Sleep doctors have a name for people whose sleep got worse while they tried to perfect a tracker score: orthosomnia, roughly "correct sleep". The name comes from a report on three patients. In each, worry about the numbers had become part of the problem. Evidence: worth trying
Three people is a story, not a study. But if the morning score decides your mood for the day, try a week without it.
If the data worries you, take the worry to a doctor, not to the app.
Same theme: The rhythm
The rhythm
Same wake-up time, every day
Pick a wake-up time and keep it, weekends within an hour. Bad night or not.
no timeEvidence: decent
The rhythm
The lie-in doesn't pay the debt back
Set this weekend's alarm no more than an hour after your weekday one. Get the missing sleep on ordinary nights, not on Saturday morning.
no timeEvidence: decent