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Inability to select specific wind-down exercises in meditation app

💚 healthproduct problem7 reports ●●●●● severity 2/5

A long-term meditation app user reports that the app's interface has become overly complex and lacks a feature to consistently select preferred wind-down exercises before sleep casts, forcing them to use randomized content.

Who's affected: A long-term subscriber of a meditation app who uses sleep casts daily.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A 'Favorites' or 'Pinned' feature for specific wind-down exercises within the sleep cast player.
  2. A simplified 'Classic Mode' UI toggle for users who find the current app layout too complex.
  3. A playlist builder tool that allows users to sequence a specific wind-down exercise with a sleep cast.
  4. A 'Shuffle' button that randomly selects a meditation session based on user-defined duration preferences.
  5. A 'Daily Routine' feature that automatically queues a new, curated meditation session each day.
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Real voices

“I wish the sleep casts had a way to pick the wind down exercises. Currently there is no way to consistently get the same one”

Source: App Store review: headspace

“A feature that randomly selects a session would reduce decision fatigue.”

Source: App Store review: headspace

“it feels like there is no new meditation content and the daily meditations are just repeating now”

Source: App Store review: headspace

“the timer no longer remembers the time you previously set and just defaults to an hour”

Source: App Store review: calm

“Very hard to find specific meditations. Can’t go back to find older meditations.”

Source: App Store review: headspace

“Every meditation is the same except the speech in the beginning”

Source: App Store review: headspace

“It’s really great like I love the sleepcasts, but otherwise….i don’t know”

Source: App Store review: headspace

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