dailiThe Daili blog
Practical writing on running a family — documents, calendars, lists, and getting everyone to actually use the system.
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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.
