# Rescuetime but to fix night time screen habits **URL:** \ **Category:** Tech\ **Created:** [August 5, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-but-to-fix-night-time-screen-habits/10483 "2022-08-05T23:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![devinat1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@devinat1](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/devinat1)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-but-to-fix-night-time-screen-habits/10483/1 "2022-08-05T23:33:47Z")
I have a habit that I’ve had for years where I am using my phone screen or laptop screen at night. I am suspicious that this is effecting my sleep quality, but I have a hard time changing this habit. I already use rescuetime to track time spent on various apps and sites. Is it possible to set a goal in which time spent on apps after a certain time in the day is beeminded rather than all the rescuetime entries? This would be great in helping change the habit and shifting over to something like reading books (which I can potentially beemind as well bringing double the motivation not to stare at screens at night like I am doing now). ---
**Author:** ![k1rsty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/k1rsty/32/3165_2.png) [@k1rsty](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/k1rsty)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-but-to-fix-night-time-screen-habits/10483/2 "2022-08-10T07:10:29Z")
In RescueTime you can set up goals and alerts for different types of activity. You’d want a time filter to say when you want to limit yourself at night which you set up under Advanced Filters at RescueTime. Then you’d want to set up a goal (under Goals and Alerts) to be something like “Less than x minutes on All Time during Nighttime”. Then you can beemind the number of times that alert gets sent. Ah, I’ve just remembered that I don’t think beeminding RescueTime alerts is part of Beeminder’s core RescueTime integration. I do it via IFTTT. Also bear in mind that it’ll stop you using the computer just fine but RescueTime is very flakey at tracking phone/tablet time (at least on iOS, I suspect it’s better on Android due to the different restrictions on apps). ---
**Author:** ![devinat1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@devinat1](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/devinat1)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-but-to-fix-night-time-screen-habits/10483/3 "2022-08-10T10:07:23Z")
Thanks, that seems like a good way to do it. I am wondering now if I can achieve a similar outcome with the Fitbit integration. I have added a new post since it’s off topic from this forum. > [@Fitbit for tracking time went to sleep](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/fitbit-for-tracking-time-went-to-sleep/10485): > > I am wondering now if I can achieve a similar outcome with the Fitbit integration. My Fitbit watch tracks sleep, which includes the time went to bed and the time awoken in the data. Beeminder already currently can get the hours slept as a metric in it’s official integration. How about the time went to bed as a metric? I would like to use the time went to bed as a metric in order to avoid going to bed at late times. ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rescuetime-but-to-fix-night-time-screen-habits/10483/4 "2022-08-11T03:14:32Z")
(RescueTime has been pretty great for me on Android for years.)