Now that the kids are headed back to school, are you scrambling to get on track with a weekly dinner plan?

Here's some help with that. If you join the Cozi Family Dinner Club before September 1st, not only will you receive two recipes each month that are easy, affordable and great for the whole family, but you'll also be entered to win a copy of Cooking Light's new family cookbook: Cooking Light The Ultimate Kid-Approved Cookbook.

If you don't know about the Cozi Family Dinner Club yet, it's all about sharing dinner ideas and simplifying meal planning to help you get dinner on the table. You'll get two new recipes each month and easy integration with your Cozi shopping list and calendar.

For a taste of the Dinner Club, check out the August selections. There are still a few days in the month to try them out!

August Selections in the Family Dinner Club:

Angela's Zucchini Lasagna

This vegetarian lasagna is fantastic! And it makes great use of the zucchini bounty this time of year. No need to buy noodles, zucchini takes the place of those, and the addition of bread crumbs makes for a very nice texture.

 

 

 

 

Basil Orange Chicken

Basil, orange and lemon make this a light and fresh grilled chicken. Serve in a single dish with couscous and snap peas for a simple summer meal. Makes a nice dish for company, too.

 

 

 

Join the Cozi Family Dinner Club today!

Official Rules for The 2011 Cozi-Cooking Light Cookbook Giveaway

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY: Open to legal residents of the U.S. except Rhode Island, 18 years of age or older at time of entry. Entrants must be physically located in the United States. The contest period begins 12:01 PM ET, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 and ends on 11:59 PM ET, Wednesday, August 31, 2011. A random drawing for the winners will take place on or before September 16, 2011. Two winners of a Cooking Light Cookbook will be chosen at random from all Cozi Family Dinner Club members. Void in R.I. and where prohibited by law. Entrants are responsible for keeping the email address associated with their Cozi Family Dinner Club account valid until after the drawing has been conducted to remain eligible to win a prize.

The new school year is around the corner, and you've probably started to make mental notes about things you want to accomplish before school starts: get the fall calendar set up, get the house organized, hypnotize the kids to make them love homework... 

This year, we're offering a brand new way to help you get set for school. It's the Cozi Back to School Crash Course - 5 days to the most organized school year ever. 

Sign-up and you’ll receive one email tip a day for five days and we guarantee that by the end, you'll have: your fall schedules all in one place, a smoother morning routine, a list of easy meals for even the busiest school days, and more. And since everyone starts school on a different date, you get to choose which week you receive the tips!

Sign up today!

It's Buh buh buh buh BlackBerry time!

And we're not talking just pies either. The first release of the Cozi Family Organizer app for BlackBerry is now available for download from the Blackberry App World.

First, the boring but IMPORTANT stuff: 

1. This initial release only works on OS (Operating System) 5.0 or higher.* You may be able to upgrade your existing phone by contacting your mobile carrier.
2. This initial release works only in the United States and Canada. (International apps may follow but we do not have a date for this.)  
3. There are LOADS of BlackBerry models, and we have tested as many as we can get our hands on, but we surely missed some. So, if you find a bug or a problem, please leave a comment below telling us what version of the OS you have and what model phone you have, so we can try to get one and test it.
   
4. Remember, Cozi is MOST useful if you SHARE it, so if you've included a spouse, partner or family member into your account, please let them know they can now download the Cozi Family Organizer Blackberry App. Just be sure they know to click on SIGN IN to access the account you've already created. (If they click on SIGN UP, they could accidentally create a separate account.)
5. If you have trouble setting this up, don't give up! Go to Cozi support or to the Cozi Facebook page to ask questions or get help.

(Note added 7/16) We have identified a problem that is preventing users of Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) from properly using the Blackberry app. BES means that your BlackBerry is associated with a corporate email account, usually an Exchange account. We are now working to resolve this problem, and will issue an update to the app as quickly as possible to resolve this problem. If you are a BES user, it will be necessary to wait for the update until the update is available to use the app. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience.

That's it! Now just go to the Blackberry App World, download the Cozi Family Organizer app and enjoy the benefits of being organized and connected to your family calendar, grocery lists and to do lists on the go.

Now, the FUN, unimportant stuff:

In honor of the BlackBerry App, here's a de-li-cious recipe for homemade Blackberry pie. Make one, give it to a busy, frazzled friend, and tell her how Cozi and the Blackberry app are saving your organizational bacon!

Homemade BlackBerry App Pie

Ingredients:

1 package frozen pie crusts (What? You want to make your own. Go right ahead.)
3 Tb butter
4-5 cups fresh blackberries
1-2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 - 1 Cup sugar (depending on how sweet the blackberries are)
A few big shakes of cinnamon
1 Tb flour
1 egg, slightly beaten

 Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. Set out the crusts for about 20 minutes to defrost
3. Melt the butter in a large saucepan on medium high heat.
4. Add the blackberries and stir until they start to cook down a bit.
5. Sprinkle the lemon juice and sugar on top and stir a bit more.
6. Sprinkle flour on top and cook a minute or two more until it gets thick.
7. Sprinkle on a few shakes of cinnamon and stir again.
8. Let the mixture cool for a few minutes then pour the whole thing into the pie shell.
9. Cover with the other pie shell and pinch the edges together.
10. Brush the top with the egg and sprinkle with more sugar. then, poke holes in the top (Don't skip this part!)
11. Bake on 350 for 30-40 minutes until golden brown. (Put a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper on the shelf below to catch drips)
12. Serve with ice cream on a hot summer day (oh yeah!)

 Yum!

 *If you do not have OS 4.5.0 or higher you will not be able to see the BlackBerry App World on your phone at all. (This is less than 10% of all BlackBerry phones.)

Recently, we surveyed Cozi dads, and were thrilled to get hundreds of responses. We decided to take that data, share it with some (funny and famously frank) dads who write blogs, and ask for their perspective to help deepen our insights. Here were our take-aways:

1. Dads are modest and don't want gushing kudos

The overwhelming number of dads in our survey said dads these days are much more involved in family life than in generations past. But none of the dads we talked to wanted over-the-top recognition of it. Whit Honea, contributing writer to Babycenter, DadCentric and the blogger behind The Honea Express explains that he's actually "tired of going to the store with the kids and having people come up and ask, 'oh, is it daddy's day out?' Dads signed up to be dads," he says "and you see the results in your kids' faces every day. I don't need to be put on some pedestal for doing the right thing."

2. Dads feel that kids' activities have changed almost as much as dads have

After being more involved, the second most popular answer to our question about how being a dad is different now than in the past, was to cite the level, intensity and cost of kids' activities. Many dads felt that activities took more time, went on through more of the year and cost more than they did when they were kids.

While many dads were satisfied with this level of "busyness," we got the distinct impression that some might enjoy a breather now and again too.

Troy Pattee, author of the Dadventurous blog, and father of two kids shared this insight: "A lot of us remember all the things we enjoyed in childhood - soccer, camping, baseball, etc., but we're not realizing that we had 8, 10, or 15 years to try all that, so we try and cram it all in to 1 or 2 years." The takeaway? "Take some time to relax and let the kids experience life on their own a little bit," says Pattee.

3. Some dads are totally cool with letting mom run the family schedule - but they love being in the know

Asked what their best advice for staying organized to other dads might be, many, many dads talked about communicating with your spouse or partner. But quite a few also said, "Let your wife do it!" It seems that in some families mom is still the one to take the lead in getting things organized and dad feels good about that, even when he's the one who first discovered Cozi.

Greg Zellers, who writes Telling Dad, is a self-described work-from-home dad, who explains that he's "so involved with the kids that the line between mom and dad roles is really pretty blurred." Nonetheless, when asked what advice he would share about getting organized, he parried, "I'd like to read that myself, because my wife is the CEO of the family. If it's not in Cozi I have no clue what's going on. So my advice would be, have an organized wife."

4. Dads totally rely on their cell phones to stay organized

When asked which tech tools they use most to stay organized, many Cozi dads mentioned email, texting and computers, but ALL of them cited their smartphone. "I can't imagine life without that tool anymore" says Pattee.

But before you run out and buy dad a new smartphone, take heed of the last point:

5. The one thing dad absolutely, positively doesn't want for Father's Day is a present

Moms tend to think of Mother's Day as the chance to get a thank you for all their hard work as moms, but few dads shared this feeling. All the bloggers we talked to shared this sentiment, and Zellers summarized the feeling this way:

"Father's Day is more about the kids than me. It's more a holiday for the kids to make cards and cupcakes and the excitement in their eyes when they give it to me. It's just cool watching them buzz around, but it's not a day I look forward to for myself."

We learned this on the Cozi Facebook page too, when many moms and dads expressed dismay at a post with details about splurging on what dad wanted for Father's Day (although some "liked" the idea too).

So what about all the buzz and the great-gifts-for-dad lists that come out this time of year?

As Honea dryly concludes, "Blame Hallmark."

We got the ducks in a row!

On June 5^th, Cozi set a Guinness World Record for the longest line of ducks in a row. Imagine 17,782 yellow rubber ducks stretching an entire mile through Magnuson Park in Seattle.

We'd like to thank all the families at the park who helped. You rocked! And you made the day loads of fun. As soon as we laid down the first duck, big kids, little kids and grown ups (and a dog or two) stepped up to help us line up our ducks. What a big help, considering we had to get those ducks touching nose-to-tail all the way from the kids' playground to the waterfront...

Why did we do this? To celebrate the millions of families who use Cozi to get their ducks in a row everyday. This was a big, fun gesture in honor of all those families... and to encourage more families to do the same.

And now you're wondering about what we did with all those ducks, right? Well, it turns out that for an early June day in Seattle, the weather was absolutely amazing!

Glorious sunshine and mid-seventies with a cool breeze = a park full of families. Let's just say we had no shortage of kids asking if they could take the ducks. So after the world record was set, we sent ALL the ducks home with folks at the park!

It was a great, sunshiny day!

You can still join in the fun, and maybe even win a smartphone to organize your family on the go. Learn more about the Cozi Summer of Ducks contest. Check out all the duck photos and find out if your ducks are in a row at cozi.com/ducks.

Now that we've set the world record, it's time to get back to helping families get their own ducks in a row—with THE BEST family calendar and organizing app out there!

On June 5th, Cozi will set a Guinness World Record, lining up more than A MILE of (rubber) ducks in a row. Each duck we add to our row will be inspired by you, our families who use Cozi every day to get their ducks in a row.

• Every time you write a to do list in Cozi, you're getting another one of your ducks in a row.
• Every time you add a soccer game or family vacation plans to Cozi, you're getting more of your ducks in a row.
• Every time you check your calendar on the run from your mobile phone, you're keeping your ducks in a row.

With all these ducks being lined up by Cozi families all around the world, it's no wonder that we felt inspired to go for this record!

We're also lucky enough to have some special guests joining us to celebrate this fun event. A team from the FlyLady will be there to help set this record, and to meet Cozi families who come out on the big day.

If you're in the Seattle area, please join us at Magnuson Park! Rain or shine, we'll be getting our ducks in a row from 11 AM to 3:00 PM, with the World record ceremony planned for 1:00 PM on Kite Hill. Click here to see the countdown and find out if your ducks are in a row.

Thanks to all our Cozi familes who keep their ducks in a row with Cozi!

We’ve already shared some tips on taking full advantage of Cozi to do lists, like adding to do list items to your calendar and using the starter lists and planning checklists from Cozi’s List Library.

Here are few more tips for getting things done with Cozi to do lists:

Basics

• As soon as you remember something you need to do, but can’t accomplish right away, add it to your master to do list. Bonus: Use the Cozi app on your mobile phone to jot down a task whenever and wherever you think of it.

Prioritize

• Overwhelmed by a long list of to dos that never seems to end? Prioritize your list with time-based headings. One idea: create TODAY, THIS WEEK, and LATER headings within your master list. (Remember that if you enter a list item in all caps, it will appear as a heading in your list.) Then drag and drop your to do items under the right heading. Now your list isn’t so daunting.


• Spend time at the beginning of each day or once a week to re-prioritize the list and select which tasks to tackle that day. What works for you? One? Two? Five?

Remind

• Add a date to a to do list item and it will magically appear on your calendar as an extra reminder. For example, if you need to sign up for swimming lessons on a specific day or else your child won’t get a spot, add “Sign up for swim lessons 6/6” and the item will show up on that calendar day!


• Send the entire list to your phone. Or, send it to a family member to get it done ;).


• If your kids like using Cozi (smart kids!), create morning routine and bedtime routine lists or a chore list. Let Cozi remind them to brush their teeth and make their bed.

More ways to use to do lists

• Forgot to renew your driver’s license this year? Waited too long to schedule your kids’ physicals to be beat the summer rush? For those appointments that don’t occur on a specific date each year (and therefore aren’t on your calendar), but need to happen in a specific month each year, create a to do list with category headings (all caps, remember?) for each month, i.e., JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, etc. 


• Don’t limit your use to only things you need to do. Cozi lists are great for packing lists (no more getting to the hotel and realizing your forgot your swimsuit and sunglasses), resolutions (sorry, you won’t be able to use the excuse of forgetting what they were come April), books you’d like to read, ideas for your upcoming remodel, and more!

How do you use Cozi to do lists to get things done?

Weekly agenda emails from Cozi are a great way to get your family on track for the week ahead. You can arrange for everyone in your account to receive one each week.

By popular demand, we have now added a way for you to send updates to your family as your schedule changes during the week. Maybe a rained out game has now been rescheduled for Thursday afternoon, or the family’s been invited to a barbeque on Friday night. Just make your schedule changes in Cozi, and send out new agenda emails to anyone or everyone in your family.

Here's how:

• Sign into your account and click on Settings on the left side of your homepage.
• From there, click on Email notifications.
• Click on the 'Send update' link beside the person to whom you'd like to send the update.
• Add a message, or just send the agenda with the default message.

That's it!

The updated agendas will show all the week’s appointments in your family calendar, with past appointments grayed out for reference, and upcoming appointments in dark print. The new agenda will be labeled as an update to avoid confusion with earlier versions of the schedule. Plus, you can now send a message along with the agenda email to explain any changes to the person receiving it.

Did you know you can add a to do list task to your calendar? Just add a numerical date to a task on your to do list, and it will automatically be added to your calendar.

For example, if sending in your son's summer camp registration form is on your list of things to do by next Monday, just add 4/25, 4/25/11 or 4/25/2011 to the item on your list, and you’ll see it appear on your calendar for Monday. It will be labeled as a TO DO item, and appear above your other appointments, without an assigned time.

To do list items with dates in the upcoming week will have the dates highlighted in yellow on the to do list. If the due date comes and goes without the task being completed, the date will remain on your to do list, but will no longer be highlighted. To add the task to another date, just adjust the date in your to do list.

To help you identify who is in charge of the task, the color dot assigned to the item on the calendar will be the color of the list's owner. With this in mind, you could keep separate to do lists for each family member, assign dates to certain items in each list, and have those items appear in the calendar, assigned to the correct person. 

A couple of things to note:

• Since these tasks will be imported to your calendar from your to do list, they aren’t edited in your calendar. Any editing of the item or the date is done directly in the to do list.
• Clicking the calendar item takes you back to the do list that contains the task.
• Reminders can’t be added to these tasks, since they’re not appointments. If you need reminders for your tasks, you could consider adding them to your calendar as appointments.
• If you use the send-to-phone feature for your calendar data, dated to do list items won’t be included.

We hope that you'll find this dated to do list feature helpful in keeping your important tasks visible in your online calendar.

Ok, I admit it. My husband was a slow adopter of Cozi. He thinks the family calendar is *my* job and just wants me to tell him what's going on.

But since the vow is "in sickness and in health" and not "as your personal assistant", I came up with a plan.

First, I added him to the weekly agenda email (instructions for doing this below). So, every Sunday night, he gets an email with everything we have on deck for that week.

Next, I did something a little sneaky. I went down to my husband's computer (the family computer really, because my laptop is off-limits!) and I set up Cozi as the HOME PAGE on his browser. Now, whenever he opens it, Cozi pops right up. He doen't even have to log in!

Does he check it every time? Of course not. But he looks WAY more now than ever before. It's a start.

Want to do the same thing? Here's how:

To add someone to the weekly agenda email:

• Login to Cozi
• Click on your Calendar
• Click Settings (in the left column)
• Click Email reminders
• Choose who you want to get a weekly email of the family agenda
• If you make changes and need to resend it, just click Send Update next to the person's name.
• Click Done

To set Cozi as your Home Page

• Login to Cozi
• Click Settings (far left column)
• Click the option to mak eCozi your home page (at the bottom)
• Drag the link to your browser home button
• Log out
• Click the Home button to pull up Cozi
• Enter your login info and click  "Remember me" (This was he/she will be automatically logged in to cozi every time)

That's it!

Come back and tell me if it helped! ^Carol

 

 

We know you love your Mac. Here at Cozi, quite a few of us love the Mac too. That's why we are excited to announce that if you've got the new, upgraded Mobile Me, connecting Cozi to a Mac iCal is a piece of cake.

Here's how to import a Mobile Me calendar right into your Cozi family calendar:

• Open your Mobile Me Calendar at me.com
• Immediately to the right of the calendar name is a small icon. (This is a share icon) Here's a screenshot with a red arrow showing you where to look.

• Click it to share a public calendar. (Don't worry, the URL is so complex, it's basically invisible; No one will ever find it unless you actually share it)
• Mobile Me will generate a URL that ends in .ics
• Highlight that URL and click "copy" to copy it

Now,

• Login to Cozi
• Click on Settings (far left column)
• Click on Calendar options (middle)
• Click on Schedules and internet calendars (top row)
• Scroll down and click on Internet Calendars
• Look down to "Add an internet calendar of your own"
• Paste the .ics URL from Mobile Me into the bar
• Click Done!

You will now be able to see anything you enter into your Mobile Me-enabled Mac iCal, right in Cozi.

A few important notes:

Cozi will be reading a feed of your Mac iCal, but you will not be able to edit it in Cozi.  To make changes, you will need to go back to the original calendar to do it. There may also be a short time lag between adding data to your iCal and when it gets picked up by the feed. (This is the same for all internet calendar feeds.)

What do you think, pretty cool, right?

PS: How'd we figure it out? A Cozi user told us on the Cozi Facebook page (Thank you DeAnnah Miller Baker!) See... I told you it's a gold mine over there.

 ^Carol

Everyone knows how Frequent Flyer Clubs work: perks, special attention, great customer service. Who'd pass that up, right?

Well, if you haven't "Liked" the Cozi Facebook page yet, you are. Because over on our fan page we've got all that and more going on EVERY day.

Things like:

• Insider tips on ways to use Cozi faster and easier
• Friendly, fast, and helpful answers to questions
• Early announcements of new features
• Funny (ok, hilarious really) real parent conversations
• Contests where we give away money. (Once we gave away $500 for the best dinner recipe. Twice we've given another $500 for school PTAs. And we even gave $750 to some fans to throw neighborhood block parties.)
• Small Victory Friday (you've got to see it to believe it)

In fact, our Facebook page is SO good, we've even got quite a few fans who "like" it BEFORE they started using Cozi!

What's that? You don't check Facebook all that often? That's okay. You can come straight to our page, and don't bother checking the other stuff on Facebook  at all, if you don't want to. Because who'd give up a free pass to the Executive Suite?

 

 

Do you love having Cozi in your pocket?

Get ready to love it EVEN MORE, with some sweet upgrades to both the Cozi iPhone app and the Cozi Android app, starting with this cool calendar widget you can see on the right.

What's new on your phone?
 
iPhone

• a new navigation home page
• speedier performance
• bug fixes

Android

• a calendar widget
• a shopping list widget
• speedier performance
• bug fixes

 
So, go to the App store or Marketplace and download these souped-up versions of Cozi today. And, while you're there, we sure would appreciate if you would please RATE THE APPS, so everyone else will know how Cozi helps with organizing your family.

Not sure how to access your widgets? Go here to learn how to download the Android device widgets.

 

Cozi for iPad and Android tablets!

It gets better! 

In addition to the upgrades, there is now a Cozi app for the iPad AND a Cozi app for Android tablets (like the Samsung Galaxy), so you can track your family calendar, to do lists, shopping lists and more --  in views optimized for your favorite tablet device.

 

 

Got a Blackberry?

We know it feels like you've been waiting FOREVER. But we are now on track to release the app for Blackberry by early summer.

Want it FASTER? Here's how you can help:

Go to the Blackberry Facebook page and tell them how much you LOVE Cozi and how much your are looking forward to getting that app.

And if you have a Twitter account, send a tweet to @BlackBerry saying the same thing: "Hey @Blackberry. Sure can't wait to get my Cozi on my phone." Or something like that...

(Shhhhh you didn't hear this from me.)

 Got any questions about getting Cozi on your favorite tech gadget? Leave it here and we'll do our best to help you out! ^Carol

Here are INSTRUCTIONS for setting up Cozi to show the daily weather forecast for your zip code:

(Note: this is really easy but you might want to print these instructions, so you can read them as you go along. It takes about ONE MINUTE to do the whole thing.)

• Login to your Cozi calendar.
• In another tab or window, go to www.wunderground.com.
• Type your zip code in the Search box at the top.
• In the top right corner, to the far right of your city's name, there are four icons. The right-most icon is a down arrow. Hover over this down arrow until the blue menu appears. Move your mouse to the item "Download iCal" and then right click. Left click on Save link as / Copy shortcut / Copy link location. Now you've copied the weather iCal for your city.
• Go back to the Cozi Calendar.
• Click Settings (on the left menu).
• Click Calendar.
• Click Schedule and Internet calendars
• Click "Internet calendar" at the bottom under "Add a..."
• Paste the weather iCal into the the calendar URL text box and click "Add"
• Choose which people the events should show up for and click "Done"

Done! If you try this, please leave us a comment and tell us what you think!

In case you missed the excitement, Cozi experienced record-breaking traffic on the morning of January 3rd, which caused brownouts for many users. (See our earlier post on this.)

As of 5:00pm PST on Jan 3, all service has been fully restored (thanks to a big increase in capacity), and all features should be performing as expected now.

If you are still experiencing problems, please let us know in the comments below, or by emailing us at support@cozi.com so we can be sure to track down any issues.

Thank you very much for your patience today!

Carol at Cozi

 

Dear Cozi Fans and Users,

This is a thank you note -- and an apology --from us to you.

This morning (January 3) you broke every record we ever set - even the pretty huge one we set back at the end of November.

You did it by keeping your New Years resolutions to get organized with an online calendar and by sticking to your promise to yourself to get all your to do lists online and into your phone.

And in the process you signed up for Cozi and logged in at rates that whipped our servers till they cried like puppies.

As a result, we have been experiencing brownouts today (January 3), which means that some users cannot log in, and others cannot access some (or all of) the Cozi features.

So let me just say now that we are truly, truly sorry. We totally get that you need 100% reliable access to your online calendar 24/7 without fail. And we understand that you expect us to fix this - NOW.

To resolve this, our crack engineering team is working non-stop right now to add capacity and get Cozi back to full performance - no matter how many new people decide in one morning that Cozi is awesome.

So thanks. For setting the bar so high. For being so loyal and sharing your thoughts and suggestions. And for making Cozi the #1 online family calendar.

Carol at Cozi

If you have photos saved on Facebook, this little app will turn them into a collage and share them with anyone you choose.

Try it now! It's the perfect way to top off your holiday with just a click.

 

Thanks to everyone who took the Cozi End of Year Survey! The survey is now closed.

(We'll contact the winner of the $100 Amazon gift card by email.)

Here at Cozi, we love to hear about family life. Call us crazy, but learning what is tops on your to do list for 2011 and how many times you go to the grocery store each week is really exciting to us!

Make our day by taking our quick end of year survey. It will take less than 5 minutes.

As a thank you for completing the survey, we are giving away a $100 Amazon gift card to one lucky winner.

Click here to take the Cozi End of Year Survey. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

As you navigate through your account today, you’re likely to notice a few new improvements to Cozi. Some changes are cosmetic- a new background design! Some changes are more substantive- a new appointment dialogue box to make it easier to enter recurring appointments! Here’s a rundown on the new updates:

• Monthly View: You can now see more weeks in the monthly view. Depending on the number of appointments you have scheduled, you can see between three and five weeks in the monthly view. If your schedule’s so loaded that you’re not able to view the entire month at a glance, the rest of the month is just a quick scroll away.

• Appointment Dialogue Box: It’s now easier than ever to enter recurring appointments via the appointment dialogue box. To try it, just double-click on a date to open the box. From there, enter your appointment information, and check the “Repeats” box. You’ll see recurrence options in blue; by clicking on these options, you’ll be able to choose your own recurrence schedule. Use the “From” box to select the start date for the schedule, and the “To” box to select the end date for the schedule. If you want to add a reminder, check the reminder box, and then select the timing. Click “Save” and you’re done!

• Mobile Settings: Just add your phone numbers to the mobile settings page, and then follow the prompts to verify your numbers so that you can receive texts and reminders from Cozi. You’ll automatically be alerted if there’s a problem with receiving Cozi texts on your phone. Not sure if your carrier supports Cozi’s texting features? Just check the list of operators. If you don’t see your carrier listed, please let us know so that we can work to add them to our ever-growing list.

• Width Resizing: When you’re on the calendar page, hover your cursor over the left menu pane to automatically expand the menu pane, including your homepage photo. Similarly, hover your cursor over your calendar to automatically increase the size of your calendar.

• Scheduling Tools: It’s now possible to add additional appointment information into the scheduling tools, such as the sports scheduler, the activity scheduler and the child-care schedule.

These improvements are in direct response to user feedback, so we hope you like the changes! Please let us know what you think, and let us know what other changes you’d like to see in future updates. We appreciate your feedback!