Throughout this past semester, I was continually impressed by the benefits of powernapping. However, unfortunately, I’m one of those people who shut off their alarms and go back to sleep all the time. So, my 20-minute powernaps became full nights’ rests. Normally, I wouldn’t mind that, but it made things very difficult when I had a major assignment due the next day.
So, I present icsy:
http://jwcxz.com/projects/icsy
icsy (I Can’t Sleep Yet) helps to prevent you from falling back asleep after waking you up by asking you some simple math questions to get your mind going again. You can customize all sorts of features including the alarm time, snooze time, number of questions, and audio file or alarm command.
It’s very easy to use. Just invoke icsy -h for instructions.
Clever! Sounds very useful, I’ll have to try it out =)