REQ Option to set delay each time & extend it if I'm still awake

[sanctimoniousape]

How long I feel it may take me to fall asleep will vary each time I lay down according to how awake I feel - especially since my nature is to fight sleep unless I'm completely exhausted.

Further, if I find I'm still too awake to sleep, then an option to add time to the countdown (or simply restart it with a simple button press) would be helpful for more accurate tracking.

This is my first time trying it, so I'm likely to have more thoughts in the future. Thanks for your time, attention, and work on this program!

[vmiklos]

Just to check, did you find the setting to automatically delay the start of your sleep?

See https://vmiklos.hu/plees-tracker/usage.html#dashboard

Would this be kind of a temporary override of that setting, just for the next sleep?

[sanctimoniousape]

I guess you'd call it temporary override.

Yes, I see the delay option, but it seems to me that works well only for people who live their life like clockwork, and so you can be pretty sure their body will be asleep by a certain time. I'm unfortunately not one of those people, as the time it takes me to fall asleep varies every time - particularly since my work schedule is highly varied. This fact makes tracking how much sleep I actually get so much more important, however - so I could really use this app.

What I'm thinking might make this a more accurate tracker is if after your existing delay timer runs out, you prompt the user with "are you still awake?" (probably with a quiet sound that someone awake would notice and respond to, but not loud enough to wake someone), then wait for the timer to run out again (so you can give them time to get back to their phone if they just went to the bathroom, or something else happens to distract them from seeing the prompt right away). If they don't answer by the time the delay runs out again, then you can start tracking from when you first prompted them. Obviously, if they do answer it then they're still awake, and you don't start tracking, but restart the delay timer.

I hope that makes sense?

Thanks for taking the time to consider my request either way.

[vmiklos]

Yes, makes sense. So we could have a new setting that is off by default, but once it's on, every start would ask you what amount of delay you would like, just for this sleep.

Is this something you would be interested in looking at yourself?

[sanctimoniousape]

That would be a nice addition, but not quite what I was looking for. I'm just thinking that when the delay timer runs out, it prompts the user "are you still awake?" (with a quiet sound to get their attention if they still are, but not looking at the phone), and gives them time to respond. Your suggestion here of allowing them to select the amount of additional time to give might be a good thing to add to this prompt, but that's up to you.

[vmiklos]

Aha OK, that's a bit more complicated. Let's see if somebody is interested to add this.

[aleksejrs]

Maybe another button to move the start (with a confirmation) instead of stopping, deleting and restarting, would be better than potentially waking the user up.

[vmiklos]

That's an option, perhaps we could do something new when you long-push on the FloatingActionButton (start/stop), to keep the UI simple for existing users and then long-push can do the new custom action requested here.