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Sandman

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Calculate the optimal time to go to sleep based on wake up time, in order to complete as many full 90-minute sleep cycles as possible, with this handy, unobtrusive app. #Sleep cycle  #Sleep notification  #Sleep time  #Sleep  #Cycle  #Rest  

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Researchers have found that our sleep patterns are rather odd, consisting of 90-minute cycles during which we go through the various phases of sleep, from near wakefulness to deep REM sleep and back.

Sandman is a fairly simple application that aims to help you make the most of these sleep cycles. It can calculate the ideal time for you to go to bed based a set wake up time, so as to include the maximum number of full 90-minute sleep cycles.

This application is all about making the most of the time you spend in bed, and it does this by calculating how many 90-minute cycles you can go through based on your scheduled wake-up time.

Some health experts recommend that you sleep exactly 7.5, or even 9 hours, although many of us are accustomed to much less. In any case, it’s important to pack as many complete cycles as possible into your sleep schedule.

Sandman requires no installation, so you can start using it right away. Once you have set your desired wake up time, it will determine when you should go to sleep and provide you with several options.

Naturally, we don’t exactly fall asleep instantly, so the program displays the notifications 15 minutes before the actual sleeping time; this value can even be customized.

You can choose between the 12-hour and 24-hour time formats, as well as set the default wake up time that will be remembered after shutting down the application.

After setting everything up, you can minimize the main window and let the app run in the system tray. It displays notifications when needed, but it stays out of your way the rest of the time.

In a nutshell, Sandman is a simple but useful application that can help you make the most of the time you dedicate to sleeping. It is an Electron-based app, and therefore rather large, and the user interface is not particularly impressive, but it can ensure you make the most of each night of sleep.

What's new in Sandman 1.9.2:

  • Notifications will only occur at their time exactly, so if you hibernate your computer rather than shutting off you wont get hit with the rest notification as soon as you open your computer unless you opened it just when the notification should occur. This will still be a present bug though on Linux, it has to do with the way it handles waking up from hibernation as of now no fix for Linux will work.
  • While packaging application I was not ignoring files that are for the repository but the app does not need. By ignoring these files the uncompressed version of the application has shrunk by ~20mb
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Sandman 1.9.2

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  runs on:
Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows 8 32/64 bit
Windows 7 32/64 bit
  file size:
44.4 MB
  filename:
Sandman.Version.1.9.2.32.Bit.Windows.zip
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Sandman - The application lets you know when you should go to sleep based on your wake up timeSandman - You can switch between the standard and military time modes, as well as set the default wake up timeSandman - When it is time to go to sleep, the application displays a notification in the system tray areaSandman - screenshot #4
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