I’d have 3 phases of sleep: before, during, and after. Each has its own data to gather. - Before gathers time to bed, assessment of how may day went, prebedtime activities (I take my BP), and where I may double-check some of my data entry. Supports its own factors. - During are the events within sleep. I track from Fitbit: Start and end, Awake, REM, light, and deep sleep. I also track bathroom interuptions, and the quality of sleep rating you already have. Notes for dreams. - After is the impact of the sleep. Assess how refreshed I am. Struggles and efforts taken to awaken. Supports its own factors.

I like how you broke this down Peter. That sounds tremendous.

Yeah, I use Sleep As Android, and it tells Google Fit not only how long I slept, but what times I slept*. Having that automatically sync to Bearable would be great too, because I have major consistency issues (basically no circadian rhythm) that I’m trying to improve.

Also, if you have a sleep data range, then it’d be nice if it automatically pre-filled in “time in bed” based on that range, which you can then adjust in case you lay around a lot longer, or got up for a good bit in-between.

Support for multiple sleep sessions, perhaps within a certain user-specified time window, or within a certain number of hours from one another, may also need to be accounted for in this case.

I suggest some kind of visual line, with time increments on it, where one can either manually add, or view via their paired sleep data, when they slept on the timeline with some kind of highlighted area for sleep periods. And maybe a secondary, paler colored area for “time in bed.”

*Google Fit seems to be having a FIT lately though, and randomly chooses to ignore days of my sleep data here and there. The problem seems like it’s on their end, heck ALL the major Google apps are getting review-bombed from upset people all with the same sets of problems, yet they don’t respond to in-app feedback and happily keep removing users’ options. So uh, the sync aspect is a gray area unless/until Google gets their crap together. ^^;;

(No edit button aaaafjajfh) I also back up my sleep data using Sleepiary. How it works is: They have a “Going to sleep” and “Wake up!” pair of buttons. You hit the “Going to sleep” when you go to bed, and it places a marking on the timeline view. And when you click “Wake up!” in the morning, it makes an out marker, and it fills in the space between the two markers with a bar of color. This lets you see the ‘shape’ of your sleep pattern, and it lines up in half-hour increments so you can see the times you slept-to-woke, as well as a Total Sleep Time added up in a field to the right.

Staying on the subject though, even without a visual timeline, at least having the ability to press a button on going to bed, and again on waking up, might be a pretty streamline solution for many people. Bearable can then simply log the time from the “sleeping” press to the “awake” press.

As someone with DSP, it would be super helpful to have a “went to bed” time and a “got out of bed” time. I think that’s what the “time in bed” is for, but as mentioned above, trying to remember to go back and edit that next day is a gamble (and one I lose more frequently than not). I would personally prefer each to be a separate input, rather than a joint one, as well. This would be (is) especially helpful for tracking sleep meds & if they’re working how I need them to.