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 one in all these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you possibly can preserve it on the fridge like I normally do!
- Synced calendars from third social gathering calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- Colour coded calendars for the whole 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 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 social gathering calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- I’ve a private and work calendar. My husband has a private and a piece calendar. Then now we have 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 particular person and think about it by day, by week, by month.
- Colour coded calendars for the whole household
- You’ll be able to 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 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 little one [or adult], in addition to an emoji if they will’t learn but, and a specific amount of factors for finishing every chore! They will then come examine it off when it’s completed every day/week and get these factors added to their “financial institution”!
- Routines:
- Routines are nice for each day issues, resembling make the mattress, brush tooth, 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 need to get in a great routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at completely different values for every individual that they will redeem after they have sufficient factors! Some examples that now we have are going to a film, mini golf, ice cream, Crumbl cookies, solo date with mother, solo date with dad, pick 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 have been included by means 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
- Shortly and simply select images out of your cellphone 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 have now about 100 that now we have added – I’m unsure that there’s a restrict! We love trying again by means of 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 may 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 college emails about an upcoming occasion or a celebration invite comes within the mail, merely ahead it to a selected e-mail tackle [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 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 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 isn’t a Alexa/Siri plug in, and no music [gosh what a dream that would be]. I nonetheless preserve a small Alexa system 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 entire household to rapidly see what now we have happening that week, preserve 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 the whole lot 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!
For those who’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 many others is a right away sure!