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Set up Oura for Sleep Analysis in 10 minutes

Configure the Oura ring and app to move beyond a simple score and read your raw sleep and recovery data.

An Oura ring produces daily Sleep and Readiness scores, but these numbers alone offer little actionable information. A better workflow is to use the ring as a personal ledger, mapping specific lifestyle inputs to objective outputs in your sleep data. This setup shows you how to read the underlying data directly.

Before you start

• An Oura Ring and charger
• An active Oura account and paired phone
• 1-2 weeks of consistent wear for calibration

The steps

1. 01

   Calibrate Your Baseline

   Wear the ring consistently for at least 14 nights. This initial period allows the app to learn your personal sleep and activity patterns, establishing a stable baseline against which all future data will be compared.

2. 02

   Tag Your Daily Inputs

   Use the "Add a Tag" feature on the home screen each day. Tag everything from caffeine intake and late meals to specific stressors or supplements to build a personal ledger of how behaviors affect your sleep metrics.

3. 03

   Read Contributors, Not Scores

   Ignore the top-level Sleep and Readiness scores. Instead, tap into the Sleep view and analyze the "Sleep Contributors"—looking for patterns in your deep sleep, REM sleep, and resting heart rate curves relative to the tags you added.

4. 04

   Isolate One Variable in Trends

   Use the Trends view (top-left menu) to track a single metric against one tagged behavior. Correlate "Deep Sleep" with the "Meditation" tag, for example, to see if your practice has a measurable effect over a 30-day period.

5. 05

   Set Your Alert Thresholds

   In Settings > Notifications, disable score notifications. Instead, enable alerts for significant changes in body temperature or heart rate variability, turning the ring into a specific detection tool rather than a general scorekeeper.