Recommend your family calendar system
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Anonymous
| Trying to be better at keeping a monthly calendar visible in the kitchen. Last year I bought a day book from National gallery thinking that I’d be motivated by turning the pages to see all the paintings beside the week pages. But it spent most of the year buried under magazines and random mail. I just purchased a U line brand calendar from Target with a blackboard type surface to hang in our kitchen. Perfect size. I’ve since discovered it gets pretty bad reviews. Like people say it works well for a month or two and then the surface starts to deteriorate and rub off. I might just start out with it and look for something better—or take one of your ideas. Don’t need a huge amount of space—have one DC and don’t have much to list beyond some activities, trips, summer camps etc and maybe the occasional shopping list. |
Anonymous
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Google Calandars for everything
- Seperate one for each DC for their convenience. Not shared with other. - One for DH and me. Not shared with each other. - Family medical - shared by all of us. I am the one who subscribes. - Family social life - shared by all of us. I am the one who subscribes. - Family and friends - Anniversaries, birthdays, death anniversaries - shared by all of us. I am the one who uses it. - DCs school and college - Shared with just the kids. I am the one who uses it. What do I have on mine?? Things like cleaning lady schedule at our house. Home maintenance. Making sure that passports etc are current. |
Anonymous
| We use the Apple Mac whatever calendar. Syncs with every device and I can customize for family, myself, me plus kid A, me plus kid B, work, etc. |
Anonymous
| We use Google calendar. I have to have something I can pull up at work and on the go to check dates and times. |
Anonymous
| Op here. Thanks. Hoping for something more physical/analog, not digital. Thank you for the advice! |
Anonymous
Why? |
Anonymous
| We use Google Calendar. But if you're looking for an electronic system, a creator I follow uses a Skylight calendar, and it looks pretty cool. |
Anonymous
The black boards aren't good - use a white board if you need something physical, and be sure no one writes on it with a sharpie. But we use google - everyone has their own, and between school hours, everyone puts their items on their personal calendar. Anything before school, after school or on a weekend, goes on the family calendar |
Anonymous
| I have a Skylight calendar, it's amazing. We sync it to our Google Calendar so everything is up to date in all places. It's so much better than having to physically update a paper calendar every week (plus sports games change so frequently, and it's also synched to the sports calendars). |
Anonymous
Can I ask why? A digital calendar that everyone in our family syncs to is much easier. |
Anonymous
Not OP, but if your kids aren’t old enough for devices, they can consult a paper calendar on the fridge. We printed the Google Calendar for this purpose. |
Anonymous
| We use Google calendar. We also have an old iPad that functions as a central "physical" calendar for the family. It stays in the kitchen and that's all it's for (will that and control of smart home devices). |
Anonymous
+1. We have a skylight and Kids can still look at the wall and see what the plans are. |
Anonymous
I’m not sure how that could work- but when my kids were young and had no phones etc we had a massive white board in the kitchen with different colored markers, one for each person. Not as useful as digital by far, but worked. |
Anonymous
PP again, but this is why the Skylight is great - it allows DH and I to sync to the Google Calendar (and older DD can on her Apple Watch) and the younger kids can see it in the kitchen every morning. Also they can scroll ahead to see what's coming up in the future. |