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Martin Hähnel

I Renewed My Oura Membership Subscription

To get an idea about the differences and similarities in sleep tracking I wear both my watch and my ring at night and can say that for all practical purposes the differences between wearing a watch, a ring, or using an app listening to me sleep via microphone are pretty negligible, it seems.

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It doesn't help that what I consider a normal weekend morning in which I wake up - after having gone to bed at 3 or 4 in the night - at 8 or 9 to take out the dog and give it food just to sleep for four more hours, seems to be impossible for Autosleep to wrap its circuits around. Sleep trackers in general have a hard time accommodating this pattern. The best is Oura as long as I don't open the app and let the ring sync. — Yearly Theme 2024 Recap - Year Of Sleep

This is what I wrote late last year when recaping my "Year Of Sleep". I have now renewed my relatively costly Oura subscription because I was not happy with the level of tracking quality from my Apple Watch when it comes to fragmented sleep in particular.

I would not recommend doing this, if you are not in the same situation as me:

All in all my ridiculous sleep setup is as follows: