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 considered one of these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you may 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 your entire 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 many others 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 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 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 look at it by day, by week, by month.
- Colour coded calendars for your entire household
- You’ll be able to 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 children.
- Routines + chores for the children [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’ll’t learn but, and a specific amount of factors for finishing every chore! They will then come verify it off when it’s finished every day/week and get these factors added to their “financial institution”!
- Routines:
- Routines are nice for each day issues, comparable 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 job that we wish to get in a very good routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at completely different values for every individual that 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, pick a brand new ebook, $10 money, and many others! These are all at completely different values, to allow them to select to spend it on smaller gadgets or put it aside for one thing greater!
- 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 just a few 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 is going to show a rotation [shuffled or not] of those images! We’ve got about 100 that we have now 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 listing is, you can also make a listing for it you could entry from each your telephone 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 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 telephone 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 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 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 isn’t any 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 listing 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 have now 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 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 value it, ha!
Should you’re a paper and pen gal, this is probably not 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!
