The Skylight Calendar is a lot greater than only a touchscreen calendar. It’s a sanity saver, group maker, and my household’s new BFF. It pulls every member of the family’s particular person calendars, together with meals, chores, every day routines, a photograph show and extra all into one spot. It comes with a stand that may be setup horizontally or vertically for a countertop show, a wall mount choice, or seize considered one of these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you may maintain it on the fridge like I normally do!
- Synced calendars from third occasion calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- Shade coded calendars for the complete household
- Routines + chores for the children [and adults!] with a built-in reward redemption system
- Meal planning
- Picture show
- Lists
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and so on into the calendar
- Accessible from calendar or cellphone app
- As new updates/options come out, they’re up to date on the calendar!
- Synced calendars from third occasion calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- I’ve a private and work calendar. My husband has a private and a piece calendar. Then we now have two youngsters who’ve their very own issues going [sports, school, bday parties, etc]. The Skylight Calendar seamlessly imports and stays up to date when any of us make a change on any of the calendars. I can filter by particular person and examine it by day, by week, by month.
- Shade coded calendars for the complete household
- You may select a coloration per particular person, after which select which calendars are assigned to that particular person [more than one external calendar can all import into one person in the Skylight]. So I can shortly see if it’s an merchandise for me, my husband, or the children.
- Routines + chores for the children [and adults!] with a built-in reward redemption system
- Chores:
- Add chores for every baby [or adult], in addition to an emoji if they’ll’t learn but, and a certain quantity of factors for finishing every chore! They’ll then come examine it off when it’s performed every day/week and get these factors added to their “financial institution”!
- Routines:
- Routines are nice for every day issues, akin to make the mattress, brush enamel, dress, clear up toys, fill a water bottle for the day, and so on! Issues that aren’t essentially chores, however only a activity that we need to get in routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at completely different values for every individual that they’ll redeem after they have sufficient factors! Some examples that we now have are going to a film, mini golf, ice cream, Crumbl cookies, solo date with mother, solo date with dad, select a brand new e-book, $10 money, and so on! These are all at completely different values, to allow them to select to spend it on smaller gadgets or put it aside for one thing greater!
- Chores:
- Meal Planning
- Rapidly put collectively a meal plan utilizing your personal recipes or meals which were included via Skylight! Do that all manually, or give it just a few prompts and it’ll create a household meal plan for you!
- Picture Show
- Rapidly and simply select photographs out of your cellphone to add to the calendar. When the calendar goes into “sleep” mode it can show a rotation [shuffled or not] of those photographs! We now have about 100 that we now have added – I’m undecided that there’s a restrict! We love wanting again via the recollections as they pop up!
- Lists
- Grocery lists, issues round the home, honey-do-list- no matter your listing is, you can also make an inventory for it that you could entry from each your cellphone and Skylight Calendar.
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and so on into the calendar
- This one is enjoyable! Subsequent time that the varsity emails about an upcoming occasion or a party invite comes within the mail, merely ahead it to a particular e mail handle [or take a pic and email it if it’s a physical paper] and it’ll import into your calendar!
- Accessible from calendar or cellphone app
- Make adjustments on the Skylight Calendar itself, or on the app! It’s good to have the ability to make adjustments when away from dwelling and know they’re updating at dwelling instantly [tasks, chores, lists, calendars, all of it!]
- As new updates/options come out, they’re up to date on the calendar!
- No extra needing a more moderen or higher product — this one will replace as new options are rolled out!
- Must be plugged into an outlet
- A few of my favourite options require the Plus plan [subscription]. Now that I’m utilizing them on a regular basis I don’t thoughts, however at first I used to be a bit turned off [and held off].
- There is no such thing as a Alexa/Siri plug in, and no music [gosh what a dream that would be]. I nonetheless maintain a small Alexa system for music, so as to add issues to my grocery listing whereas I’m speeding, and to set fast timers.
YUP! To me, sure, this has been a sanity saver for our complete household to shortly see what we now have happening that week, maintain dinners on show, chores, and so on. all in ONE place. Nobody is ever asking what we’re doing this weekend or what’s for dinner once more! Getting every part out of my head and into one spot has freed up a lot headspace.
The children are *excited* about doing their chores and incomes rewards, which in flip earns them rewards. That in itself makes it price it, ha!
Should you’re a paper and pen gal, this is probably not the calendar for you, however for me, who lives and breathes by my Google Calendar for the entire household, bringing the calendars in with the chores, meals, and so on is an instantaneous sure!
