Sleep

How it works

The mechanics of this kit, plainly — what runs and when, where the data lands, and what you look at.

• Sleep sync runs every day · 7:30am and keeps the Your nights dashboard fresh. Every morning — reads a connected health account, if you have one, and redraws the board.
• Sunday read runs sundays · 8am and keeps the Your nights dashboard fresh. Sundays — one pattern seen in the week, and one small thing worth trying.
• What is captured lands in the Sleep log record, which lives at Data/Sleep Log in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Sleep target record, which lives at Data/Sleep Target in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• The Your nights dashboard reads from the record and shows, at a glance: night by night, hours asleep · last night, hours asleep · average night, hours · against your target, this week · usual bedtime · usual wake · nights at a glance · this week's pattern · every night.

The wiring, in one breath: Sleep capture writes to Sleep log · Sleep target setting writes to Sleep target · Sleep log shown by Your nights · Sleep target shown by Your nights · Your nights kept fresh by Sunday read · Sleep capture given to Vale · Sleep target setting given to Vale · Vale runs Sleep sync.

Getting the most from it

A kit earns its place when it changes what you look at and what you say, not when it is installed. This is the rhythm that makes it pay.

• Say how you slept in the morning, in passing — "about seven hours, up once" is plenty — or let a connected watch, ring or app sync it. Never round up or fill in a number you do not have; a blank is honest and Vale will not fill it either.
• Read the board on Sunday after the read, not after one night. The line is the story; the last night is one dip on it.
• Set a target only if a number genuinely means something to you. The "Against your target" figure is arithmetic, not a grade, and "No target" is a perfectly good state.
• Mention context in passing — travel, a late one, a rough week — so a dip on the line has its explanation beside it in your own words.
• Ask Vale for the usual bedtime and wake and how much they wander. Regularity is the honest signal here, and it is the one the board is built to show.
• If poor sleep is wearing you down for weeks, take the one line Vale will say about a GP seriously. The kit keeps a record; it does not treat anything.

Make it yours

Nothing here is fixed. The pieces are ordinary agents, routines, records and dashboards, so anything you know about shaping those applies. Retire whatever earns nothing.

Things people usually change first

Say any of these in chat, or edit them on the kit’s page in the app.

• The target, or removing it entirely.
• When the Sunday read arrives, or turning it off and just keeping the board.
• Whether the morning sync runs at all — it does nothing without a connected account, and can be paused either way.
• How much Vale says back when you mention a night — most people want a word, or nothing.

Your first run

Installing starts a short setup conversation — not a form. Answer roughly, correct later.

1. Installing ends with "Meet Vale" — a short conversation, not a form: last night, if you remember it, goes straight on the log; the number of hours that counts as a good night for you, or no target at all, which is a perfectly good answer and is never asked about again. It never asks why you sleep the way you do.
2. From then on there is nothing to open. Say "slept about seven hours, up twice" in any conversation and the night goes on the log; the board shows the line, the last night and the running average from the first night, and the usual bedtime and wake once a fortnight of nights is there.
3. Skip the conversation and the door quietly stays open: until the first night is on the log, the kit page, the board and Vale's chat keep the offer ready — and the Sunday read stays silent rather than reading an empty log.
4. If you have a connected health account, the morning Sleep sync pulls the nights it recorded (twelve months back on the first run) and fills only what you did not say yourself; if you have not, chat alone works exactly as well and it will not pester you to connect one.

Watch the first pass, then tell it what you would have done differently — that correction teaches it more than any setup could.

The essentials

Learning, preferences and run costs work the same in every kit — so they are covered once, in the Kits guide.

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