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Jervasio

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Hello, I use Pillow (sleep tracking app) but one thing I hate is that this app nor any other I've tried tells me HOW to improve my sleep.. Yes I have a LOT of data about my sleep, but none tells me HOW do I improve it...
Anyone knows an app that actually translates the data to actual sleep improvement advises?

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Not sure which (if any) apps will deliver insight into the data that it's collecting about your sleep, but perhaps you can do some analysis of your data yourself.

Here's what I mean. Take a look at the outlier data. Focus on the mornings that you either wake up really tired, or really refreshed. Keep track of things that you did the day/night before these outliers. You might find some patterns.

For instance ...

When you wake up tired, it's usually because you went to bed too late. Then you realize that most of the nights when you went to bed too late, you had worked out after 6PM. So maybe make a change to workout in the mornings.

Or perhaps on the mornings you wake up refreshed, you typically went to bed before 10PM. And on those days, you didn't drink any coffee after lunch. Then you would try to not drink coffee after lunch.

The flaw in this is that you have to keep track of more stuff. That's where an integrated system that tracks all of this stuff, combined with machine learning, can deliver insight into how your body reacts to the world around it. Unfortunately, there's not really an app for that. Maybe fitbit has something in its ecosystem. They already track workout, sleep and food intake. If Apple were to take this data and combine it with what they know about you (work schedule, commute, stress) then we'd have the holy grail. But don't hold your breath.
 
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Not sure which (if any) apps will deliver insight into the data that it's collecting about your sleep, but perhaps you can do some analysis of your data yourself.

Here's what I mean. Take a look at the outlier data. Focus on the mornings that you either wake up really tired, or really refreshed. Keep track of things that you did the day/night before these outliers. You might find some patterns.

For instance ...

When you wake up tired, it's usually because you went to bed too late. Then you realize that most of the nights when you went to bed too late, you had worked out after 6PM. So maybe make a change to workout in the mornings.

Or perhaps on the mornings you wake up refreshed, you typically went to bed before 10PM. And on those days, you didn't drink any coffee after lunch. Then you would try to not drink coffee after lunch.

The flaw in this is that you have to keep track of more stuff. That's where an integrated system that tracks all of this stuff, combined with machine learning, can deliver insight into how your body reacts to the world around it. Unfortunately, there's not really an app for that. Maybe fitbit has something in its ecosystem. They already track workout, sleep and food intake. If Apple were to take this data and combine it with what they know about you (work schedule, commute, stress) then we'd have the holy grail. But don't hold your breath.

That's what I mean... A Sleep tracking app which doesn't provide you more information about your sleep is almost useless...
Maybe one of the top sleep tracking apps wakes up and starts analyzing the data and providing useful information, rather than throwing up the data on us...
 
Old thread, I know.....I started using a sleep app last night for the first time simply because more and more people I know are using C Pap machines and I just wasn’t sure if I was in the same boat or not. I think I sleep great and I rarely roll around much because my right shoulder is crap and I can’t sleep very long on my right side. (I am a side sleeper) I rarely wake up tired and think I get 8+ hours a night. I figured a sleep app just might give me some insight into whether or not what I think about how I’m sleeping is, in fact reality. S
 
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Old thread, I know.....I started using a sleep app last night for the first time simply because more and more people I know are using C Pap machines and I just wasn’t sure if I was in the same boat or not. I think I sleep great and I rarely roll around much because my right shoulder is crap and I can’t sleep very long on my right side. (I am a side sleeper) I rarely wake up tired and think I get 8+ hours a night. I figured a sleep app just might give me some insight into whether or not what I think about how I’m sleeping is, in fact reality. S

The thing is, yes you'll know a lot of data about your sleep, but you won't learn anything with it..
 
The thing is, yes you'll know a lot of data about your sleep, but you won't learn anything with it..

Think you’ve summed up where we are with a lot of the data that’s being collected as part of the ‘quantified self’.

I’d like to see Apple provide a lot more fitness tips than it does currently. The health app is very under baked in that regard
 
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