Most planners and productivity tools are geared towards work, but running a household requires many of the same tools CEO’s need to manage a company. Cozi offers such a resource for families. With Cozi, families can:
Manage the family calendar
Create customizable lists (shopping, chores, etc)
Send reminders and messages (text message to phones) to keep everyone in the loop.
Access the calendar, to-dos and other tools from a cell phone.
Keep a family journal.
Create a photo collage
And even sync with MS Outlook
Cozi is a web-based organizational tool for families. It offers a desktop feature as well as the ability to access Cozi tools through a cell phone. What’s really helpful about Cozi is that its not just for mom but for the whole family so they can keep insync with activities and events.
Cozi is free and easy to use. You can learn more or sign up by visiting Cozi.
When it comes to managing my life, particularly if I’m way from my computer, if I can skip or speed up a step I’m more likely to stay on top of things. Google Calendar allows me to quickly add events through my phone through SMS. I simply scroll to Google in my contact list and choose the option to send an SMS, type my appointment and hit send. Google texts back that the appointment was received. I also use it to send my self to-dos and notes that I don’t want to forget.
To set up the mobile option with Google Calendar:
Visit your Google Calendar online.
Click on the “Settings” option.
Click on “Mobile Set up”
Check to see if your Carrier is supported.
Enter your country and phone number, and then click “Send Verification Code”
You’ll receive a message back with a verification number. Enter that number in the “Verification Code” field on in the mobile settings on your calendar. (If you don’t receive the code, you can request it again through the Mobile Set up in the Settings.)
Click “Finish Set-up”.
To send a text of a new appointment:
Add Google Calendar’s SMS number to your contacts 48368
Send a text to the SMS number. Enter the appointment, date and time for example “Dinner 3/4 8pm” or “Soccer Saturday 10am”
Google Calendar will text back that it received the appointment.
Appointments I made through Text (SMS)
You can also have Google Calendar text your appointments to you. To receive the next item on your appointment schedule text “next” (without the quotes) to 48368. Text “day” to get the day’s appointments or “nday” to get tomorrow’s schedule.
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Timebridge is offer a free resource that makes it easy for people see your availability and schedule time with you. The great thing about this resource is that it doesn’t reveal the details of your schedule, only the times that you’re “available” or “busy”. Further is works with Outlook, Google Calendar, and iCal to synchronize your free/busy availability.
For an additional fee, Timebridge’s Meet With Me also provides a meeting room, web or phone conferencing, and text message reminders to those involved in the meeting.
As you know, I’m a productivity nut because I’m organizationally challenged. I’m always look for great resources to keep all my tasks, notes and other materials accessible. SpringPadIt.com is a new web-based notebook site that offers all this and more. Much like Google Notes or OneNote, you can create a variety of notes to organize tasks and projects. It offers a variety of premade templates such as budget tracker and fitness tracker. A clipping feature lets you clip notes or recipes to save in your note book. Springpadit also lets you flag (for priority), tag (for easy search), and write note on your notes. It offers drag and drop functionality to move your notes and items around for easy access. A big plus for me is that you can see all your tasks in one place across a variety of notes.
Because its a web-based program, you can also access other web-based resources such as restaurants, contacts, and maps. You can share your notes with others (with other users or through Facebook, Twitter and email) and have reminders emailed or texted (sms) to you or one of your contacts.
My only beef with the program is that I haven’t found a gadget to add it to iGoogle, and it doesn’t look like I can text notes into the program from my phone. But for a free service its very robust and easy to use.
As you know, I’m a productivity nut because I’m organizationally challenged. I’m always look for great resources to keep all my tasks, notes and other materials accessible. SpringPadIt.com is a new web-based notebook site that offers all this and more. Much like Google Notes or OneNote, you can create a variety of notes to organize tasks and projects. It offers a variety of premade templates such as budget tracker and fitness tracker. A clipping feature lets you clip notes or recipes to save in your note book. Springpadit also lets you flag (for priority), tag (for easy search), and write note on your notes. It offers drag and drop functionality to move your notes and items around for easy access. A big plus for me is that you can see all your tasks in one place across a variety of notes.