dailiThe Daili blog
Practical writing on running a family — documents, calendars, lists, and getting everyone to actually use the system.
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The Cozi 30-Day Calendar Limit, Explained
Free Cozi limits how far ahead you can add and view events. What the limit blocks, where it is actually documented, and three ways around it.
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What Happens to Your Family's Data When an App Is Sold
Almost every family app reserves the right to hand your data to a buyer. What the law actually requires, what the policies really say, and what to check.
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Your Family App Is Shutting Down: What to Do
An app you trusted with your family's calendar is closing. What to save first, how long you really have, and the one thing most people forget until it is gone.
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Free vs Paid Family Apps: What You Actually Lose
Free family organisers are not crippled versions of paid ones. Here is what is usually held back, what it costs you in practice, and when paying is right.
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How to Export Your Cozi Calendar (and What You Can't)
Cozi has no export button. Here is the one documented route out, what it does not carry, and the legal request that gets you everything else.
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How to Move Your Family's Recipes to a New App
Recipes almost never export. Here is the realistic way to move the ones you actually cook, why you should move far fewer than you think, and what to abandon.
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Getting School Term Dates Into Your Family Calendar
Only one of the UK, Ireland, Germany and Austria publishes school holidays as a calendar file. Where to find the official dates, and how to enter them once.
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Why Your Shared Calendar Shows the Wrong Time
An event lands an hour out, or on the wrong day entirely. The four causes — time zones, all-day events, daylight saving and subscribed feeds — and how to tell them apart.
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How to Try a New Family App Without Annoying Everyone
You have found an app you like. Your family has not. A two-week trial plan that asks almost nothing of them and tells you honestly whether it will stick.
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What to Look For in a Family App Before You Switch
Twelve questions to ask before you move your household onto a new family app — the ones that matter in month three, not the feature list on the website.
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Month Three: When the Family App Is Full of Dead To-Dos
Every family app works in week one. By month three the list has 200 items nobody trusts. A 30-minute reset, and four habits that stop it happening again.
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How to Share a Calendar With Someone on Android
You are on iPhone, they are on Android. Three ways to share a calendar that survive both phones — the public link, a shared Google Calendar, and a family app.
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Family Organiser Apps and GDPR: What Parents Should Ask
GDPR gives you six concrete rights over your family's data, and children get extra protection. How to test whether a family app actually honours any of them.
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Should Teenagers Have Private Events on the Family Calendar?
Where the line sits between coordinating and monitoring — what to insist on, what to let go, and how to set it up so the argument happens only once.
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Switch Family Apps Without Losing Your Lists
Calendars move with a feed. Shopping lists, to-dos and recipes do not. A step-by-step switch plan that keeps both apps running until the new one is trusted.
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The Mixed iPhone and Android Household: What Works
Apple Family Sharing stops at Android. Google's family group is built for Google accounts. What actually works when half the house is on the other platform.
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Medical Consent for Grandparents Babysitting: What You Need
What a carer can and cannot authorise, what a consent letter should say, and where to keep it so it is there at the hospital desk. With a template.
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How to Get Your Partner to Use the Family Calendar
Nagging does not work and neither does a better app. Six things that do — starting with giving up the habit that keeps you as the family's only scheduler.
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Where Does Your Family App Store Your Children's Data?
Family apps hold your children's schedules, schools and photos. Six questions to ask before you invite your kids in — and how to find the real answers.
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The 6 Documents to Keep on Your Phone for Your Kids
Six documents worth having on your phone before you need them — insurance card, vaccination record, consent letter and three more. Plus three to never keep there.
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Nobody in My Family Uses the Calendar App — 5 Reasons Why
You installed it, added everything, and you are still the only one who opens it. The five reasons family apps get abandoned, and the fix for each one.
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What to Leave with a Babysitter or Grandparent
The one-page handover every sitter needs: contacts, medical details, routines, house rules and the permissions they need — plus what to deliberately leave out.
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What Cozi's Free Plan Actually Includes in 2026
Cozi now has three tiers, not two. What free really gives you, what the 30-day calendar limit is, and why so many 2026 blog posts get the timeline wrong.
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7 Rules for a Shared Family Calendar That Everyone Follows
Most shared calendars fail on habits, not features. Seven house rules — who adds what, how far ahead, what a colour means — that keep a family calendar trusted.
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The Family Document Checklist: 27 Papers to Have Ready
A room-by-room checklist of the 27 documents every household needs to find fast — identity, medical, money, property, school — and which need the original.
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The Digital Family Emergency Binder: What Goes In It
The paper emergency binder has one flaw — it is at home. How to build a digital version you actually carry, what belongs in it, and what must stay on paper.
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Where to Store Important Family Documents: Safe or Phone?
Fireproof safe, cloud drive or your phone? Compare the three ways families store passports, birth certificates and insurance papers — and when each one fails.
