Sleepvue helps people with insomnia better understand their sleep, find patterns, and make day‑to‑day changes that improve how they feel. By turning a sleep diary into a powerful, searchable record, Sleepvue aims to help you uncover root causes and measure what actually works—so you can improve your daytime functioning.
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Hi, I'm Chris. I've had insomnia since I was a teenager. For years I avoided taking notes about my sleep because I worried it would make me even more anxious about getting to bed. Wearables like Fitbit did allow me to do some sleep tracking, but they often missed awakenings or said I was awake when I was not, and they couldn't capture how I felt during the day—what I actually care about.
I started keeping a detailed sleep diary in 2021 and began very seriously tracking my sleep and going as far as using a security camera and other apps to track how much I snored. Instead of making me more nervous, it reduced my anxiety. I finally had a baseline to work with: what happens when I take certain meds or none at all, how much I typically sleep, and which habits help or hurt.
The diary also gave me the confidence that there was something wrong with how I felt and the evidence I needed to redo a sleep study (it's daunting to talk about sleep problems with your health provider), where I was diagnosed with almost severe sleep apnea on my back. While insomnia and daytime sleepiness are a lifelong struggle and are rarely caused by a single factor, I've found ways to improve my functioning and make my life more liveable:
A sleep diary isn't going to solves all of your problems, but gathering information is the first step to making progress and it's helped me more than I expected. And I hope it can help you as much as it has helped me.