When I opened up Cozi to explore it, I knew that the number one thing it had to have was a way to create multiple calendars. That feature was my favorite one on Google calendar and, without it, Cozi would have no chance of wooing me over. In addition to using that feature to organize all of our calendars, I love it for menu planning.
This was our menu plan from last week. I have the Meals calendar set as pink. Each day’s dinner I set for ‘all day’ as the length of time so it stays at the top of each day (otherwise, I’m liable to lose it amidst all of the other items on each day’s calendar).
See Wednesday’s calendar?
Anything that needs prepped ahead of time, I add to the appropriate time slots. No more getting to 4pm and THEN remembering that I needed to start dinner by 1.
When you open up each calendar entry, there is space to choose to have that calendar entry sent as a reminder, space to paste the address of the recipe or make notes about it.
We (loosely) do theme nights each week. I often forget, when I sit down to do my menu plan, which nights are what theme. I can choose to have any calendar entry repeat, so I have my themes do just that each week.
Next up? My #2 favorite feature–the shopping lists!
All comments are my own, I am not at all connected with Cozi except as a satisfied user.
