This year with some kid starting middle school, we have three school for as many kids. We need to set some order in this chaos. My wife and I both have android phones.

I thought i would list the apps i use and why i like them.

I’ll start today with the app we use for planning our family events: Cozi
I was looking for a way to handle everyone’s calendar. I asked at work and did some research on my own and tried a few. We ended up going with Cozi. It works as an app and as a website. One can enter school schedules, doc appointments, swim practices etc. It can be easily set up even if it’s something like every tuesday and wednesday from 4pm to 4:30 pm; each activity can be assigned to a set of people. When i update an appointment, my wife can see it almost instantly.

We can also share shopping lists, so she can add milk and bread when she sees we need some and i can check them off when i stop at the store.

Cozi is free, but they have a yearly subscription ($30) that enables a few bells and whistle. i don’t really need them but i went ahead a bought it anyway, hoping it will help them support the product better/longer.

what i like

• printing weekly calendar
• easy updates from the computer or the phone.

what i don’t like:

• There is currently no way to customize printing and it’s always making just over 1 page! also the week starts on sunday in the US, but not in my family (monday). There is a trick they told me about: select the day you want to start printing, then selecting “print current week”
• i wish we could see the week as busy/free lines similar to outlook.
• i wish it would integrate with outlook so my work calendar could easily be merged. I think they used to have a plug in but it’s not available anymore.