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. Start an Entry, add a Breathwork session, 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 + or the Entry button to start a new Entry. Everything in memorist is a single Entry — a breathwork session is one of the details you add inside it, alongside a note, a mood, a photo, or a meditation.
If you already have an Entry for today, open that same one to add another session to it rather than starting a second.
Inside the Entry, add a Breathwork session. 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 Entry 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.
The same Entry has a note field that accepts free text and the same tag suggestions as the rest of memorist, plus an optional mood. 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 entry to expand it and see each session on its own line:
To add another session later in the day, open that day's Entry and add another Breathwork session — the same flow that started the first. To edit an entry from yesterday or last month, long-press its card on the timeline.
Every session stays on your timeline, so your breathwork history is yours to look back on — a Sunday-evening habit, a quiet stretch, a run you didn't realize you were on. With the optional membership, usage stats total your minutes and sessions for you; either way it's your own record to read.
Related how-to guides & articles
Log a meditation session — Same Entry, same five-second flow, different chips.
Look back over your journal — Scroll your own timeline to see breathwork rhythms and quiet stretches.
Your thoughts stay yours — Breathwork sessions are end-to-end encrypted, like everything else in memorist.
Logging meditation & breathwork — Why logging sessions is structured the way it is, and what you actually get from keeping the record over months.
