Tap the sleep figure on Today.
The score at the top
One number for last night. Which score you see depends on your source and
your settings — it may be your device’s own (Oura’s or Polar’s), or the
Workbench’s own calculation.
The app labels which. That matters: two published methods can look at one night
and disagree by ten points, and neither is wrong.
The hypnogram
The coloured chart of your night, showing which stage you were in at each point.
A night that looks fragmented is usually normal. Waking briefly several times is
ordinary human sleep, not a fault in you or in the device.
The metrics beneath
Tap any of these for a sheet explaining it and where it came from.
- Time in bed and total sleep — the second is always less
- Efficiency — how much of your time in bed was asleep, typically 85%+
- Time to sleep — how long you took to drop off. Always a dash on Apple
Watch, because Apple does not provide it
- Awake time — total time awake after first falling asleep
- Resting heart rate and HRV for the night
- Respiratory rate, and body temperature as a deviation from your own
baseline
The Movements strip
Only if your source provides it, which currently means Oura only. It shows
how much you moved through the night.
If you use another device, the strip is absent rather than empty — we do not
draw a chart of data nobody gave us.
SHI
Further down, if you have enough history: your Sleep Health Index — a
four-week view rather than one night.
It needs 14 usable nights inside a 28-night window. Until then it shows
progress rather than a score, which is deliberate: an index built on five nights
would be a number pretending to be a measurement.
Editing your sleep times
If the app got your night wrong — you were reading, not sleeping; you took the
watch off at 6am but got up at 7 — you can correct it.
The correction is yours, reversible, and stored separately from what the device
reported. We keep both: what your device said, and what you say actually
happened. The difference between them is exactly what we need to see, and
one of the more interesting things you can give us.
Naps
Shown if your source records them. Never scored — they do not affect your
sleep score or SHI. Scoring naps properly is deferred rather than done badly.
Polar users will never see naps at all; Polar does not report
them.
Ask Eir
The circular button gives a plain-language reading of the night. See Ask
Eir.