cozi close at hand.
- Meal planning has never been easier! Enter what you’re making for dinner as an appointment. Don’t know what to make? Just refer to previous weeks for ideas.
- Keep track of the brands you rely on in your grocery lists. This way, when someone else is doing the shopping, they’ll buy exactly what you need.
- When you’re done with an item on your list, just use the check mark button to cross it off. Need to reinstate the item? Just check it again.
- Create a shopping list of the ingredients in your favorite recipes for easy remote access.
- Every family has a repertoire of recipes. What are yours? To ease meal planning woes keep a running list of all the yummy meals your family loves to eat.
- Someone on their way home from work? Send a text message of the grocery list to your family members’ mobile phone.
- Make trips to the grocery store more efficient by listing the items you need under the section of the store where they’re located (i.e., Produce, Meat, Bulk Foods).
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On the go
- When you’re away from your computer, try this cool way to access your lists: Just call 1-888-808-COZI and follow the prompts. Cozi will read your lists to you or send them to your phone.
- Adding mobile numbers to your Cozi account is easy. Just click settings, and then click general information about your household. Once you’ve clicked done, we’ll send a text message to each mobile phone you’ve entered. Reply with the text message “ok” to finalize (standard carrier rates apply).
- If you keep multiple lists in Cozi, title your lists with key words that you’re likely to remember. This allows you to easily access the right list from the road via Cozi’s toll-free number.
- Don’t forget to bring home dinner! Cozi messages are a great way to remind your spouse or a family member of what you need to pick up from the store.
- Does your smart phone sync with Outlook? Syncing your Cozi calendar to your phone or PDA is a great way to manage your schedule when you’re on the go.
- Did you know that you can text message your lists to your mobile phone? Now it’s a cinch to keep track of your to-dos when you’re on the move.
- Not sure what’s happening today? Retrieve your day’s schedule on your mobile phone as voice or text.
- Heading out the door? Print a copy of your lists for easy reference.
- Stay on top of your kids schedules while you’re at work. Sign in to your Cozi account from any computer with Internet access.
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Family fun
- Personalize your family home page photo with a favorite snapshot that melts your heart.
- Get your family’s attention by posting printed calendars in places they’re bound to see them—the front door, the garage door, the hallway, their foreheads.
- Never forget another birthday or anniversary again. Just add them to the calendar as recurring appointments.
- It’s show time! Schedule calendar appointments for movie night or family TV time.
- Feeling blue? Change the calendar colors for individuals or the group to reflect the season.
- To customize Cozi collages, just add the pictures you want displayed to a folder on your computer, and let Cozi know where that folder is in your settings. Pictures that are in a folder together will appear in a collage together.
- Creating a Cozi account is a great way to manage a small team—softball, anyone?
- Who’s on holiday break and when? Adding holidays to the calendar makes for a more stress-free season.
- Family meetings are a great opportunity to sit down and review the calendar for upcoming weeks.
- When it’s time to shop for clothes for family members, a list of their clothes and shoe sizes makes finding the right fashions even easier.
- Ready to rock? Schedule calendar appointments for upcoming concerts or other events you don’t want to miss.
- Keep key contacts and directions in Cozi lists. Access them from wherever you are.
- What a year! Use your Cozi calendar to review the big events of the past 365 days.
- When someone special is coming from out of town, take note of the visit on your calendar.
- Cozi Collage makes a beautiful art gallery. Just scan your kids’ masterpieces and save them to your collage folder.
- If the computers in your home are on a network, enjoy your collages from every computer in the house.
- Keep your collage fresh by creating picture folders devoted to specific themes, like seasons, vacations, pets, friends—the options are limitless!
- Did you know you can change the setting and speed of your collage screen saver? Go to settings and then screen saver options.
- Use the Cozi Collage to display images of what’s on your wish list. Hint, hint.
- Before heading out of town on vacation, create a check list of everything you need to bring. And don’t forget the sun screen.
- Let’s party! Create one list for guests and another for what you need to buy to celebrate.
- What’s cookin’? When planning a dinner party, keeping a menu list is a great way to prepare.
- Who sent you a holiday card this year? Keep track of them with a list, and refer to it next year when you send out your own family’s cards.
- Say cheese! Get kids involved by having them pick a family photo of the week.
- Who’s on your gift list? Keeping an ongoing list of who you need to buy for takes the stress out of holiday planning.
- Subscribe to the Cozi blog for more tips.
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Pets
- Who else do you want to create a schedule for? Perhaps the family dog has an active social life. Create a tab for them in the family calendar.
- Create a shopping list for your pet so everyone in the family knows what brand of dog food, cat treats, and fish food is favored. Squeaky toys, anyone?
- Ensure that your pets’ vet visits are up to date by adding their appointments to the calendar. (They are members of the family, after all!)
- Create a list to store your pet’s date of birth, shot records, or whatever you might need to access quickly from wherever you are.
- Post a picture of your critter on your family home page.
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