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 one in all these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you may hold it on the fridge like I normally do!
- Synced calendars from third celebration calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- Shade 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 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 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 consider it by day, by week, by month.
- Shade coded calendars for the complete household
- You possibly can select a shade 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 youngster [or adult], in addition to an emoji if they’ll’t learn but, and a specific amount of factors for finishing every chore! They’ll then come examine it off when it’s achieved 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 wish to get in a superb routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at totally different values for every person who they’ll 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, select a brand new ebook, $10 money, and so forth! These are all at totally different values, to allow them to select to spend it on smaller objects or put it aside for one thing larger!
- Chores:
- Meal Planning
- Shortly put collectively a meal plan utilizing your individual recipes or meals which were 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 photographs 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 photographs! Now we have 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 listing is, you may make a listing for it you can entry from each your telephone 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 party 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 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 house and know they’re updating at house 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 any Alexa/Siri plug in, and no music [gosh what a dream that would be]. I nonetheless hold a small Alexa machine 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 now we have happening that week, hold 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 part 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!
When you’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 so forth is an instantaneous sure!
