# Beeminding sleep: Bed time or duration?
**URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953
**Category:** Akrasia
**Created:** [July 13, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953 "2015-07-13T14:14:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@apolyton](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apolyton)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953/1 "2015-07-13T14:14:44Z")
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? š
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### Author:  [@nepomuk](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/nepomuk)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953/2 "2015-07-13T14:39:34Z")
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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### Author:  [@gaidheal](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/gaidheal)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953/3 "2015-07-19T00:20:14Z")
I beemind the time I hit the ātrack sleepā button in Sleep as Android. I have a ādo 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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### Author:  [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953/4 "2015-07-19T06:46:22Z")
I donāt 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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### Author:  [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953/5 "2015-07-19T08:52:42Z")
Surely it depends on what you want to āimproveā. (:
Iāve got plenty of goals that I measure from different angles, so you might want to track both. Though I suspect that tracking ātime in bedā may be a better (i.e. directly controllable) measure to beemind than ātime asleepā (which is an outcome of many factors).
Youāve doubtless already found these relevant threads:
- [Beeminding Bedtime](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-bedtime/87)
- [Someone posted about experimenting with several sleep-related variables]( āI couldnāt find itā¦ā)
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### Author:  [@apolyton](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apolyton)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953/6 "2015-07-19T11:27:29Z")
> [@philip](#):
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> āSomeone posted about experimenting with several sleep-related variablesā
No link? š
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### Author:  [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953/7 "2015-07-19T12:23:51Z")
did you read the hovertext? š
Iāll be glad to update it with a link if anyone can find it!
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### Author:  [@markrhill](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/markrhill)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953/8 "2015-07-20T17:02:07Z")
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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### Author:  [@jj2015](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/jj2015)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-sleep-bed-time-or-duration/953/9 "2015-08-01T23:20:50Z")
Hi there, I use Garmin. Hereās my input [Get sleep start time from Garmin?](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/get-sleep-start-time-from-garmin/983/6)