About A Better Life
Small, quiet tools for sleep, evenings, and the parts of the day that are easier to lose than to keep.
Why this site exists
Some nights, sleep just won't come. The alarm is set early, but the phone keeps pulling you back, and an hour slips away before you finally put it down. This site was built by someone who has had too many of those nights — and kept looking for a gentler way back.
A small place to start
There is no shortage of advice about sleep and routines. Long articles, heavy apps, dashboards you have to learn. Most nights, what you actually need is one small, honest answer — a bedtime that lines up with your morning, or a wind-down that fits the time you still have. That is all this site tries to do.
Not about being perfect
A routine isn't something you have to nail every night. Half of it is fine. Skipping a day is fine. What matters is that it's still here when you come back. This is meant to be a place that doesn't scold.
Quiet by design
Whatever you type in stays in your browser. No account, no submit button, nothing sent over the internet or shared with anyone. Close the tab, open it again next month, and it works the same way. That lightness is something we want to protect.
What's ahead
We're starting with sleep and evenings. As the basics settle, we'll add small tools for mornings, weekly reset, and focus — not to reinvent your day, but to help it land a little softer.
Who makes this
A Better Life is planned, written and built by one person, Naoki.M. I hold no medical or sleep-science credentials. I read the public health guidelines, turn the arithmetic into tools, use those tools myself, and write from there — as someone who has had a lot of bad nights. The articles are not medically reviewed by a physician or a specialist, and they are not dressed up to look as if they were. The basis for every number and recommendation is chosen by the standards below and listed in the sources at the end of each article.
How the information is made
Sources are used in this order. ・Public health bodies (CDC, NIH, AASM, Japan's Ministry of Health) ・Established medical institutions ・Peer-reviewed review papers ・Individual studies, only where needed Every figure is checked against a source. The main ones are listed on the terms page. When the evidence is thin, the article says so. Where studies disagree, where a claim comes only from the person who invented the method, or where something spread as an anecdote, it is written up as limited evidence and nothing is promised. Articles are re-read after publication and rewritten when a source is updated or the content stops matching reality. Each article header shows the publication date and the date it was last checked. None of this is medical advice. If sleep problems persist for weeks, or daytime sleepiness starts to interfere with your life, please talk to a professional.
Contact
Thoughts, bugs, requests — please send them to [email protected]. Every message gets read.