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My life improved once I started tracking my sleep using a whoop strap.

I can see the quality of my sleep last night and calibrate my day based on that. Do this everyday and every day feels good->great.

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I’d love to use a dedicated sleep tracking device, but they all now seem to require accounts, subscriptions, and forfeiting privacy. Sigh.

So I track my sleep with a timer app instead, and lose the detailed monitoring stats.

Something like this [1] then? I have not used it though, so I do not know how well it works.

https://www.withings.com/no/en/sleep-analyzer

Maybe, but it looks your data is stored on their servers. I consider data that's not stored on my machine with my encryption key to be essentially public data since any company, even one I trust, can be bought and the terms changed without warning.

Nice device, but the data is stored with them, so the privacy issue remains.

+1 data point here. I think the mechanism is simply getting me to think more about getting quality sleep whereas it before it was just whim or a crapshoot.

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