Family calendar

[scrumpledtitskin]

Hi

Just wondered if anyone had a suggestion for an app we can use to keep track of who is where and when.

It's for two teenagers and two divorced parents. We have a rota but have lots of swaps and bits and bobs and all put them on our separate calendars currently.

It's all a bit messy though and prone to slip ups and I wondered if there is an easier way??

I use an app called Cozi. My mum had access and knows when we need her to babysit before we do!

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Just put them on Google calendar and share it?
Me and DH have about 6 calendars in Google between us, some shared some not and when we create an event we add it to the relevant calendar such as for DD which is coloured red or for the dog which is a green coloured calendar home is yellow.

Is there a reason a normal calendar doesn't work? If you can use a normal calendar, then you can use either google or icloud one. You can create a shared calendar between multiple people. It'll show up on their phones.

I have 3 shared calendars for the family with two DCs. One for the parents (ie DH and I), one for DC1 (parents + DC1 has access), one for the whole family (DC2 has access for this too). DC2 is only 8 so she doens't have her own calender yet. Should give you some idea on how to organise it.

I have my own calendar. There's also one for school holidays (shared to DH and I) and also one from Apple for all UK holidays which I subscribed to. These are all on icloud. I have also my own work calendar on outlook.

Thank you!

I don't want to share my actual calendar with my ex, despite how well we co parent. Pretty sure he wouldn't want me to see his either. I just thought a separate app help, one we can all access but only relates to this

I'll have a look at Cozi

My husband and I use TimeTree

You don't have to share your actual calendar on Google calendar. You can set multiple calendars and choose which to share and which to keep private.
Also you can generally link to your schools calendar so it shows up in going own Google calendar app so you don't miss school events too.

@Fakeairpodsfakeoodie

Ohh, I didn't realise that. Mind you, that had the potential for me to mess up😬

@scrumpledtitskin as explained by another PP, you have your normal usual calendar to yourself. What we are talking about is creating extra shared calendars. Even DH and I have separate ones. So I have one with DH, one with DH and DC1. DC1 only gets family events related to her.

We use Family Wall.
It also has some other features on the free version like shared to do list and shopping list (not that you'd want those with your ex!)

It would probably be good actually as you can add things and choose who sees them, so you could add things for you and DC but your ex wouldn't have to see everything you're doing.

Time tree

Timetree is a good one. Used to use it with baby’s dad so we could schedule days before a set routine was done

Me and my ex use time tree for this exact purpose so it's completely separate just for our little one

That's really useful, thank you everyone.

I fancy something totally separate and with no risk of me getting mixed up, so time tree looks perfect 👌

Hi everyone. I’m also trying to master family calendars and can’t work out whether, in Cozi, I can keep my work/social appointments private within the shared diary. Can anyone clarify? Cozi seems to say that it’s a full shared diary and this isn’t possible…