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When I first learned of the Skylight Calendar, I thought it as a family tool. After all, these kinds of devices that aggregate calendars and to-do lists, like the Hearth Display, generally advertise to families as a way to stay organized. But I live alone and use my Skylight every day, and I find it spectacularly useful even without kids. 

The Skylight's display has a series of tabs on the left that scroll through its main functions, the most important being the calendar, to-do lists, and photos. You can set a default screen by tapping the top-left menu and choosing the view you'd prefer. You can also set up hours for your Skylight Calendar to sleep by tapping the menu and selecting "Sleep Mode." I set mine for 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., but a simple tap will always wake the display, and I haven't had to double tap or wait for the screen to respond from lag. 

The Calendar functionality is the best part of Skylight Calendar

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The calendar is easily the most functional part of the Skylight. You can pull in your existing Google, iCal, Outlook, Cozi, or Yahoo calendar, and they can seamlessly sync to your Skylight moving forward. You can pull in multiple calendars from multiple sources too, each color coded, so you can choose different colors for different members of your family (or if you're single like me, use color coding to differentiate work tasks from home). You can also enter custom events directly into Skylight, but I suspect most people don’t do that since most of us already have digital calendars elsewhere, and there’s not much you can do with a Skylight calendar except see it in your app or display. 

The Skylight Calendar is also a digital picture frame

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I was a little perplexed by the idea of sending Skylight photos by email, but in reality, the Calendar isn’t meant to be cutting-edge tech. If you’ve got older parents or relatives who don’t want another app, an email is just an easier way to send images. My friends with and without Skylights still send me pictures of their kids, and in return I send them pictures of whatever I'm cooking and of my doberman in onesies. In this way, I like the Skylight as a less expensive hub that can be accessible to outside family and friends. 

How to use Sidekick for task, chore, or event uploads

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You can also use Sidekick as a microphone to tell Skylight about your event, to-do list, or recipe. I’d prefer that Skylight sync with my voice assistants like Siri and Google Assistant so I could add things quickly to lists, but it's only a few swipes to access the Sidekick tool and add items to a grocery list.

You can create custom Skylight lists

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Although the name implies a way to farm out tasks to younger family members, Chores is actually the functional task list. You can create chores and assign them to members of your family, assign deadlines, make it recurring if needed, and assign a reward value for the task (Skylight calls these “stars”). You can access Rewards in a separate tab in your app and assign them, let users redeem them, or remove them. 

Again, this isn’t as functional as, say, Asana or ToDoist—you can’t break chores out to separate lists, only individual chores, and I question why “Lists” exists when it’s a less functional version of Chores—but you can choose how these tools fit your family. Perhaps my greatest annoyance is that you can't use Sidekick on Chores, so you can't import lists or add to them on the fly through the microphone.  

How to create meal plans with your Skylight Calendar

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When I got my Skylight a year ago, my biggest disappointment was that it had all this additional functionality—from to-do lists to meal planning—but it didn’t allow you to aggregate from existing apps like ToDoist, Asana, or any number of meal planning apps. As a workaround, I found that most apps I use, including ToDoist, can be synced to a Google calendar, which I then bring into my Skylight to live on my calendar. I would obviously prefer to have those tasks in the To Do tab of my Skylight, but I'll have to wait until that functionality is added. 

How much does a Skylight Calendar cost?

The Skylight Calendar runs $319.99 for the 15-inch version and the gigantic 27-inch Max Calendar is $599 on backorder. Skylight offers an annual $39 subscription called a Pro Plan. It's not required, but most of the above features, from using photos, its import tool, and meal planning, are only possible with the Pro Plan. The first month of the Skylight Pro Plan is free though, so you can try it out to see the difference is meaningful for you.

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