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, each 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 possibility, or seize considered one of these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you may maintain it on the fridge like I often do!
- Synced calendars from third occasion calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- Coloration coded calendars for the complete household
- Routines + chores for the youngsters [and adults!] with a built-in reward redemption system
- Meal planning
- Photograph show
- Lists
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and so forth 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’ve got two children 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 individual and examine it by day, by week, by month.
- Coloration coded calendars for the complete household
- You may select a colour per individual, after which select which calendars are assigned to that individual [more than one external calendar can all import into one person in the Skylight]. So I can rapidly see if it’s an merchandise for me, my husband, or the youngsters.
- Routines + chores for the youngsters [and adults!] with a built-in reward redemption system
- Chores:
- Add chores for every youngster [or adult], in addition to an emoji if they will’t learn but, and a certain quantity of factors for finishing every chore! They will 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 each day issues, similar to make the mattress, brush tooth, dress, clear up toys, fill a water bottle for the day, and so forth! Issues that aren’t essentially chores, however only a process that we need to get in an excellent routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at totally different values for every individual that they will redeem after they have sufficient factors! Some examples that we’ve got are going to a film, mini golf, ice cream, Crumbl cookies, solo date with mother, solo date with dad, pick a brand new guide, $10 money, and so forth! These are all at totally different values, to allow them to select to spend it on smaller objects or reserve it for one thing larger!
- Chores:
- Meal Planning
- Rapidly put collectively a meal plan utilizing your individual recipes or meals which were included by way of Skylight! Do that all manually, or give it a couple of prompts and it’ll create a household meal plan for you!
- Photograph Show
- Rapidly and simply select pictures out of your cellphone to add to the calendar. When the calendar goes into “sleep” mode it’ll show a rotation [shuffled or not] of those pictures! We now have about 100 that we’ve got added – I’m unsure that there’s a restrict! We love trying again by way of the reminiscences as they pop up!
- Lists
- Grocery lists, issues round the home, honey-do-list- no matter your listing is, you can also make a listing for it you can entry from each your cellphone and Skylight Calendar.
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and so forth into the calendar
- This one is enjoyable! Subsequent time that the college emails about an upcoming occasion or a celebration invite comes within the mail, merely ahead it to a selected electronic 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 modifications on the Skylight Calendar itself, or on the app! It’s good to have the ability to make modifications when away from residence and know they’re updating at residence 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 isn’t any Alexa/Siri plug in, and no music [gosh what a dream that would be]. I nonetheless maintain a small Alexa gadget for music, so as to add issues to my grocery listing whereas I’m dashing, and to set fast timers.
YUP! To me, sure, this has been a sanity saver for our complete household to rapidly see what we’ve got happening that week, maintain dinners on show, chores, and so forth. all in ONE place. Nobody is ever asking what we’re doing this weekend or what’s for dinner once more! Getting every thing out of my head and into one spot has freed up a lot headspace.
The youngsters are *excited* about doing their chores and incomes rewards, which in flip earns them rewards. That in itself makes it price it, ha!
For those who’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 forth is a direct sure!
