Helps you actively improve your sleep habits.
Goals are free to use – but let’s be honest to ourselves. Motivation to change your habits is much higher if there is something tangible at stake. Let’s say a few dollars.
Is there any documentation about how or why to set specific goals? For example, there is a preset goal of go to bed 3% earlier. Why would I want to do that, sleep therapists tell me to go to bed later to help consolidate my sleep.
Hello, so far, we have never had a request to allow the goal for later bedtime, may I use it for the suggestion forum?
The goal is preset for the value, that was used the most frequently.
For adjusting your bedtime, you can adjust the Bedtime notification timing, so you can be guided by the Bedtime notifications.
I like @gilmourb’s question and suggestion! I would like to be able to set a specific goal. For example, I improved my sleep start time to 10:30 using the goal, and I loved the motivation! But now it only offers me goals of 3% (9:50pm) or 2% (10:03). I think that is too early because some evenings I have work responsibilities. If I could set the goal to 10:30 (0%), it would help me maintain this bedtime. Also, I would like to be able to set it for nicer times as well, such as 10:15.
Hello! I’m a doctor.
It don’t really matters the time you want to sleep. Some of the studies have shown that there are optimal times of sleep depending on the age and stage of life.
The most important is to follow these and have regular habits of sleeping. I think that’s wrong with the app, that they want to improve de time, but it’s better to improve the habit (time of bed), not the time early and that stuff.
Hello @Fernando_Chavez we absoluitely share your opinion. This is why regilarity index is the central part of the sleep score and you have a regulairty Goal (this is the regular as clockwork goal).
Still for some people it may also be beneficil to try to reduce the fall asleep hour especially if they are socially jet lagged during work week. So having bedtime goal along with Regularty goal may still be beneficial.
hi all, a struggling father and app user here.
here’s my take on bedtime goal
before I had a kid I used to get up at 8 sharp and I’d fall asleep around midnight more or less consistently and I’d get my 8 hours of sleep.
now I have a kid who wakes up (and wakes everyone up) randomly between 6 and 8 and I don’t have much control over his sleep habits so I’m trying to adjust my own sleep
I have used the wake-up goal, and putting a $ wager is very helpful! I assumed that I would respond to the alarm (I use the bar code) meant I kept the goal, and if I missed this, I failed and made a donation to the app.
I want to set a goal for bedtime. I don’t know how it’s counted. What is the measurement that indicates I missed it, or made it?
Hi @nanciewanda, the Goals work with wager - you place a small wager. After the goal is finished, you can either continue or refund the wager.
The Bedtime is counted based on how many times you meet the criteria - you must start sleep tracking (go to bed) before the set time to succeed.
Hi Lenka,
I had a goal setup to start going to bed earlier. I was using the free version first just to see how it went. So I go to bed around 5:00 or 6:00 a.m. I set up a free goal to start. The goal app didn’t let me choose a time; it calculated a 3% improvement, which set my new time for bed at 4:08 a.m, which was fine.
I decided to change the motivation from free to a wager so I “gave up” on that goal to start a new one. I went to the bedtime goal, but instead of being able to choose a bedtime, it’s giving me numbers like 6:15? That can’t be a bedtime. I thought I could just choose the time I want, or that the app would again show my current bedtime and the the 3% improvement goal, which is 4.08 am. I’m confused. Can you help me with what’s going on here? Thanks!
This is a link to the screenshot of this on my phone. I don’t know why but I cannot figure out how to actually paste the picture into this post.
However, it’s exactly the same as the picture you posted and I did what you said, I clicked on the time. The place on your picture says 21:46. Yes, I was able to change that number. I put in the time as 4:00, (4am).The end result looked like this:
6:18
-47%
4:00
in one month
Hi, and is this the time you wish to have as your set goal?
To enter the image directly here on forum, you can use this button to insert images from the top row of buttons in the reply window, if you ever need it:
Yes 4am. So that upper number which is 6:15, that is actually the time that the app is using? So it would be 6:15 a.m.?
I guess that’s what threw me off. I’m not sure where it gets the number from, but my bedtime has not been very consistent at all. It’s been ranging from 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. . So maybe that’s why it used that number?
Thanks for explaining how to post a picture here! I will keep that information in case I ever do need to use that in a future time.
Thanks for your help!
Hi Lenka,
Another question about goals. I placed a wager on my goal to go to bed earlier. In answer to an earlier question, you responded with this:
“The Bedtime is counted based on how many times you meet the criteria - you must start sleep tracking (go to bed) before the set time to succeed.”
Does this mean that missing my set time once doesn’t mean I’ve failed (and forfeit the money)? How is one miss or five misses counted? I’m trying to understand how a goal is calculated. Is it about gradual improvement, starting out not doing well but learning, which might show as many misses at first with gradual progress showing as fewer and fewer misses? Are there set requirements, for example, I have to make my bedtime at least 15 times? I need to fully understand the way this works. Thanks