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, every 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 every of these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you possibly can hold it on the fridge like I often do!

• Synced calendars from third occasion calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
• Colour coded calendars for your entire 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 cellphone app
• As new updates/options come out, they’re up to date on the calendar!

• Synced calendars from third occasion 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 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 particular person and examine it by day, by week, by month.
• Colour coded calendars for your entire 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 youngster [or adult], in addition to an emoji if they will’t learn but, and a certain quantity of factors for finishing every chore! They will then come test it off when it’s completed every day/week and get these factors added to their “financial institution”!
  • Routines:
    • Routines are nice for every 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 process that we wish to get in a superb routine of doing!
  • Rewards:
    • Assign rewards at totally different values for every individual that they will 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 so forth! These are all at totally different values, to allow them to select to spend it on smaller gadgets or reserve it for one thing larger!
• Meal Planning
  • Shortly put collectively a meal plan utilizing your personal recipes or meals which have been included by way of Skylight! Do that all manually, or give it a number of prompts and it’ll create a household meal plan for you!
• Photograph Show
  • Shortly and simply select pictures out of your cellphone to add to the calendar. When the calendar goes into “sleep” mode it would show a rotation [shuffled or not] of those pictures! We now have about 100 that now we have added – I’m unsure that there’s a restrict! We love trying again by way of the recollections as they pop up!
• Lists
  • Grocery lists, issues round the home, honey-do-list- no matter your record is, you can also make a listing for it that you would be able to 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 college emails about an upcoming occasion or a birthday celebration invite comes within the mail, merely ahead it to a particular electronic mail handle [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 dwelling and know they’re updating at dwelling 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 a 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 record 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 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 price it, ha!

When 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 direct sure!