We’re excited to bring all Cozi families a new way to plan meals in the app using Cozi Meal Planner. With this easy-to-use scheduler, you can quickly create a dinner plan for the week ahead. 

Find the Meal Planner by tapping Recipes and selecting Meal Planner Beta. Begin by viewing the week you’d like to plan for. You’ll see that Cozi’s done the work of tracking your busy days for you!  

Under each date, the number of events in your Cozi Calendar is displayed. With a quick tap on this blue text, remind yourself what’s coming up. Soccer practice till 7PM? Might want to throw something in the crockpot in the morning! 

• Choose from Cozi Picks, a library of recipes we’ve collected from our Cozi families. 
• Select a recipe from Cozi Top 20, a new list of popular dinner recipes.  
• Add a new recipe, either from scratch or by pasting in a URL from your favorite cooking site. 
• Choose a recipe from your Family Recipe Box

The dinners you schedule in Cozi Meal Planner will also show up in your Cozi Calendar. Whether you’re in Agenda, 3-day (Cozi Gold feature) or Month View (Cozi Gold feature), tap on the Meal, then tap View Recipe to bring up the recipe.  

You can integrate the recipe ingredients with your Cozi Shopping Lists by tapping the Shopping Cart icon at the top of your screen. Then, choose to add it to an existing Groceries list or create a new list.  

Plan your meals around your busy schedule

Quickly pick dinners for the week

Never hear the question “What’s for dinner?” again 

You have your recipes all picked out for the week and you’re feeling good. Now what? What’s the best way to plan for those recipes and make sure you have all the ingredients you need? The family organizer app, Cozi, makes meal planning easier by helping to automate your weekly menu by adding recipes to your Calendar and your Shopping Lists! We’ll break down how to use Cozi for planning out your meals and shopping trips, along with some tips on meal planning below.

With Cozi, you can schedule recipes directly to your calendar so you can see your full week of meals with just a few taps. Then, take the next step and auto-add recipe ingredients to a shopping list so when you’re at the supermarket, you can easily pick up every item you need for the week. Best when used together, Cozi gives you the tools to stay organized and make sure you feel prepared for the week ahead.

How to Make a Meal Plan for the Week

Recommendations: Include an overview of steps for meal planning including taking current inventory of what you already have, map out what you want to eat for each meal for the week, find recipes to support these ideas, create a shopping list and purchase items. Create an additional subsection for tips such as being flexible and using similar ingredients across meals to save on money/waste.

And there you have it! You’re on your way to better meal planning, made easier. For even more meal prep help, check out Cozi’s curated meal plans to fit your family’s needs and schedules. Be sure to follow @CoziFamily on Instagram for more organization tips and Cozi tricks.

There is still time to have summer fun with your family before heading back to school. By establishing an end-of-summer tradition, your family can get an extra dose of excitement before starting up the back-to-school routine. These traditions are also a great way for the entire family to enjoy some meaningful, quality time together. 

So, whether you’re looking for something low-key or a little more adventurous, we have you covered with a few ideas. And if these aren’t the right fit for your family, perhaps they will inspire you.

Have a movie night

Pick a flick, grab the snacks, and lay out the sleeping bags: it’s family movie night complete with a sleepover. If the weather permits, take it outdoors! 

Eat something silly

One Cozi family eats spaghetti with no utensils! “We eat a plate of spaghetti, and you can use your hands or face, but no one gets a fork! It’s so fun because parents and kids all participate. It’s a great way to end the summer and something my kids always look forward to!” 

Take a trip

From a family camping trip to a visit to the seaside, there are so many great places to make memories. It doesn’t have to be a grand vacation; a quick trip outside your city can do wonders. We might even suggest a staycation!  

Share your favorite summer moments

Another Cozi family loves reminiscing about their summer vacation before heading home. “Before we leave to go home, we all go to the edge of the lake and take one last look out over the water. Remember ALL the fun things we did and have shared as a family and as friends, and say thanks!” 

Listen to live music

From big festivals to local bands, many cities have live music, especially over Labor Day Weekend. Plan to stay up late to catch a headliner or two. A Cozi fan says to stop for ice cream on the way home!  

No matter if it’s your first year wrapping up summer with a family tradition or if you’ve been going strong for years, now is the perfect time to get everyone together for a final farewell to an amazing season of fun and family.

We’re excited to bring you a redesigned Mobile Month View to help you see who’s attending an event and to improve how you view, edit, and add events.

After speaking with many Cozi families, and collecting lots of your feedback, we’ve built the new Mobile Month View to help you plan with ease.  

Mobile Month View improvements are on iOS for Cozi Gold subscribers.

To upgrade to Cozi Gold, or to view and compare features, visit your settings.

Check out the color-coded Calendar

The Month View now has color coding! When you tap Month, you’ll see the color-coded dots of your family members to represent who is attending an event. Here’s how it works:  

• • Just one family member: The event is their color. 
  • More than one family member: The event will show the color dots of the first two attendees, and then you’ll see a + if there are more.
  • All family members: The event will show the color assigned to All.

You can see up to four events per day at a glance.

If you have more than four events in a day, you’ll see three small blue dots at the bottom of the day, indicating that there are more events on that day. Tap on the individual day to pull up the rest. 

Easily dive into a single day

In the new Mobile Month View, you can bring up a specific day just by tapping on that day. You’ll see a half screen pop up to show you all the events of that day. You can scroll to see all the events.  

View birthdays

If you tap into a specific day, and there’s a birthday that day, it‘ll be the first thing you see. You’ll know who it is by the color-coding: If it’s someone in the account, it’s shaded the color of their dot. If the birthday is celebrated by a family member or friend who’s not in your Cozi account, you’ll see this section shaded blue.  

View meals

If you have a meal in your calendar, you’ll see a section at the top of this half screen titled Meals. You can tap this to pull up all the meals you’ve added (Breakfast, Lunch, and/or Dinner.) Tap on the meal to bring it up in Recipes (and don’t forget to choose the Screen On icon while you’re cooking!). 

Edit and add events from Month View

With the new Mobile Month View you can edit your events from this screen with ease. Once you tap on a day, you can tap on any event to modify it. Once you tap on it, you can: 

• • Copy the event. Let’s say you’re going to barre class this Saturday and next. Just tap on the icon of the two sheets to duplicate this event. 
  • Delete the event: Decided not to go? Tap the trash can to delete this event. 
  • Edit the event: Tap the rectangle with a pencil to open the event and change any of its details, such as attendees, reminders, location, and timing.

You can also tap on a day and add an event from the half screen that pops up, either using Add Event or SmartAdd.  

Improvements to filtering 

You can filter by family member, and Cozi will show any event where that person is an attendee. To help you know what view you’re seeing, you’ll notice a small bar at the bottom that tells you whose schedule you’re filtering by.  

Within the filter, you can click on a day to see just the events the filtered family member is attending.  

Tap the X to go back to a view of the month that includes all family member events. 

Don’t miss these additional upgrades

We’ve given your Mobile Month View a little more space to breathe! You’ll see spacing in between months so you can more clearly distinguish between them. 

You might notice you’ll squint less; we’ve made the text larger so it’s easier to read.  

Never lose your place again: When you use the month picker at the top to view a month, no matter what date you choose, you’ll be oriented to the first week of the month so you can see the whole month on your screen.  

Finally, check it out on iPad! The new Mobile Month View is compatible with your iPad, so you can see all these feature improvements on a bigger screen, too. 

We hope you enjoy this improved view and as always, happy planning!

Some lists are short and sweet. But many of them grow and grow, which can be overwhelming if you’re juggling them in your mind.

Don’t let your lists clutter up your precious mental space. Instead, just do a brain dump—get all the odds and ends out from inside your head and jot them down on paper or add them to Cozi!  

Benefits of writing lists 

Stay organized 

Psychology Today points out that lists are harder to remember than stories, for example, because the items aren’t connected in the same meaningful way. Maybe your son needs to take back his library books, but that isn’t a natural consequence of having to get your car’s oil changed (even if both of them piled up because you were out of town last weekend.)  

If you’re only keeping track mentally, you’re more likely to lose track. Write your ideas down. 

Feel organized  

Lists can also help you feel a stronger sense of being organized—they’re a really simple way to cut down on frustration. They can even make you feel more satisfied with your accomplishments. Basically, a list helps you replace stress with fulfillment. 

Save time 

Lists are concise and easy to read. When you make one, you cut out the time you spend trying to remember things (and then going back to the store because you forgot kiwis). When you read a list, you can just scan it quickly and then get to work. 

How to make Cozi lists 

Shopping lists 

Tap Lists in the bottom menu, which takes you to the Shopping tab. Tap a shopping list, then tap + Add item. Type in your item and that’s it! 

Anyone on your account can add to your shopping list. If your son drinks the last of the milk, he can add it to the list right away instead of waiting to (hopefully) tell you, or writing on a paper list you’ll leave behind on your grocery store run. 

Cozi Tip: Did you know you can even add recipe ingredients directly to a shopping list? Go to Recipes in the bottom menu and select a recipe (like the Bacon Cheddar Apple Frittata). Then click the shopping cart icon in the top menu, select the list you want to add it to, and tap Save. You can even add the meal to your Calendar. 

To Do Lists 

This is where you can go all-out on a brain dump. There’s always so much to do, but your tasks feel less overwhelming and more manageable when they’re settled in a tidy, orderly list, and not just sloshing around in your brain.  

Here you can assign a list to yourself or a family member (if you’re using the mobile app) or keep it as a shared list. Categorize all the jobs to be done by family member, month, or room of the house—you choose! You can create endless lists.  

Cozi Tip: To organize your tasks even more, you can create headings for different sections of your list. In the Cozi mobile app, just type in all caps to automatically turn an item into a colored section subheading. When using Cozi on the web, click the three-dot icon in the upper left corner of your list and select Add Section.

Give your brain a break 

Lists are psychologically healthy, practically efficient, and convenient. Give it a whirl and start building your own lists in Cozi on the web through the link below. Or, open the mobile app and navigate to Lists to get started.