Choosing where the reading chair goes after dark

Mara moved into a small flat on Sunday, and by Wednesday evening she still had not decided where her reading chair should go. The living room has a ceiling light, one floor lamp and a window that is useless after sunset. Every corner looked fine for about five minutes and then her eyes started to feel tired halfway through a chapter.

She already wears a Wear OS watch, so she opened WristLux and set it to the reading mode. Standing by the window corner, she held her wrist where the book would be and saw the live lux number settle. She held that reading so it stayed on screen.

Then she walked to the corner next to the floor lamp. The live meter climbed while the held value from the window corner stayed beside it, so the difference was right there on her wrist without writing anything down. The lamp corner was clearly brighter.

To be sure, she started a session and did a slow lap of the room with her wrist at the same height. The session showed the minimum, the maximum and the average when she stopped. The minimum came from the spot behind the sofa, the maximum from right under the floor lamp. That confirmed what she half suspected: the ceiling light alone was not doing much for reading.

She pushed the chair into the lamp corner and took one more reading from the seat itself, then saved it. Now the number sits on her Tile, along with how fresh it is, so on Thursday she can glance at it before changing anything.

She knows the reading is a rough reference. Her sleeve and the angle of her wrist moved it a little, so she kept her arm in the same position for every check. That was enough to compare corners in her own flat, which was all she needed.

An illustrative story built only from features WristLux offers.