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 one in every of these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you may maintain it on the fridge like I often do!
- Synced calendars from third get together calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- Shade coded calendars for all the household
- Routines + chores for the youngsters [and adults!] with a built-in reward redemption system
- Meal planning
- Picture show
- Lists
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and many others 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 get together 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 have now 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 consider it by day, by week, by month.
- Shade coded calendars for all the household
- You may select a shade 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 youngsters.
- Routines + chores for the youngsters [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 test it off when it’s achieved every day/week and get these factors added to their “financial institution”!
- Routines:
- Routines are nice for day by day issues, corresponding to make the mattress, brush enamel, dress, clear up toys, fill a water bottle for the day, and many others! Issues that aren’t essentially chores, however only a process that we wish to get in routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at completely different values for every person who they’ll redeem once they have sufficient factors! Some examples that we have now 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 many others! These are all at completely different values, to allow them to select to spend it on smaller objects or put it aside for one thing greater!
- Chores:
- Meal Planning
- Shortly put collectively a meal plan utilizing your individual recipes or meals which were included via Skylight! Do that all manually, or give it a couple of prompts and it’ll create a household meal plan for you!
- Picture Show
- Shortly 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 have now added – I’m undecided that there’s a restrict! We love wanting again via the reminiscences as they pop up!
- Lists
- Grocery lists, issues round the home, honey-do-list- no matter your record is, you may make a listing for it that you could entry from each your cellphone and Skylight Calendar.
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and many others into the calendar
- This one is enjoyable! Subsequent time that the varsity emails about an upcoming occasion or a celebration 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 recent 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 gadget for music, so as to add issues to my grocery record whereas I’m dashing, and to set fast timers.
YUP! To me, sure, this has been a sanity saver for our complete household to shortly see what we have now occurring that week, maintain dinners on show, chores, and many others. 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 youngsters are *excited* about doing their chores and incomes rewards, which in flip earns them rewards. That in itself makes it value it, ha!
If you happen to’re a paper and pen gal, this will 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 many others is an instantaneous sure!
