Typical Sleep Tracking
Sleep tracking with a smart machine is pretty similar across the board.
Is that actually useful, though?
You don’t need a chart to know how you slept last night—you experienced it.
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The question you should be asking is “how can I sleep better tonight?”
They use additional information to venture to figure out why that might be happening.
That’s the problem withsleep tracking on smartwatchesand fitness trackers.
Okay…what do I do with this?
You’re mostly given a bunch of information without any context.
In fact, the gadget you use for sleep tracking can probably do it.
The bad news is it requires more effort.
An easy thing it’s possible for you to do is look at your step count andheart rate.
These features are found onpractically any smartphoneorsmart wearable equipment.
Another good metric to cross-check could be stress levels.
You could see if high stress levels throughout the day correlate with poor sleep.
The things you eat close to bedtime play an especially large role.
The health app that pairs with your smartwatch or fitness tracker most likely has diet and water tracking too.
You’ll need to manually enter this data, though.
The point is you need some sort of additional information to go along with the sleep-tracking data.
Without it, you’re onlyconfirming things you already know.
