Is The Skylight Calendar Price It?

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, day by 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 among these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you possibly can preserve it on the fridge like I often do!

• Synced calendars from third celebration 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
• Picture 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 individual and look at it by day, by week, by month.
• Colour coded calendars for your entire household
  • You may select a colour 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 baby [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 carried out every day/week and get these factors added to their “financial institution”!
  • Routines:
    • Routines are nice for day by day issues, reminiscent of 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 need to get in routine of doing!
  • Rewards:
    • Assign rewards at completely 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, pick a brand new guide, $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 larger!
• Meal Planning
  • Rapidly 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 just a few prompts and it’ll create a household meal plan for you!
• Picture Show
  • Rapidly and simply select photographs out of your telephone to add to the calendar. When the calendar goes into “sleep” mode it’ll show a rotation [shuffled or not] of those photographs! We have now about 100 that now we have added – I’m undecided that there’s a restrict! We love trying again by way of the reminiscences as they pop up!
• Lists
  • Grocery lists, issues round the home, honey-do-list- no matter your record is, you may make an inventory for it that you would be able to 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 particular electronic 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 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 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 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 now we have happening 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 little thing 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!

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 so forth is a right away sure!