Most meditation apps want you to listen, breathe, and rate the session before you can move on. memorist just wants the minutes. Start an Entry, add a Meditation session, 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 other entries, your photos, and the rest of your day.
On the timeline, tap + or the Entry button to start a new Entry. Everything in memorist is a single Entry — a meditation is one of the details you add inside it, alongside a note, a mood, a photo, or a breathwork session.
The Entry lives on its date. 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 Meditation session. 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 in this Entry, tap it to reopen the same sheet with that session's chips pre-selected — swap the duration, change the technique, done.
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):
If you don't want to attribute a 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 supports the same tag suggestions and hashtags as your other entries, plus an optional mood. Tag the place you sat, the teacher you listened to, the mood you started in — whatever's worth keeping.
Notes are completely optional. An Entry with just a meditation duration is a valid entry.
Your meditation appears on today's timeline alongside your other entries and photos. Tap the entry to expand it and see each session on its own line:
To add another meditation later the same day, open that day's Entry and add another Meditation session — the same flow that started the first. To edit an older entry — yesterday's, last week's, last month's — long-press its card on the timeline.
Every session stays on your timeline, so the shape of your practice is yours to look back on — a run of steady mornings, a Tuesday rhythm, a quiet stretch worth coming back to. 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 breathwork session — Same Entry, same five-second flow, different chips.
Look back over your journal — Scroll your own timeline to see meditation runs, weekday rhythms, and quiet stretches.
Your thoughts stay yours — Meditation entries 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.
