Clean data would be useless data
We are building an app for people who forget things. Who take the ring off to do the washing up and find it three days later. Who wear the watch faithfully for two weeks and then get bored. Who go on holiday and stop logging entirely. If everyone testing this behaves impeccably, we will build something that works beautifully for impeccable people and falls over for everyone else — including, eventually, for you, once the novelty wears off. The messy week is the valuable week.A gap is data. When the app shows a blank night, that is not a failure on
your part and not something to apologise for. It is one of the specific things
we are here to measure: how often gaps happen, what causes them, and whether our
calculations behave sensibly when they do.
Specifically, please do not
- Wear a device more than you naturally would
- Go back and fill in logs from memory to make a week look complete
- Delay something so it lands on a “better” day
- Avoid a feature because you think you might break it
- Change your sleep or exercise habits because you know they are being recorded
Things that are genuinely fine
- Forgetting the app exists for a week
- Never using half the logging options
- Wearing nothing at all for a stretch
- Logging one glass of water on a day you drank six
- Deciding you dislike a screen and never opening it again