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, day by 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 possibly can preserve it on the fridge like I often do!
- Synced calendars from third celebration calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- Colour coded calendars for your complete household
- Routines + chores for the children [and adults!] with a built-in reward redemption system
- Meal planning
- Photograph show
- Lists
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and so on into the calendar
- Accessible from calendar or telephone app
- As new updates/options come out, they’re up to date on the calendar!
- Synced calendars from third celebration 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 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 individual and look at it by day, by week, by month.
- Colour coded calendars for your 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 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 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’ll then come examine it off when it’s executed every day/week and get these factors added to their “financial institution”!
- Routines:
- Routines are nice for day by 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 process that we need to get in an excellent routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at totally different values for every person who they will redeem once they have sufficient factors! Some examples that we’ve are going to a film, mini golf, ice cream, Crumbl cookies, solo date with mother, solo date with dad, select a brand new ebook, $10 money, and so on! 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 personal recipes or meals which were included via Skylight! Do that all manually, or give it a number of prompts and it’ll create a household meal plan for you!
- Photograph Show
- Rapidly and simply select images out of your telephone to add to the calendar. When the calendar goes into “sleep” mode it’s going to show a rotation [shuffled or not] of those images! We’ve about 100 that we’ve added – I’m unsure that there’s a restrict! We love trying again via the recollections as they pop up!
- Lists
- Grocery lists, issues round the home, honey-do-list- no matter your checklist is, you may make a listing for it that you may entry from each your telephone and Skylight Calendar.
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and so on into the calendar
- This one is enjoyable! Subsequent time that the college 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 telephone 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 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 preserve a small Alexa gadget for music, so as to add issues to my grocery checklist whereas I’m dashing, and to set fast timers.
YUP! To me, sure, this has been a sanity saver for our entire household to shortly see what we’ve occurring that week, preserve 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 all the pieces 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!
When you’re a paper and pen gal, this might not be 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 a right away sure!
