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  <title>Voke blog</title>
  <subtitle>How Voke works, guides, health explainers and what’s new, from the people building Voke.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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  <entry>
    <title>What’s new in Voke, early October</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/whats-new-october-2026</id>
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    <published>2026-10-07T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>A day view by the minute, activity and workouts in the Feed, charts you can scrub, more AI apps, and an app that opens on your data straight away.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How Voke keeps your health data private</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/how-voke-keeps-your-health-data-private</id>
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    <published>2026-10-06T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>What Voke encrypts, what its server can and can’t do, what happens when you share or use AI, and what deleting your account really deletes.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What “while inactive” means on a heart rate alert</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/what-while-inactive-means</id>
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    <published>2026-10-06T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>Voke flagged a workout as a high heart rate while inactive, so we changed how it decides you were still, and here’s what the alert means now.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Why we built Voke</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/why-we-built-voke</id>
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    <published>2026-10-06T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>Voke started because we wanted to see our own sleep and heart data clearly, and to share it with the people close to us.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Bot to your health data</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/connect-claude-chatgpt-or-grok-bot-to-your-health-data</id>
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    <published>2026-10-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>How to let the AI you already use read your Voke data, what it can and can’t see, and how to cut it off.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Moving from Google Health or Fitbit to Voke</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/moving-from-google-health-or-fitbit-to-voke</id>
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    <published>2026-10-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>What Voke brings over from your Google account, what the first sync looks like, and what it can’t do yet.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Sharing health data without oversharing</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/sharing-health-data-without-oversharing</id>
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    <published>2026-10-04T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>How Voke lets you share each kind of health data at its own level, circle by circle, and what happens when you change your mind.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How the morning summary is written</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/how-the-morning-summary-is-written</id>
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    <published>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>Our code picks the readings and works out your last two weeks, and an AI model only writes the sentence and the suggestions.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How Voke counts a night once when two sources record it</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/how-voke-counts-a-night-once</id>
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    <published>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>When an Apple Watch and a Fitbit both record the same sleep, Voke keeps one of them, and here’s how it chooses and how it tells a nap from the night.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Resting heart rate: what changes it day to day</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/resting-heart-rate-what-changes-it-day-to-day</id>
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    <published>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>Your resting heart rate moves a few beats from day to day with sleep, alcohol, exercise, stress, heat, your cycle and illness, and the trend over a week says more than any one morning.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>What is HRV, and why does it drop when you’re sick?</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/what-is-hrv-and-why-does-it-drop-when-youre-sick</id>
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    <published>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>HRV is the small change in time between your heartbeats, and it often drops when you’re sick because your body shifts into a more stressed, faster-beating state.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Do naps hurt your night’s sleep?</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/do-naps-hurt-your-nights-sleep</id>
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    <published>2026-10-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>A short nap in the early afternoon rarely hurts your night’s sleep, but long, late or frequent naps can make it harder to fall asleep and stay asleep.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Reading your sleep chart</title>
    <id>https://voke.co/blog/reading-your-sleep-chart</id>
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    <published>2026-10-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Rida F’kih</name><uri>https://voke.co/about/rida</uri></author>
    <summary>What the awake, REM, light and deep rows on Voke’s sleep chart mean, and what a healthy night tends to look like.</summary>
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