How to make a digital calendar work when the only spot is a tiny hallway?

Wall mount by the switch is cramped but it works if you get one of those slim swivel brackets. My wife and kids actually check ours because it sits right where everyone drops keys. Downside is glare from the hallway light in the evening, so a matte screen protector helped a bit.

We tried the whole “single central calendar” thing in our last place, which was about as tight as it sounds. What actually ended up working was not worrying so much about where the screen lived but making sure everyone could add stuff to it without needing to touch it. My husband is the least techy person alive and he would never walk over to a wall tablet to type something in. So we just made a shared group chat where people text appointments and whoever sees it adds it to the calendar. The wall screen became more of a display thing than an input thing, which honestly took a lot of pressure off finding the perfect spot for it. A tiny hallway spot is fine if it’s just for glancing at, but I’d think about how people are actually going to put stuff on the calendar before stressing over the mounting.

A tiny wall tablet sounds like a headache to me. We tried a shared digital calendar in a small apartment and the real problem wasn’t the screen size, it was that nobody wanted to walk over and tap through menus just to see what’s happening. The person who set it up checked it. Everyone else asked them.

If the people in your house aren’t already in the habit of looking at a screen for this stuff, a cramped tablet by a switch isn’t going to fix that. It might even make it worse because now it’s awkward to use and easy to ignore.

I’d figure out who actually needs to check it before buying hardware. Half the time these setups fail because one person cares and the rest just want to be told what’s going on.

I’d skip trying to find the perfect spot and just put it somewhere people stand still for a few seconds anyway. For me that’s the kitchen counter, not a wall mount. I set ours to wake when someone walks by and that made way more difference than size. My parents actually use it now which I honestly didn’t expect.

Wall mounting by a switch just creates clutter people ignore.

Mine never got checked until it sat right where the mail gets dumped.

The light switch spot works if that hallway is actually on the path people take. Ours is by the back door where everyone dumps keys and shoes, and the tablet gets checked because you have to walk past it anyway. A spot nobody passes is a dead screen no matter how small it is.

A tiny hallway screen is still a screen people have to stop and look at. If they don’t already check a shared calendar on their phones, mounting one on the wall won’t magically change that habit. Figure out where people actually pause for a few seconds and put it there, not wherever there happens to be space.