sandor

The NSA is a spy organization. 
Of course they aren't interested in things that make their job more difficult.

Japhey said:

Before everyone freaks out, what follows is an honest question. I’m not trolling anyone, and I’m not trying to sound sarcastic. But...

Why is everybody so obsessed with sleep tracking? It just seems like another friggin thing to have to deal with. I mean, how EXACTLY does it make anyone’s life better? I can understand the CPAP guy getting legitimate use of the data, but what incites does it actually provide to improve everybody else’s sleep? I’ve tried several in the past, both on my watch and my iPhone, and have found them to be mostly pointless. Also, I’ve almost pulled the trigger 3 or 4 times on the Beddit, but those previous experiences caused me to hesitate. Now I’m glad I did.

So, being completely upfront about my ignorance on this subject, can someone tell me what the big deal is?

The Zeo was the absolute best - it monitored your sleep cycles via its forehead monitor, you set your wake up time, and it would wake you at the point you would be the most alert, within about a 45 minute window (if i remember correctly) 

Zeo worked really well, and for someone like myself who rarely feels like they get a "good night's sleep" it helped me quite a bit in waking up at a time that gave me the best start to my day.

Analysis also helped me understand that my deep sleep times were consistenly quite short until the 3rd, 4th and 5th cycles of the night.
As someone who over a lifetime needed 8+ hours of sleep to feel rested, it gave me more understanding why.

My current Garmin watch monitors sleep, but basically just sleep time based on movement, times woken up (based on movement) and has a normal alarm clock. My Basis tried to do better in terms of targeted wake up (it had skin temperature & moisture sensors as well as heart rate & motion) and had a targeted alarm as well - it was in between, but wrist was definitely less obtrusive than forehead.

Zeo is still the absolute best consumer sleep tracker i have ever used.

They were just a number of years too early to be bought up & built into a multi function device.

philboogie said:

sandor said:

Soli said:

Having to press to 4 and four buttons for a screenshot is excessive when you're using this feature often. I suggest changing it to Command-3 and Command-4 for saving the desktop and window, respectively, to the desktop. It's an easy edit in Sys Prefs » Keyboard pane » Shortcuts tab.

but that is how i switch tabs in safari (command+1 or 2 or 3 or 4 etc)

I use Cmd-Shift-] and Cmd-Shift-[ for that

That is just forward & back - the numbers will go straight to that specific tab.

We run a web-based PACS & i am constantly switching between 1 of 8 tabs, so this makes dead simple - My 8 pages load in separate tabs every morning, i switch back & forth between the tabs all day, rinse repeat for the past 5 years.