Review: Samsung Galaxy Fit2 – a passive health and activity tracker
The Galaxy Fit2 is frustrating to use, but is luckily meant to be worn passively to track your health metrics (continuous heart rate, step counter, and sleep).
Sleep
Sleep trackers and other technology aiming to improve both your sleep and bedtime habits.
Overriding Bedtime mode with priority alerts
Is Bedtime mode on Android using Do Not Disturb mode to silence alerts and notifications? That’s unclear, if you’ve got the Samsung Digital Wellbeing app.
How to auto-lock your computer on a schedule (e.g. at bedtime)
Automatically lock your computer screen at certain hours (such as your break or bedtime.) Instructions for Mac, Windows, and Linux computers.
Unobtrusive sleep tracking app for Android
Sleep Debt Tracker is a simple Google Fit-compatible Android app that assumes you’re sleeping in the hours when you don’t use your phone at night.
Use Xiaomi Mi Band as a continuous heart rate monitor with Google Fit
How to sync your continuous heart rate monitoring data collected by the Xiaomi Mi Band 4 or 3 fitness tracker to the Google Fit app.
Postmortem re-review of the Sense sleep monitoring system
The Sense sleep monitoring system from Hello Inc. was discontinued and its cloud services put to sleep. Don’t buy cloud-connected products, kids!
Devices that speak in the night
I don’t want my Roomba to shout “Press CLEAN to restart!” to itself in the middle of the night, but here we are.
Sense sleep tracking system review
I tried out the new Sense sleep monitoring system and its kind-of-stupid “smart” alarm clock. It’s an interesting product, but not a “must-have.”