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Help me get some sleep :(

muede

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Hi everyone,

I work three jobs with varying schedules. Sometimes I have to get up very early, and sometimes I need to sleep in until the afternoon. I'm sick of my phone waking me up or not waking me up because I can't get the right combination of apps.

I enter all of my schedules into Google Calendar. Right now I have several smart actions for the phone to silence at specific times, and when I'm busy on the calendar (i.e., when I'm at work). I use Calendar Snooze as my wake-up alarm and I have to manually set notifications for every calendar event every day, so that I'll wake up at the right time. That's getting old fast. So is waking up at 3 am because I got a junk email. But if I do something that silences notifications, it also silences Calendar Snooze, and then I don't have an alarm and don't wake up!

I've tried so many things and was wondering if anyone has any ideas for me. Here's what I want my phone to do, ideally:

- silence my ringtone and text messages during certain times (sleeping time) - except for important people (work numbers)
(If there's a way to set it to silent until a specific time before a calendar event, for example an hour before, [unless there are no events scheduled for that day, in that case, have it turn on at a specific time] that's even better)

- have phone calls and text messages vibrate and silent during work times. Bonus: have a more "urgent" vibrate pattern for specific important numbers (like if another job calls when I'm working somewhere else). Super bonus: if it vibrated a "reminder vibrate" for those calls after a certain amount of time of not checking them.

- have reminder notifications and sounds of missed calls from important people (work) when there's not an event on the calendar (when I'm not at work)

- have email notifications vibrate but silenced always (including when I'm at work), unless it's during sleep time (or a specific time before a calendar event), when I want them silenced and not vibrate

- have my phone automatically set an alarm to wake me up a certain amount of time before a calendar event (excluding all day events) and to remind/notify me again 25 minutes before the event so I know when I need to leave my house to get to work on time

- have a snooze feature for the calendar-based alarm


Know of anything? Help please. I would totally pay for an app that had these features!! Thank you.
 
You might try something like Tasker or Setting Profiles (both on the market ... eh, Play Store.) Tasker has a pretty steep learning curve, but is very flexible. Setting Profiles is easy to use, but I'm not sure it will get as intricate as you want. It may, I may be wrong. I personally use Setting Profiles and it does all I want it to do, but my schedule is a little less complicated than yours.

Good Luck,
BigRedGonzo
 
I think Tasker will probably meet most (if not all) of your requirements.
I use it to silence calls and notifications except those from favourite contacts overnight and to switch to vibrate mode during meetings automatically (triggered by calendar events). I've seen a lot of discussion around shift patterns on the Tasker Google Group as well.

Have a search through https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!forum/tasker and try the trial version out (7 day trial from the developer's website).

*EDIT* sorry for the mobile link but you get the idea.
 
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