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Skylight Calendar Max review: a game-changer for busy parents 

A 27-inch touchscreen digital calendar mounted on a wall in a kitchen.

This giant digital wall calendar and its AI assistant helped me manage my family’s busy schedules.

Spring is my busy season. Since my kids were old enough to play team sports, the impending arrival of March brings an avalanche of organizational tasks. Practice schedules, game schedules, and snack signups equal so many dates to remember. They arrive in different ways — paper flyers, Excel sheets, text chains, or through yet another team sports app — but somehow never in a Google Calendar link. It’s a trying time. 

But this year, I have a new assistant: Sidekick, an AI-powered planning feature for the Skylight Calendar. I just forward every lengthy email to my Sidekick and upload pictures of schedules and spreadsheets to its app. From there, the AI parses the data, packages it into events, and pushes those to my Google Calendar and to my family’s calendars on the big, bright, 27-inch Skylight Calendar Max smart display that’s mounted by our breakfast counter for all to see. 

I’m now prepared to tackle two high school sports seasons, along with all the other scheduling chaos that comes with being a busy working parent to two busy teens. It has taken a decade and significant advances in AI to get here, but parents, this is a game-changer. 

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Read the full story at The Verge.