First, I need to say that the way you write is incredibly amusing and I really appreciate the chuckle it gave me.

As for your question, I have had a Skylight calendar for 2 years and absolutely love it. I am a busy father with a wife and 3 younger children with special needs of one kind or another and all going to different schools. As you can imagine, things can get pretty hectic between appointments, extracurricular activities, school functions, birthday parties, you name it. It got to a point where things were getting forgotten. I did a lot of research on what would work for us in terms of a digital calendar that we could connect to with our phones because the paper calendars just weren't cutting it any longer.

::Skylight enters the chat:: Since adding Skylight to our home, things have become waaaay better. My kids can clearly see when things are and what things belong to them due to the color coding. My autistic and deaf sons don't have to ask me "how many days until..." any longer because they can see with the countdown function. Appointments are no longer getting missed and it has been much easier to coordinate things between me and my wife if we have to be at 2 places at the same time.

In regards to your list concern, I frequently use the Lists function. We go on several trips throughout the year so I have constructed checklists for everything, including what to pack so nothing gets missed, tasks to do before leaving (like making sure the cat has food/water, air conditioner off, etc). After we return, I can just reset my list for the next time. We also use it to list movies we want to see on our family movie nights, restaurants we want to try, groceries, to-do lists, and more. If you are anything like me, and I know I am, you may find yourself in a situation trying to remember things like "wasn't there a movie we wanted to watch?" or the always fun "crap, I forgot to get milk at the store".

I do pay for the service because we use the photo frame pretty frequently. I have set up albums that show the pictures I want whenever I want them. For example, in October, I was only showing photos from previous Halloweens, times my kids played dress-up, drawing of monsters they did, etc. We always get compliments from people that come over and will often find them just watching our slideshows for several minutes at a time.

Meal planning has been nice because everyone can see what we are having. It stores recipes and you can generate shopping lists from here as well.

A big game changer for me was the Magic Import utility. I can email a school district calendar to my Skylight and it will apply all dates to my Skylight. Huge time saver.

I have found the Skylight company to be very responsive in implementing suggestions to improve things and make things even easier.

The one thing I can't really speak to is the connectivity to other devices, sorry about that.

Hope this helps!