Beeminding sleep: Bed time or duration?

Akrasia
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If anyone has beeminded his/her sleep, what worked best for you? Bed time or duration of sleep? What had better effects?

btw, @bee can you get sleep data from the Garmin API? :blush:

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I Beemind duration, but since I use Sleep As Android, I also have bedtime data automatically recorded when I need it. Fantastic combination.

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I beemind the time I hit the ā€˜track sleepā€™ button in Sleep as Android. I have a ā€˜do lessā€™ goal of 1 per day, I.e. to go to bed before 1am. Would be useful to have bedtimes added to Sleep as Android functionality!

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I donā€™t have a fancy sleep tracking device, and my getting up time is guaranteed to be within small range so I just beemind bedtime.

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Surely it depends on what you want to ā€˜improveā€™. (:

Iā€™ve got plenty of goals that I measure from different angles, so you might want to track both. Though I suspect that tracking ā€˜time in bedā€™ may be a better (i.e. directly controllable) measure to beemind than ā€˜time asleepā€™ (which is an outcome of many factors).

Youā€™ve doubtless already found these relevant threads:

  • Beeminding Bedtime
  • [Someone posted about experimenting with several sleep-related variables]( ā€œI couldnā€™t find itā€¦ā€)
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No link? :slight_smile:

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did you read the hovertext? :slight_smile:

Iā€™ll be glad to update it with a link if anyone can find it!

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Sleep Time by Azumio is a good iPhone app which tracks total time in bed as well as awake, light sleep, and deep sleep/REM ( based on motion detector data.)

Would be great if Beeminder would build in sync with Apple HealthKit to automate data entry, the same way my Withings scale drives weight data.

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Hi there, I use Garmin. Hereā€™s my input Get sleep start time from Garmin?

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