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Beginner's Guide to SleepyHead

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Basic SleepyHead Organization
When first learning how to use SleepyHead, it helps to have a basic understanding of the organization of each of the data views are available in SleepyHead.<br />
<big>==Basic Parts of the SleepyHead Window in All Views</big>==
When you start SleepyHead and select the profile you wish to use, SleepyHead opens up the Statistics page, which is as good of a place to start as anywhere else for looking at the overall organization. Here's a marked up copy of what you see on a Mac:
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The '''The Main Menu''' on Windows is at the top of the SleepyHead window (like the Main Menu for any other application). It's a pretty standard main menu and is the same in both Windows and Mac versions.
The '''The Navigation Bar''' is always visible and it's always in the middle of the top part of the window on a Mac, and below the Main Menu on the left in Windows. Clicking each button on this Navigation changes the data. Each of the data views will be examined in more detail further down in this article.
The '''The Right Sidebar''' duplicates the Navigation bar AND adds an Import icon that can be used to start the import data process talked about in [http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php?title=Beginner%27s_Guide_to_SleepyHead#Running_SleepyHead_for_the_first_time 2. Running SleepyHead for the first time]. The Right Sidebar usually takes up a lot of real estate on a laptop computer. You can turn the Right Sidebar off by pressing the F8 button on the keyboard. (On a Mac you may have to use Shift-F8 depending on how you have your function keys set up.)
<big>===The Main Menu---a closer look</big>===<br />
The Main Menu has four submenus:<br />
 
* File
* View* Data* Help
On the Mac, the '''SleepyHead''' menu is a standard "Application" menu with the standard things, including "Preferences" and "Quit SleepyHead". Windows applications don't have this "Application" menu.
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===The File menu'''===<br />
The File menu looks like this on a Mac:<br />
For a new SleepyHead user, the most important options on this menu are the "Import Data" and "Edit Profile". In Windows, add "Preferences" to that list. For now you can ignore the other options under the '''File''' menu.<br />
===The View menu'''===
The '''View''' menu looks like this on both a Mac and a Windows machine:
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It's important to keep "Link Graph Groups" checked(Mac only). As long as that's checked, when you zoom in on one of the daily graphs, all the daily graphs will zoom in the same amount. That's very useful when you need to look at more than one graph to see what's going on.
Unchecking "Right Sidebar (F8)" will make the Right Sidebar disappear, which gives the graphs in the Daily View more room.
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 '''===The Data menu'''===
The '''Data''' menu looks like this on a Mac:
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'''==Parts of the Daily data window'''==
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The window has four major parts:
* The calendar in the upper left corner
* The Left side bar below the calendar with numerical data* The detailed daily graphs in the middle of the window* The Right Sidebar, which can be turned off in order to give the graphs more horizontal room.
We'll look at each of these parts except for the Right Sidebar in a bit more detail.
'''===The Calendar'''===
The calendar allows you to both identify what day's data you're looking at:<br />
Pressing the upward facing arrow in the bubble with the the date in it will hide the calendar and change that triangle to a downward facing triangle. Clicking the downward facing triangle will unhide the calendar. Hiding the calendar is useful if you want more room for the Left Sidebar data.
'''===The Left Sidebar'''===
The Left Sidebar has both ''summary data'' and ''statistical data'' for the given date. Typically you need to scroll down to see all the data.
Here's a picture showing the top part of the Left Sidebar:<br />
'''===The daily detailed graphs'''===The daily detailed graphs lie in the middle of the Daily data window. These are the graphs that the experienced forum members keep referring to when they ask for more specific information about what your graphs look like.<br />
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