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 considered one of these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you’ll be able to preserve it on the fridge like I normally do!
- Synced calendars from third celebration calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- Coloration coded calendars for all the household
- Routines + chores for the children [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 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.
- Coloration coded calendars for all the household
- You may 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 shortly 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 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 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, similar to 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 activity that we need to get in a superb routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at totally different values for every person who they’ll redeem once 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 guide, $10 money, and many others! These are all at totally different values, to allow them to select to spend it on smaller objects or reserve it for one thing larger!
- Chores:
- Meal Planning
- Rapidly put collectively a meal plan utilizing your personal recipes or meals which were included by Skylight! Do that all manually, or give it a couple of prompts and it’ll create a household meal plan for you!
- Picture Show
- Rapidly and simply select images 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 images! We’ve about 100 that now we 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 checklist is, you can also make a listing for it which you can 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 birthday celebration invite comes within the mail, merely ahead it to a particular 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 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 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 gadget for music, so as to add issues to my grocery checklist whereas I’m dashing, and to set fast timers.
YUP! To me, sure, this has been a sanity saver for our entire household to shortly 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 all the things 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 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 direct sure!
