How to digitally overhaul your family’s calendar

Organizing has this magical ability to turn chaos into calm, and that's exactly what we did for a family in downtown Asheville. We specialize in seamlessly bringing order to the lives of busy clients. Imagine a historic Grove Park District home undergoing a meticulous renovation while a family manages the complexities of working from home and homeschooling four children. It's akin to juggling multiple responsibilities, prompting the need for an expert organizer. Upon completing a year-plus-long renovation, the family realized they had inadvertently overlooked essential areas in their home amid the focus on the new addition. This is where our Organizing team stepped in, prepared to address the situation.

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Upon completing a year-plus-long renovation, the family realized they had inadvertently overlooked essential areas in their home amid the focus on the new addition. This is where our Organizing team stepped in, prepared to address the situation.

In our consultations, we adopt a detective-like approach, identifying cluttered spaces like the landing room/mudroom, library, art space, and even the basement. No corner is exempt from our decluttering expertise.

With the children now attending public and private schools and the family's schedule resembling a finely orchestrated performance, finding time for organization became as challenging as tracking a cat burglar in the night. However, we initiated the process where every family should begin – with the indispensable family calendar.

Our skilled Organizer, Sarah, discovered Skylight Calendar through Instagram, selecting it as the ideal solution for the family's needs after evaluating traditional options and AI-forward applications. It was the missing puzzle piece for their scheduling requirements. Enter Organizer Haley, our scheduling maestro. Armed with insights gathered from interviews with each family member, she developed a custom solution tailored to the needs of this bustling downtown family. Questions about navigating daily chaos and finding joy in an organized space formed the foundation of our strategy.

Ultimately, our dynamic organizers transformed the family's disarray into a harmonious order. As the family embraced their newly organized routine, we recognized that it was not just a makeover but a significant transformation from chaos to tranquility, skillfully executed by the masters of organization.

5 Reasons We Love The Skylight Calendar

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The Skylight Calendar is one of our new favorite tools for organizing busy families, providing one central location for chores, calendars, lists, and family photos. Available as an app the whole family can download or as a separate tablet device designed to cut out distractions, there is an option for everyone. Here are a few reasons we wholeheartedly recommend it to our clients–

Reason #1: It offers the most precise representation of chores, including fireworks and celebrations, when all the chores are complete. 

Everyone in the family is assigned a color, so it’s easy to see responsibilities at a glance. A simple click on each person at the top of the screen will simplify the view and allow each person to see their chores without any distractions. When all tasks are completed for a family member, an on-screen celebration is equally enjoyable at age 7 or 37.  

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Reason #2: It works for families with a wide range of ages. You can simultaneously download the mobile app, check off chores from your phone, and utilize the separate tablet to sync tasks and lists effortlessly. This is great for teens who prefer to use their phones and younger kids, where you may be restricting internet access or screen time.  

Reason #3: Chores and Family Calendars are in one place. This smart device will sync with iCal, Google Calendar, and more to show important events to the whole family. Never wonder where your eldest child is again! You can toggle from chores to the calendar with a quick touch of the screen.  

Reason #4: It is an aesthetically pleasing solution that reduces physical clutter: no more physical calendars, sticky notes, or whiteboards. With options to repeat chores to get into a routine, assign due times to create family flow, and assign tasks to multiple family members at once, it will save you countless hours previously spent on paper planning. It’s all in one central command station that encourages autonomy for the whole family. When everyone knows their assignments for the day, week, or month, it creates accountability.  

Reason #5: We have successfully implemented this solution for a family of seven! The kids range in age from 9-17, half with phones and half without. This system allowed the younger kids to report for duty at the central command station and the older kids to complete tasks on their phones. Weekly chores were suddenly easy to understand, and there was no longer a pile-up at the washing machine when everyone committed to doing laundry on their assigned day. The older kids could take on more responsibility because they could see how they were holistically helping the family.

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