What are Reddit's favorite android apps in the category lifestyle?

check out the app CVSimulator. It shows how a colorblind person sees the world.

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check out the app CVSimulator. It shows how a colorblind person sees the world.

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There is no shortcut. Just get the fuck out of bed when your alarm goes off. No excuses.

EDIT: It does help a lot if you use an app on your phone which uses the movement sensor to detect when best to awaken you in a 30-60 min window. I use Sleep as Android because cloud backup, but I'm sure others are as good.

I'm a fan of Sleep As Android. Mostly I just love the slowly increasing volume thunderstorm in the distance alarm. Very mellow to wake up to. I also like the math catchpa to turn off the alarm.

I used to feel that pain. Here's what I do:

• Sleep for android
• Phone plugged in across the room
• QR code scan required to deactivate (no snoozing! just get the fuck up)
• QR code I have to scan is in my bathroom
• Wake up 1hr 20min before I need to walk out the door
• Coffee before leaving

Using this system gets me up without snoozing till the absolute last fucking minute every fucking day (seriously how did I live that way so long?! This is so much better), which gives me way more time to wake up and do activities before I depart.

I started the cup of coffee before my commute a year or 2 back (used to wait until I got TO work because free coffee) and I have never had my eyes droop since. I think the coffee was the biggest factor but I am so happy with the other changes I had to share.

TL;DR

Coffee before you commute, Sleep for Android QR scan changed my mornings for the better. Going to sleep can fuck off

Edit: Messed up the wording for the app. It is Sleep As Android

I like Sleep with Android. It appears gets better and better. Great for droids.

edit: Sleep as Android but sticking with Sleeping with Androids.

There's an app called Sleep as Android that tracks your sleep and adjusts your alarm clock within a choosen timeframe based on your phase of sleep. Never really worked for myself but other people seem to love it.

I think this is a feature exclusive to Samsung phones. I don't see the option on my Nexus 6P running Android 7.1.1.

I use the Trusted Contacts app instead.

Try Sleep as Android

It has "captcha" feature for alarms. I use the one that requires me to get up and scan a QR code somewhere in the house, but that's not the only option.

You don't need to track your sleep if you don't want to, just use it as an alarm clock even after a trial period ends.

check out the app CVSimulator

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Google Contatti Fidati.

• Aggiungi i tuoi familiari come contatti fidati.

• Consenti ai contatti fidati di richiedere la tua posizione. Se non ci sono problemi, puoi rifiutare la richiesta. Se invece non sei in grado di rispondere, la tua ultima posizione nota viene condivisa automaticamente entro un intervallo di tempo personalizzato, anche se sei offline o se il tuo telefono ha la batteria scarica.

• Condividi la tua posizione se ti senti in pericolo o ti trovi in una situazione di emergenza.

• Programma un avviso sulla posizione per il futuro.

• I tuoi contatti fidati possono vedere lo stato di attività del tuo telefono e sapere subito che stai bene.

• Grazie all'integrazione con Condivisione della posizione di Google Maps, puoi facilmente attivare in modo permanente la condivisione della tua posizione con i tuoi familiari o figli e individuarli direttamente su Google Maps.

check out the app CVSimulator

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There is Daylio, I have been using it for a few months, its a free app with some premium utilities, but most features you need are free.

You can choose your mood from 1-5, what activities you did during the day, add pictures and anotations, and and have multiple entries in a day.

It comes with some pre-configured activities for you to select, but you can completely redefine them to what you think matters.

If you're curious to see the world from this perspective you can use this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=asada0.android.cvsimulator

I've used Timely since it first came out, and I've never looked back. They were also bought by Google a while back, so this will probably end up in AOSP at some point. I hope.

Sleep for Android does this for Android (duh). Aside from sensing using the accelerometer/gyroscope it can also use ultrasound sensing with the phone placed next to the bed.

It has a ton of other additional features such as logging and showing charts over your sleep history, playing lullabies, helping induce lucid dreaming and even using Wi-Fi connected lights as a sunrise simulator instead of using an alarm.

I have a QR code taped to my bathroom mirror. My phone's alarm won't turn off until I walk my tired self down the hall and into the bathroom to scan the QR code. Then, you're already in the bathroom, so you can just start getting ready.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en

Has math problems, QR scanning, NFC scanning, and a few other methods to keep you from just slapping the snooze button. Pretty nifty. Oh and it will track your sleep cycles and wake you up at a good time.

An sich keine blöde Idee, die Schlafdauer so zu timen dass man in einer Leichtschlafphase aufwacht... aber das fundamentale Problem bei dem Ansatz ist halt, dass man nur schwer die Kontrolle darüber hat wann genau man einschläft.

Ich empfehle den umgekehrten Ansatz: Nicht die Einschlafzeit anpassen, sondern die Weckzeit.
Da gibt's echt gute Apps für, ich nutze sleep as Android. Klingt auf den ersten Blick wie eine weitere schwachsinnige Lifestyle-Optimierungs-App, aber die bietet wirklich einen reellen Mehrwert.
Man legt sich das Handy mit auf die Matratze, und durch Mikrofon und Lagesensor merkt das Gerät wenn man gerade im Bett herumwühlt (also gerade nur im Leichtschlaf ist). Man stellt dann zum Beispiel ein dass man geweckt werden will, wenn irgendwann zwischen 6:00 und 6:30 eine Leichtschlafphase festgestellt wird. Auch wenn man dann netto vielleicht mal 20 Minuten weniger schläft als man eigentlich könnte, kommt man deutlich besser aus den Federn.

Timely alarm clock Great alarm that syncs with all your devices and can be used as a nightstand clock.

Daylio

It's a basic journaling/mood/activity tracker I've used every day for almost 2 years. You can add custom activities (all self-reported) and have it remind you each day to keep it updated. Once you've collected enough data, it can start to pick out trends in how your moods and activities correlate (ex: you're most happy on days you've hung out with friends, or most bleh when you've drank).

Unfortunately it doesn't go too in-depth with analysis, and would be cool if it had some AI smarts to better identify trends instead of the mostly manual work it requires now. But you can export all your data to Google Drive and probably put it through something more sophisticated if you really want.

Sleep as Android has the same function, as well as other features like making you solve math problems or scan a QR code to turn off the alarm. I have a complicated relationship with the snooze button so that last piece is super helpful for me.

Sleep as Android

It does other cool things like track your sleep state via motion and try to wake you up outside of REM. Record snoring.

Or alternatively, just install Sleep As Android - it's possibly the best consumer sleep monitoring system out there. The new version has a sonar system which means you don't even need to put the phone on your bed anymore. Oh and Sleep automatically integrates with your smart lights and other home automation systems, so it can dim then lights at night, simulate the sunrise etc.

There are apps like Sleep as Android which track your sleep and are supposed to gauge when you're through a sleep cycle so it can wake you up when you're in a light sleep stage. It's worked for me pretty well, although I don't take a ton of naps.

Also if you have a Galaxy phone it's fairly easy to set up an alarm that requires you scan a NFC sticker to shut it off. I have my sticker in the kitchen by the coffee and the coffee set to be made by the time my phone is going off.

Works pretty well.

Google maps > Location Sharing > Add your family members so that they can see your location.

Also install Trusted Contacts & complete the set up.

If you are going to a place where you might not get internet connection, you can use,

Android Lost- Make a new Gmail account. (If you don't want to use your regular account) Add that Gmail account to your Android phone. Download this app. Complete the set up process using their website. And write down/take a screenshot of sms codes. So that even if you are not connected to internet, your family members will be able to sms specific command to your phone number & in reply your phone will send your location via sms. Try to perform this to see if it's working or not before leaving for trip. (You will have to give SMS & GPS permissions to make it work.)

Also this means that you will have to keep your location & Mobile data on all the time. Don't forget to carry decent power banks. You can also tell your family that you will call/send a message on specific time everyday. Also & install some useful apps. Happy journey☺

I use Sleep as Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en

Basically, you put your phone on your bed while its plugged in, and it feels the vibrations of when you're tossing and turning, so it knows where you are in your sleep cycle. You give it a time you want to wake up, but if it notices that you're in a certain sleep cycle, it'll wake you up up to 30 minutes early, so you're not in too deep of sleep.

Link to app This is the app, it uses sonar to detect your body movements to tell what type of sleep phase you're in and assesses your quality and duration from it! I am a student so making sure I get enough sleep is important to ensure my quality of work is maintained!

There's an android app which gives you a QR code for you to print off and tape to your bathroom mirror or something. Then the alarm doesn't switch off until you get out of bed and scan the QR code with your phone. It also uses GPS so it doesn't happen if you're not at home (that would suck).

edit:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep

Just this. AFAIK similar functionality is baked into iOS (along with blue light elimination, like f.lux), but since I do not own any Apple devices, I can't comment more.

Now, I do not know how it will work out for you if you're not sleeping alone. I'm single, noone beside me to disrupt the sensor and apps calculations. A smartwatch must be a solution, maybe?

Now, assuming you sleep alone, Sleep as Android is already configured almost perfectly out-of-the-box so all you have to do is enter the time of the alarm, initiate sleep tracking and put the phone on the bed with you. Simple as that. Based on the amount and the intensity of your movement the app will know the sleep phase you're into - deep sleep (ideally this phase should never be interrupted) or light sleep (this is when your body is almost awake and ready to wake up, even if you don't "feel" it). There's also REM phase, but let's forget about it for now.

Basically, to wake up without feeling like you've been just crushed by a bulldozer you need to 1) sleep long enough, for me it's no less than 6 hrs, and 2) be gently woken up in the middle of a light sleep phase. The app does the 2nd part, part 1 is up to you, but even when you don't sleep enough you still wake up feeling much better compared to what could've happened if you slept 4 hrs and woke up in the deep sleep phase.

Any more specific questions? Shoot em here or PM me, I'll gladly try to answer all of them because honestly that tiny price of what the dev asks for the full version was probably in the top 5 investments I made in my life so far.

Sleep As Android is the best Alarm Clock if you are remotely interested into analyzing your sleep-habits and if you can't wake up CAPTCHA Pack for Sleep as Android can fix that

There's an app called Sleep as Android in which you can choose from a selection of wake up challenges. It has some math with configurable difficulty, NFC tag scanning and even barcode scanning.

I have it set so that it let's me snooze 3 times before I have to get up, walk downstairs and scan the NFC tag before it shuts up.

I use Sleep as Android app to wake me up. It can track your sleep and wake you in the best moment, so you will not feel as much tired.

It actually works pretty good and I am able to get up relatively okay even if I can sleep only 4 or 5 hours a day.

Also, I did set up NFC sticker on my mirror in bathroom. That way, if I want to turn off the alarm, I have to get up and actually go there to scan it.

None of this consistently worked for me, until I found this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.havchr.mr2&hl=en

Now I have to scan 2 QR codes around my apartment in 10 minute intervals to shut my alarm up. Never fails!

Daylio is like a quick and streamlined day journal. I didn't think I'd like it but it's great for me to quickly tap a few buttons to represent my day

The free Daylio app is a great tool to do this in an easy quick way, and can you get daily reminders and historical stats! I've been using it for years and feel it really helps me think about how I spend my days.

I personally find "Sleep as Android" much better. It has CAPTCHA style alarms that make it harder to sleep in. eg, maths equations, or scan a QR code in your bathroom...

Plus it integrates with Tasker, if you happen to like tinkering around with your phone.

Probá https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droom.sleepIfUCan&hl=en, me cambió la vida.

Configurás la alarma, ponele para que suene al palo, y que solo la puedas desactivar sacando una foto, de algún lugar lejos de la cama, si es afuera de tu casa mejor.

Te bloquea el celu, no podés ni apagarlo hasta que te levantes y saques esa bendita foto.

Repito, posta me cambió la vida, yo me ponía 10 alarmas y las posponía todas y no me levantaba, con esto, nunca más.

Sleep As Android

Sleep As Android is an alarm app that uses phone sensors or any Android Gear to sense what stage of sleep you're in. Your phone is left on your bed or on your nightstand and collects data to learn what your usual sleep cycle is. It then uses this information to wake you up at a time that causes minimal damage to your sleep cycle. You can set a "Smart Period" for an alarm that tells the app to wake you up no earlier than (e.g.) 30 minutes before your alarm is set to go off.

Sleep As Android is $5.99 but a 7 day long trial can be extended one day by watching a 30 second long video. The app often goes on 50% sales every few weeks.

As a student who often feels tired in the morning and can never seem to get a good sleep schedule going, this app was incredibly helpful for me. The app is compatible on nearly all Android phones as it has a selection of usable sensors.

This app is absolutely 5 stars in my book, and I rarely see it on this subreddit. I highly recommend all of you to at least try it out for 7 days.

I started using Sleep for Android to track my sleep and as an alarm. It has a feature that requires you to solve a captcha to disable the alarm. Using it not only killed my over sleeping after a while. Just having to use my brain first thing when I wake I feel much more awake and alert. Its been a life changer!

edit This is the app

I've got one in my bathroom I have to scan to turn off my alarm in the morning. Check out Sleep as Android.

The app can be set as an admin, so you can't just close the app to bypass the alarm. Turning off the phone will only work if you leave it off for long enough, and at that point you're missing work. Easier to just head to the bathroom and scan the tag. By then, my Hue lights in the bathroom are on, I can pee and start my day!

Have you tried Daylio?

Personally I use Moodpath, but only because my doctor likes the reports they generate.

There are absolutely alarm apps that will do this. If you're using Android, check out Sleep As Android. It has some of the more creative ways to keep an alarm engaging for someone like me who can be very hard to wake up.

I use an alarm app that refuses to turn off until I hold the phone by an NFC tag, which I put in my shower stall. That almost always works— if I've dragged my ass to the shower, I might as well get in, and once I'm showering I wake up pretty reliably.

Edited to add: the app is "Sleep as Android"

> I find myself tapping an album and waiting like 3 seconds before it jankily opens in an animation.

The animation itself probably performed smoothly. The delay isn't a consequence of an intensive animation, that is just a delay for I/O, be it network or disk.

Try Morning Routine a clock app with many over-the-top animations which are not hard to handle for most phones.

Thanks for the fantastic post. I would like to add the system I use to get to bed and get up on time in case others struggle with that like I did.

I highly recommend the app Sleep As Android it took me years of tweaking before I was finally able to set up a system to beat my stupid brain and get out of bed with 1 alarm no matter what. I did it using that app.

Here's what I did to wake up for work without issue for years without fail:

• Learn about sleep intervals www.sleepyti.me and aim for them to avoid waking up during a REM cycle.
• Sleep As Android
• Phone plugged in across the room
• QR code scan required to deactivate (no snoozing! just get the fuck up)
• QR code I have to scan is in my bathroom
• Wake up 1hr 20min before I need to walk out the door
• Coffee before leaving if you find your eyes drooping on the road. These days I don't drink caffeine until after 9:30am if at all.

I applied the same technique to getting to bed on time, which is actually equally as important to getting up and establishing a good circadian rhythm:

• My alarm goes off at bedtime and being unable to turn the alarm off unless I go upstairs forces me to go up to my bathroom.

• Since I am up there anyway I usually decide to brush my teeth and take out my contacts and engage in the rest of my evening routine.

• Since I have a book to read sitting by my bed, I am usually not averse to just hopping in bed and achieving my bedtime goal.

If I want to get the right amount of sleep I have to do this at 10:00pm! which is insanely difficult for a person who used to like to stay up until at least 1:00am and damn the consequences!

The system works great for me. Hope it helps someone.

Edit: Fixed www.sleepyti.me link

Sleep as Android will do you one better and wake you up when it detects motion within a predefined period, hopefully waking you out of light sleep so you don't feel groggy.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep

There's an app called <em>Sleep as Android</em> (I don't believe theres an iOS version) that tracks your sleep patterns, can record audio that breaks a certain volume limit at night to see if you talk in your sleep or snore, and also has a Lucid Dream function which does exactly what you're talking about. After you've used it a few nights and it has picked up on your sleep patterns, it'll say a message like you're talking about. I haven't had success with it personally, but I've also never had a lucid dream at all. I would give it a shot, as it doesn't require you wear headphones or listen to white noise for a long time while you sleep.

I've heard good things about Sleep as Android if you're still interested (unless that's the app you were complaining about, lol).

There is a paid version of the app as well, but the free version should be fine. It also appears there is a "2 week trial" of the paid features.

P.S.: Google Play has a refund policy as well for paid apps, so you could sort of treat that a a "free trial" I guess.

I know that you were asking for a way to do this using Tasker, but if you don't find a solution, I use Sleep as Android everyday. I absolutely love it.

You don't have to, but you can also set your phone on your bed at night. The app will wake you up when you are in your lightest sleep phase (by monitoring the accelerometers).

For example: set alarm for 6AM. It'll wake you up between 5:15 (or whatever time period you choose) and 6AM. I have mine to only go of when I scan an NFC tag that's next to my shower in the bathroom.

Sleep as Android lets you do this. Long click on the alarm inside the app and you can select "Turn off next" or something (I have different language).

Also the notification that appears before the alarm go off has a option to turn it off too.

That's an app.

I use Sleep as Android myself, but there are plenty of other apps able to do similar things (math problems, scan captcha/NFC, move phone a certain distance...)

As a further tip for number 5, I recently started using an alarm app that forces you to perform an activity in order to shut off your alarm.

You can choose between solving some mathematic equations, shaking your phone X number of times, or scanning a barcode of something you have in your house.

Prevents you from just hitting that snooze button again and again and forces you to get thinking/moving.

Highly recommend if you struggle getting out of bed in the mornings like I do. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droom.sleepIfUCan&amp;hl=en_AU

Se me permites a sugestão, eu não tenho grandes problemas com os vizinhos mas tenho um pouco de tinido e já há uns anos que adormeço com ruído de fundo. O que faço é colocar headphones com som de chuva ou algo do género que me embala até adormecer.

A vantagem é que não só bloqueia o ruído de fundo como também me distrai dos meus problemas em alturas que ando mais stressado.

Há uns anos atrás andava tão stressado que não conseguia adormecer e desde que experimentei isso nunca mais tive grandes problemas em dormir.

Pontos extra para poderes ter vários sons de fundo diferentes. Quando me canso da chuva costumo colocar este ruído de fundo que me embala muito bem até adormecer.

Pontos extra-extra instala a app Sleep As Android que, para além de ter montes de sons para adormecer, tem o melhor despertador que já vi, faz tracking às horas e à qualidade de sono e ainda te dá dicas para dormir melhor quando deteta problemas no teu sono. 5/5!

One on your phone. For android, there's one called Sleep As Android that has a bunch of different "you gotta do this to shut off your alarm" options. Simple math, complex math, etc. I'm sure there are others, but this one has worked for me.

I use a custom QR code that I printed out and taped to the wall in my washroom. I cannot shut off my alarm without scanning that code, so by the time my alarm is off I'm standing in front of my bathroom sink with the lights on, and it's more hassle to sneak back to bed than to just get on with my day.

SleepAsAndroid

Non-blaring gradually rising alarm + smart period

Example: 7am concrete wakeup time, can set so around 6:55 begins slowly getting louder to the sounds of say crickets or seagulls, or ocean waves, or a storm, etc (natural sounds)

In addition can set so if between 6:30-7 it detects you are in light sleep will trigger the alarm early so that you don't get woken up during deep sleep

If you have Phillips hue you can get an app for Android called sleep as android not only does it do a sunrise alarm, it monitors your sleep and makes the alarm go off during light sleep, so you're not woken up feeling groggy. It really is a game changer, and much like writing down everything you eat makes you conscious of all the calories it saves sleep stats so you are more conscious about getting enough rest. The best thing is it's free - though I liked it so much o purchased the upgrades!

Daylio is what I started using now this year thanks to this post.

not exactly what you may be looking for but trusted contacts by Google could be useful. It would let her ping for help and let you find where she is.

Your phone should have a programmable "which days do you want the alarm for?" setting.

I use this app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&amp;hl=en

Too many settings to go into, loads of options for types of alarm "answer a maths question, fill in a dreamdiary" etc. It's rad.

There are apps that apply a filter over a video feed so you can check out various kind of colour blindness.
Really helps when colour coding things to make sure everyone can tell the difference.

The one I use at work is called Chromatic Vision Simulator. It's really useful if you need to worry about accessibility.

This looks a lot like Daylio. Maybe you could ask students to answer these questions in the app, as it allows for changing moods throughout the day (not just at the end).

Yup, as someone who had the exact same problem as OP and now usually gets up without snoozing at all, how I felt about my day made all the difference. If you're depressed and not looking forward to your day, of course laying unconscious in a cozy bed is going to be more appealing than getting up. But if you wake up, immediately start thinking about everything you're looking forward to, and have a morning routine you look forward to it's going to be relatively easy.

Also some other recommendations that have helped me:

• The Morning Routine Alarm is fantastic. You can set it to make you scan a specific bar code in another room (for me, my bathroom) so you have to get up to turn it off. Of course you can still go back to sleep, which I used to do anyways...
• Having a glass of water next to your bed and chugging it right away is very useful, even if by itself it probably won't fix everything.
• Set your intentions the night before. Imaging with as much detail as possible how you're going to get up right away the next day and start on your routine. A lot of the time I find my last thoughts at night have a huge affect on how my next day starts.
• Purposefully try to think of all the things you're grateful for and looking forward to that day RIGHT once you wake up. Doesn't have to be anything big. Seeing friends, going for a walk, drinking coffee etc.
• Find a routine you like. Meditation, some coffee and a good breakfast, a good walk or some exercise, showering/washing up, playing with a pet, make your bed and clean up a bit, put on a cozy robe right out of bed and get well dressed early on to feel put together etc. I've found however you begin your day tends to carry on through the rest of the day.

I'm thinking about starting a diary/journal. Any suggestions on an app? It looks like Journey and Diaro are the two best/popular ones but what are the pros and cons of both? Is it worth paying pro for these types of apps?

Hi, in the past I used an app called Alarmy which, like the Puzzle Alarm app you described, makes you do something before turning off the alarm (for example scan a QR Code or solve some math problems if that wakes you up more).

The way that Alarmy could help you is its "prevent phone turn off" feature. I have never really used it but it sounds like it could help you.

If your brain figures out another shortcut, uninstalling the application, Alarmy has a feature to prevent that too. You'll have to wake up.

I hope this will help you, and best of luck!

Edit: Here's the link for Alarmy

Get a really loud, obnoxious alarm and put it on the other side off the room. Make sure it's one that won't turn off unless you physically press a button, not one that turns itself off.

Another option is to get an app like Alarmy (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droom.sleepIfUCan&amp;hl=en) that forces you to do things tht will make you wake up before it'll allow you to turn it off.

woke up today with a sleep cycle alarm app and the blinds open and i feel super refreshed even though i got 1.5 less hours of sleep than yesterday. i'd recommend you guys try one too if you aren't already the one I used is sleep for android though they were a bunch to try from on both android and ios i think. also less than a week left till the semester starts sigh

Sleep as Android allows you to use Spotify as an alarm which I find works well to mix things up. It just resumes from the last song you were listening to, so if you use Spotify everyday you should get a good mix without any extra work.

My personal favorite is Morning Routine. Not only does it have the whole puzzle/math thing, but it can also demand that you scan a certain barcode to stop the alarm, and you can set it up to be as annoying as you require it to be.

I used to have it set to require me to scan the barcode of my toothpaste, wait fifteen minutes after the first alarm was disabled, then ask for a scan of the milk carton and, finally, the code beneath my mouse.

Also, please note that your liberal use of the word "literally" is cringe-inducing.

Hope it helps!

I doubted that it was only for Apple products and found several apps that do the same thing since it wouldn't be hard to replicate on Android.

Morning Routine - Alarm Clock

Early Bird Alarm - QR code

There's also some other clock apps that can use a Tasker plugin, so you can create Tasks to complete to turn off your clock.

I have an sleep tracking / alarm app that requires you to scan a QR code to shut off the alarm. I put the code in my bathroom so when I go to turn it off... well, I'm already up so I might as well shower. Take a cold shower when you wake up too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep

If you're looking to get on a normal schedule, try setting the alarm a few minutes earlier every day. First time at 2:00pm, then the next night at 1:45, then 1:30, etc until you get to the desired time. Avoid any food 3-4 hours before you go to bed. I slightly had this problem (going to bed at 1:00, wake up at 10) and now I'm on a constant schedule of waking up at 6:00-7:00 every day feeling good.

I used to wake up, feeling dopey as fuck, most of the time. Sometimes I'd be ok, but others I was dead to the world -- and I felt that way all day. As it turned out, the problem was one of timing -- I'd be getting approximately 6.5 hours of sleep per night, meaning I was always waking up in the deep sleep part of a sleep cycle.

I have an alarm app on my phone (Sleep as Android [1], specifically) that uses the microphone and accelerometer to guess when you're in the shallow part of a sleep cycle, and wake you up (up to 20ish mins earlier than your alarm, if need be) at the optimal time.

Dunno if it'll work for you, but it's worth checking out.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep

NAH

If your dad is just worried about you, maybe you could suggest Google's "Trusted Contacts" app (available for Android and iPhone) as a compromise?

It allows you to designate certain people as a "trusted contact", and you can share your location with them in an emergency with the press of a button. Plus, they can use the app to request your location. You can deny the request, but if you don't respond to the request after a certain number of minutes (configureable in the app) your location gets automatically shared. So if there's some sort of disaster and you can't use your phone, your parents can still find out your location (or last known location if the phone is dead or damaged) without having to have "always-on" sharing enabled.

Sleep as Android for sleep tracking.

there's Samsung Health but I'm not sure how does it compare to Google Fit since I don't use either of them, and I don't even know if Sleep as Android is compatible with any of them, heh.

The one I use is Sleep as Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep), but I have a feeling it might be on iOS too and just called Sleep.

It works fine, and has lots of settings to play around with (length of flexible wake up periods, increasing alarm volumes).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&amp;hl=en_US

Its got captchas to turn off your alarm, I do the "multi captcha" with math problems and I have to shake my phone for like a minute or so...you can adjust the difficulty too. For a bit there I just got better at sleep math and would fall back asleep. If you set it on medium or hard though, it'll wake you up...you might hate your phone for the first 20 min you are awake, but it works.

Try Sleep as Android, within the tons of functions, you can set an alarm to notify you when it's the best time to go to sleep.

well. good to know you can even safeword unconciously! Not a bad thing really. yeah you could use a second safe word... but like you said that is problematic. Can i suggest a longer term solution?

Have him wake you up anyhow. even if you safeword or tap out, have him go ahead and wake you up gently.

it sounds like your body is in sleep mode.. and your body is uncocously trying to stay asleep. I'm guessing you hit your snooze a fair amount as well?

by waking you up anyhow... your going to teach your body that "safewording" doesn't let you go back to sleep... in fact it leads to you being awakened fully anyhow. be very thoughtful about this, since there could be grumpy moments. but the key here is to wake up, sit-up, talk for a moment about how you safeworded, and it is ok, you will just need to try again. the kind of conversation you can't sleeptalk your way through. lol.

Another thought. there are "sleep" timer apps that try to gently wake you up by monitoring your movement in bed. they try to guess where you are in your sleep cycle and wake you gently. this is the one i've used for this : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep

basically the way we do it is... let the app wake us up "gently" then I could let my partner start to snooze off again and then intiate sex. this way i know she isn't in a deep sleep... its worked for us. since its a distincitve wake-up that it uses that is diffrent then the usual alarm, it signals to her that I am going to be initiating something in the net few minutes. we don't do it often, but when we do, when the gentle alarm sounds she will roll on her side and curl up so i can get the access i need to start things off, all while stil asleep.

I use sleep as Android and have a QR code in the bathroom so to stop the alarm I have to scan that QR code. And when you are inches away from the shower you just can't get back to bed.

Here's one that sort of fits your description. It's coincidentally also called Morning Routine.

You can set the usual alarms on it that can be disabled in different ways (barcode,button,etc.) and you can also chain together a series of tasks with alarms for each one. Seems like the perfect fit for you, no?

P.S. I'm not affiliated with the app, I just like how it looks and functions. :)

Or use an app like this, it has done wonders for me

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droom.sleepIfUCan&amp;hl=en

To turn it off you'd have to scan a bar-code or take a specific picture which requires you to get up. Also has an option to prevent you from turning off the phone.

I use Sleep as Android. It's got a lot of features including different kinds of wake up tests and gets updated frequently. The pro version is also discounted atm

I was wondering the same so I did some sleep tracking with a smartphone, time sleeping per day averaged to same number of hours (over few day window) with weird precision, regardless of taking naps or not, sleeping earlier or later etc.

At least for my N=1 experiment with subject being me, the answer is definitely yes.

That doesn't guarantee it will be the same for anybody else.

Timely App

Sleep as Android if you are on Android is also quite good. (Although I stopped using it since I have to use a dock to charge my phone)

I'm terrible at staying awake in the morning and doing even half of what I need to do, so I've been working on a system to help me!

The key is using ALARMY to set multiple alarms, which are turned off only when I am where I need to be. plus you can disable app uninstall and powering off while the alarm's active!!! (android only)

Here's an overview of the system:

• GRADUAL WAKE UP : I set an outlet timer to turn on my bedside lamp 15 minutes before I get up (I am light sensitive and my bedroom has no natural light, ymmv). I also set the radio to turn on about 15 minutes before I get up.
• Alarmy goes off, and I set it to take a picture of something IN THE KITCHEN, so I HAVE to leave my bedroom. I set it to take a picture of my french press so I HAVE to get it out to turn off the alarm!
• I continue through my morning based on the alarms, and the photos they need to turn the alarm off.
• e.g. at 6:30AM alarmy wants pic of my toilet -> I go to bathroom and brush teeth, wash face. At 6:45 AM alarmy wants pic of my shelf -> I go to my room and get dressed
• Clothes are set up night before. I even put a halloween sized chocolate underneath my clothes just so I have some gratification :'/

The get-out-of-bed alarm is more obnoxious, but I have set the routine-reminder alarms to be gentler sounding :) this was my first morning where I combined all of these and it went really well and I am happy :)

How in the world is Sleep as Android not on this list? I've been using it for a few years now and it's worth every cent. Love being able to track how much and how well I'm sleeping. I also make use of an NFC tag to dismiss my alarm.

I use an app on android called 'alarmy' there are options to switch the alarm off such as answer maths questions or shake your phone x times. There is no other way to switch the alarm off not even switching your phone off. Try this link

What kind of phone or app requires you to enter a user specified password to turn the alarm off? The app I'm familiar with, Sleep as Android gives you options like math or a dream diary, but not a PIN or password. Though NFC or QR codes are options.

That's the reason I use a sleep cicle app on my phone. I am still surprised how good it works. :)

€: Am using sleep as android

It has a bunch of optional features, so it doesn't fit your "simple" requirement but I've been using this app for about 6-7 years now.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep

Download the app called alarmy, it's loud as fuck and wont let you dismiss it until you answer math questions and will even prevent you from turning off your phone

Edit: Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droom.sleepIfUCan&amp;hl=en_CA

Or use Alarmy (Android | iOS), u can set it up so you HAVE to solve math problems, shake your phone, or even take a picture of somewhere around the house to take the alarm off.

> Sleep for Android

I think you mean Sleep <strong>as</strong> Android. This is an awesome app. It can tie into wearable devices to track sleep and also for alarms. This way I get a vibration on my watch. If I don't respond to the vibration, then it will start an audible alarm that slowly increases in volume. This makes for a peaceful wake up in the morning and a stealthy alarm during the day.

I am looking for diary/journal app which can work both on PC and my phone. Bonus features are security codes (obviously) and historical statistics/trends. Trends can be for anything, like location of entry, time, mood etc.

I am currently using Journey but they don't seem to have an offering for statistics. I haven't tried their premium features which offer a 'look back' option but they don't explicitly mention the sort of look up I want.

Try Alarmy. Its free on android. Set your alarm to be shut off only with a bar code in your bathroom, or your lawn and you'll always wake up on time.

If you have an android phone and are interested in this go download Sleep as Android. Tracks your sleep and wakes you up during light sleep, along with a bunch of other stuff.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep

So they take it out of Google+ but split it across Google Maps, Contacts and Trusted Contacts.

I guess we'll go full circle and Hangouts will get it later.

• Trusted Contacts (It's from Google)

• Location sharing feature of Google Maps

• Apps like Life 360

Edit: Links

I used to feel that pain. Here's what I do after trying a lot of stuff:

• Learn about sleep intervals Sleepti.me and aim for them to avoid waking up during a REM cycle.
• Sleep As Android
• Phone plugged in across the room
• QR code scan required to deactivate (no snoozing! just get the fuck up)
• QR code I have to scan is in my bathroom
• Wake up 1hr 20min before I need to walk out the door
• Coffee before leaving if you find your eyes drooping on the road. If not my recent delve into when to drink coffee says around 9:30am.

Using this system gets me up without snoozing till the absolute last fucking minute every fucking day (seriously how did I live that way so long?! This is so much better), which gives me way more time to wake up and do activities before I depart.

I started the cup of coffee before my commute a year or 2 back because my eyes would be drooping on the road. Coffee gave me that extra kick I needed back then. I no longer need the pre-work cup, but it did help back then.