Box breathing before a meeting, 4-7-8 to wind down, a Wim Hof round on a Sunday morning — the practice is fast, but most apps make logging it slow. memorist turns it into a tap-and-go habit. Open Calm, tap Breathwork, tap a Minutes chip — the session auto-commits the moment you tap. Same minutes-based unit as Apple's HealthKit Mindful Minutes. No Add Session button, no number pad, no subscriptions to a guided audio service, no streaks — just a quiet record on your own timeline.
On the timeline, tap the plus on today's date and choose Calm. The Calm editor opens, titled Calm for today, with two cards stacked vertically — one for Meditation, one for Breathwork. Both start empty, each with a + on the right.
If you've already created a Calm entry today, tapping plus again opens the same one in edit mode — you don't end up with two cards on the same day.
Tap the Breathwork card (or its +). A bottom sheet slides up titled Breathwork, with a row of bare-number Minutes chips and a Type chip group below. The Type chips are dimmed until you choose a Minutes value — a session needs a duration before a technique can be attached. No keyboard, no number pad, nothing to confirm.
Tapping an existing breathwork session in the expanded card reopens the same sheet with that session's chips pre-selected, so editing in place is the same gesture as creating.
Minutes chips run 1, 2, then 5 through 90 in 5-minute increments — twenty values that cover a 1-minute box-breathing reset before a meeting all the way through a longer Wim Hof round on a Sunday morning. The chips are bare numbers; the unit "Minutes" lives in the section header. There is no Custom field and no number pad: the chip set covers every length the app cares about.
Tap a Minutes chip and the session auto-commits. No Add Session button, no submit. Tap a different chip to swap durations. Tap the same chip again to remove the session. Swipe the sheet down when you're finished.
Once a Minutes value is selected, the Type chips brighten and become tappable (optional):
If you don't want to label the technique, just don't tap one. The session saves as untyped — minutes and date are enough.
Below the activity card, the note field accepts free text and the same tag suggestions as the rest of memorist. Useful tags for breathwork: the situation that prompted it (#beforeMeeting, #wakingUp, #panic), the place (#carPark, #office), or the mood (#anxious, #wired).
Notes are optional. A duration and a date are a complete entry on their own.
Your breathwork session appears on today's timeline. Tap the Calm card to expand it and see each session on its own line:
To add another session later in the day, open the editor and tap the + on the Breathwork card — the same affordance that started the first session. To edit an entry from yesterday or last month, long-press its card on the timeline.
Drift builds a Calm card from your sessions over time: total breathwork minutes, session count, average length, longest session, and a top-techniques panel showing which methods you reach for most. Drift Insights also surface breathwork patterns — a Sunday-evening anchor, a quiet stretch, a streak you didn't realize you were on.
Related how-to guides & articles
Log a meditation session — Same Calm entry, same five-second flow, different chips.
See what your journal reveals — Drift Insights notice breathwork rhythms and quiet stretches without you asking.
Your thoughts stay yours — Breathwork sessions are end-to-end encrypted, like everything else in memorist.
What is a Calm entry? — Why Calm is structured the way it is, and what you actually get from logging one over months.
