Calm Atlas
Anxiety Toolkit

Category · Sleep & Recovery

Five sleep & recovery instruments.

Sleep is the cheapest anxiolytic we know of — and the easiest to break. These five tools map your debt, track your caffeine decay, build a wind-down that fits your life, and align your light exposure. Together they replace the "tips" with arithmetic.

On this page
  1. Sleep Debt Visualizer
  2. Caffeine Half-Life Tracker
  3. Wind-Down Routine Builder
  4. Sleep Window Calculator
  5. Light Exposure Plan
Tool 01 · For chronic low sleep

Sleep Debt Visualizer

Enter your actual sleep for the last 14 nights plus your target (most adults need 7.5–9 h). The chart shows cumulative debt, recovery curve, and the bedtime you'd need tonight to halve the deficit in one week. Standard trackers show only last night; debt is a multi-day phenomenon.

Tool 02 · For evening wiredness

Caffeine Half-Life Tracker

Log each dose and the time. The decay curve updates live, plus a sleep-risk score for the next 8 hours based on residual caffeine relative to a typical sleep-disrupting threshold (≈ 50 mg in the bloodstream). Most apps only show intake — this shows the half-life implications in your actual day.

Tool 03 · Build your evening

Wind-Down Routine Builder

A 90-minute personalised wind-down, block by block, that ends at your chosen bedtime. Pick from 18 evidence-based activities (or add your own). The tool checks for contradictions — bright light then sleep, late caffeine, late workouts — and surfaces them.

Tap to add activities (re-order after by dragging):
Your 90-min routine
    Tool 04 · Circadian alignment

    Sleep Window Calculator

    Most adults sleep best in a window aligned to their chronotype and core body temperature minimum (CBTmin). Enter your habitual wake time and average sleep onset, and the tool derives a 9.5-hour sleep window centred on your CBTmin, plus a 2-week ramp plan if your current window is off by more than 45 minutes.

    Tool 05 · Circadian alignment

    Light Exposure Plan

    Light is the most powerful zeitgeber — morning light advances the clock, evening light delays it. This tool builds a day-long plan across four anchor windows: morning, midday, afternoon, evening. Each window has a recommended lux, duration, and source — and a "swap" if you live somewhere cloudy.

    Where to go next: sleep tools pair with 4-7-8 Sleep Breath for the wind-down itself, and with Worry Time Scheduler for offloading bedtime rumination.

    Sleep-tool questions

    Do these replace CBT-I? +

    No. CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia) is the gold-standard, non-drug treatment for insomnia disorder. These tools translate some of its components — stimulus control, sleep scheduling, wind-down — for self-guided use. They are not a substitute when insomnia is the primary problem.

    My caffeine threshold seems much lower. +

    That's common and valid. Lower the disruption threshold in the tool to 30 mg or 20 mg — the curve is the same, just the comparison line moves. The point is to find the dose that lets you sleep, not to defend a population average.

    My schedule is too irregular. +

    Then anchor to the most consistent part of your day (a wake time or a first meal). The other end can move ± 90 min and still preserve the circadian signal. Don't try to lock both ends if you can't.