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 choice, or seize certainly 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 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
- Picture 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 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 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 individual and examine it by day, by week, by month.
- Colour coded calendars for the whole household
- You possibly can 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 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 specific amount of factors for finishing every chore! They will then come examine it off when it’s accomplished every day/week and get these factors added to their “financial institution”!
- Routines:
- Routines are nice for each day issues, akin to make the mattress, brush enamel, dress, clear up toys, fill a water bottle for the day, and so forth! Issues that aren’t essentially chores, however only a job that we need to get in an excellent routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at completely different values for every person who they will redeem once 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 forth! These are all at completely different values, to allow them to select to spend it on smaller gadgets or reserve it for one thing greater!
- Chores:
- Meal Planning
- Shortly put collectively a meal plan utilizing your personal recipes or meals which were included by Skylight! Do that all manually, or give it a number 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 is going to show a rotation [shuffled or not] of those photographs! We have now about 100 that we now have added – I’m unsure that there’s a restrict! We love wanting again by the recollections 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 which you could 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 varsity emails about an upcoming occasion or a birthday celebration invite comes within the mail, merely ahead it to a selected e mail deal with [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 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 system for music, so as to add issues to my grocery record whereas I’m speeding, and to set fast timers.
YUP! To me, sure, this has been a sanity saver for our complete household to rapidly see what we now have occurring that week, preserve 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 value it, ha!
In case 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 forth is a right away sure!