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Log a meditation session — a private meditation tracker, built into your journal

Most meditation apps want you to listen, breathe, and rate the session before you can move on. memorist just wants the minutes. Open Calm from the per-day plus menu, tap Meditation, tap a Minutes chip — that's it. The session auto-commits the moment you tap. No Add Session button, no number pad, no streak guilt. Your meditation lands on your timeline next to your journal entries, your photos, and the rest of your day.

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.

Calm lives on today's date. If you already created a Calm entry earlier in the day, the same editor opens in edit mode so you can add another session to it.

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Per-day plus menu showing the Calm option

Tap the Meditation card (or its +). A bottom sheet slides up titled Meditation, 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 has to have a duration before a technique can be attached to it. There's no number pad, no submit button, nothing to confirm.

If you've already logged a session today, tap it in the expanded card to reopen the same sheet with that session's chips pre-selected — swap the duration, change the technique, done.

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Quick Input bottom sheet for Meditation

Minutes chips run 1, 2, then 5 through 90 in 5-minute increments — twenty values that read like a slider but tap like buttons. The chips themselves are bare numbers; the unit "Minutes" lives in the section header so the row stays short and dense. 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):

  • Guided
  • Unguided
  • Body scan
  • Breath awareness
  • Loving-kindness
  • Visualization
  • Mantra
  • Open awareness
  • Other

If you don't want to attribute a technique, just don't tap one. The session saves as untyped — minutes and date are enough.

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Minutes and Type chip groups

Below the activity card, the note field accepts free text and supports the same tag suggestions and hashtags as your other entries. Tag the place you sat, the teacher you listened to, the mood you started in — whatever's worth keeping.

Notes are completely optional. A meditation entry with just a duration is a valid entry.

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Note field with tag suggestions

Your meditation appears on today's timeline alongside your journal entries, body check-ins, and other moments. Tap the Calm card to expand it and see each session on its own line:

  • 10 min · Guided
  • 2 min · Body scan

To add another meditation later, open the editor and tap the + on the Meditation card — the same affordance that started the first session. To edit an older entry — yesterday's, last week's, last month's — long-press its card on the timeline.

Over time, the Drift screen builds a Calm card from your sessions: total minutes, session count, average length, longest sit, and the techniques you reach for most. Drift Insights notice your patterns too — a meditation streak, a Tuesday-morning rhythm, a quiet stretch worth coming back to.

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Calm card on the timeline + Drift summary

Related how-to guides & articles

Log a breathwork session — Same Calm entry, same five-second flow, different chips.

See what your journal reveals — Drift Insights notice meditation streaks, weekday rhythms, and quiet stretches without you asking.

Your thoughts stay yours — Meditation entries 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.

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What to know about meditation in memorist

One Calm entry per day, as many sessions as you want.
Multiple meditations on the same day stack inside a single Calm entry — a 10-minute Guided sit in the morning and a 2-minute Body scan at lunch live on the same Meditation card, on the same day, each on its own line.
Technique is optional. A meditation is a meditation.
If you don't know what kind of meditation you did, or don't want to label it, leave the technique row alone. The session still saves, still counts, and still feeds your Drift card.
No streak guilt.
memorist doesn't punish missed days. The Drift screen shows your totals and your longest session honestly — not a flame icon that resets if you skip Tuesday.
Your meditation history stays private.
Sessions, techniques, and notes are end-to-end encrypted when encryption is on. memorist can't read them. No coach, no AI, no third party gets access to your sit time.