Tuesday, January 11, 2011

How My Phone Is Getting Me Organized

So I'm still working my New Years Resolution to be more organized & since I recently got a new phone, a Sprint Evo 4g, I decided to search the ap store & see what kind of aps I could find that would help. After doing lots of reading about aps, some downloading, & some deleting I found a couple aps that are already making my life, no, not just my life, my whole family's life, much easier. Thought I would share these aps, which are websites with free companion aps actually....

www.cozi.com

This is an online family organizer. Can you say BRILLIANT!!! Are your like me & can't feel like a whole person without your hardcopy family organizer? Are you like me & have more than one child & a husband to keep track of? In my hard copy organizer I purposely research & buy one that will help me keep organized not only as a whole family but also as individuals. Well, with cozi.com it does all that for me!

Cozi, is an online calendar, really organizer is a better word for it, with a free ap available for Android or iPhone. The best thing is that this program is designed specifically for busy families so it comes with features like color-coding by person, email and/or text reminder or updates, & printable calendars. Cozi emails my kids reminders of events on their schedule & my husband a copy of what's going on for us all. I was able to print off a month-@-a-glance page which even had the cute picture I uploaded of my kids on it. There's a shopping list section so whenever I realize we have run out of something, & need to pick something up..I just open the ap on my phone & add it real quick. Even better, last night Jerrid called me & asked what we needed, rather than having to go over the list, I just got on my phone & told Cozi to email it to him. Since he has email on his phone, he was all set! There is also a to do list section. As with the shopping list, it has come in handy to be able to make notes to my to do list from my phone at any time. I downloaded the free screen-saver which plays a slide show of family pics with a reminder of what's on the calendar for that day in the corner. Since this is saved on a website & my phone I don't have to spend the time plugging in my phone to the computer to sync. If my phone or computer crashes, I don't lose everything bc its saved on a website which is available on any computer, anywhere.

I LOVE Cozi, it is quickly making my family's life run more smoothly. I definitely recommend it!!!
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1 comment:

  1. Hi Rachel,

    Thanks for this lovely write-up about Cozi! We are delighted it is working for your family and that the phone apps are helping to keep you organized. (And that screen saver is super-fun, right?!)
    Also, if you have any questions, just pop by our Facebook page and we'll try to help you out right away. http://www.facebook.com/CoziFamily. Best wishes,
    Carol at Cozi

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