Mindless, the practice timer

Mindless is where you do the practice, not just log it. Get out of your head, and into your life. One tap, the screen goes quiet, and it walks you through it. When you finish, the Quest pays you on the spot.

One timer, two modes. Be Still is for sitting: a meditation, a breath set, a quiet timer with a note field. Get Moving is for the practices where you're actually moving: a walk, a run, a yoga flow, a workout, a stretch, a game of something. Same fullscreen quiet, same timer, same payout at the end. Pick a practice and Mindless opens in the mode that fits it, and you can switch.

Tuning out

Open it from the Mindless button in the header (it opens fullscreen, taking over the screen wherever you are on the site), from the Start Practice button on a timer practice in a Journey, from the Zap button (the Mindless row), from your home screen (the little lotus next to any practice), or from a practice page. Mindless opens already set to the right practice and its length, and it remembers your choices for next time. There is nothing to pick: it lands on today's practice when you have one to do, and on Free Practice once you've done it (or if you haven't adopted anything yet), so you can keep going as long as you like. You still get a say over how you do it:

• When you are on a Journey, its week drives the list. Mindless shows the practices of your current Journey week plus the Anchor (the daily through-line), with a chip saying which week it is, Week 2 of 4, so the swap is never a mystery. Finish or leave the Journey and your own practices come straight back.
• The practice is chosen for you. If you have a practice due today, Mindless opens on it so a tap starts it, banking the right log with the right length. Once today's practice is done, it opens on Free Practice so you can tune out any time you want. A "Logs as" line shows exactly which log you're banking.
• A mode: Be Still or Get Moving. Mindless opens in the mode that fits the practice. You can switch.
  • Be Still is for sitting. Meditate, Stillness, and Ritual are quiet countdowns that frame the sit a little differently. Breathe gives you a guided breathing pattern with a visual to follow (see the patterns below). Journal runs the same quiet timer with a note field, so you can write while you sit. Just Log has no timer at all: jot a quick note about what you did, tap Log it, and you're done.
  • Get Moving is for moving. Walk and Run are timed blocks, with optional nudges every few minutes if you want them. Yoga and Stretch hold and transition with a cue when it's time to move, so you can keep your eyes closed and follow the sound. Strength runs work-and-rest rounds and counts you through them out loud, with Tabata (twenty on, ten off, eight rounds), EMOM (a round at the top of each minute) and AMRAP (one block, as many rounds as you fit) built in. Play is an open count-up: no target, no buzzer, start it, do the thing, stop when you're done.
• Minutes. The timer starts at the practice's own length when it has one, and you can change it. Two is enough. Five is plenty. Use the stepper for anything up to a hundred and twenty.

Then hit Start Practice. A short five-second countdown settles you in first, the same for Be Still and Get Moving, with the length you're about to do shown right below it (tap Begin now to start right away). If the person who built the practice left a warm-up note, it shows on screen as the timer counts you in, so you know how to set up before you begin. It's the same timer counting the lead-in and then your session. You can set the countdown to three, five, or ten seconds under Sounds & Settings (a practice can carry its own warm-up length too). While you're tuned out the screen stays awake and everything else gets out of the way. Pause if life interrupts (paused time doesn't count), and when the timer runs out, hit Finish to collect.

Stop early and it still counts, as long as you got at least halfway: the day is logged, your streak holds, and you bank one Zap right then. The practice then reads Continue Practice wherever you'd log it (your home screen, a Journey, the Zap button), so you can pick up where you left off and collect the rest of the Zaps. Continue Practice picks it up at the time you had left, not from zero. Stop before halfway and nothing logs yet, so come back to it when you can. The practice is the point, not the clock.

Closed the tab mid-sit? If your phone shuts the page while you're tuned out (a long walk with the screen off, a tab the browser drops), reopen Mindless and it offers to Resume right where you were, with the exact time you'd already done. Nothing is lost.

A whole session, back to back

Some Journey weeks group a few timed practices together (a warm-up, the main practice, a cooldown). When they do, you'll see Start all as one session on that group. Tap it and Mindless runs them one after another: finish the first, collect its rewards, and it rolls straight into the next warm-up. A small "Practice 2 of 3" line keeps your place. Each one still logs on its own and pays its own Zaps, so a session is just the same practices in a row without stopping to set up between them. Close the rewards on the last one and you're done. Want to stop partway? Leave any time; everything you finished is already banked.

Breathing patterns (Be Still)

When you pick Breathe, choose a pattern. A Breathe practice can also come with its pattern already chosen by whoever built it, so it opens ready to go; you can still switch to your own.

• Box: four counts in, hold, out, hold. Steady under pressure.
• 3X: a big breath in, sip a little more, then one long letting go (the physiological sigh). The body's fastest reset.
• 4-7-8: long exhale. For winding down.
• Custom: set your own counts with three sliders, three to eight seconds a phase. Skip the hold entirely if that suits your body better.

Want sound or touch instead of watching the screen? Turn on the bell (it rings at each phase change, or each minute on the plain timer) and pick its voice: Soft, Low, or Bowl. Or turn on vibration. Both stay off unless you choose them, and your choices are remembered. While you breathe, the number in the middle of the rings counts each phase down with you.

Want a soft background instead of silence? Under Sounds & Settings, pick an Ambient loop: Forest, Ocean, or Drift. Tap one to hear it, and it plays low under the whole sit, fading in as you start and out when you finish. Off by default, and remembered once you choose.

Follow the rings: they grow when you breathe in, rest while you hold, and settle as you let go.

Cues while you move (Get Moving)

In Get Moving you get audio cues so you don't have to watch the screen: a sound to start, sounds at each interval or transition, and a sound at the end. Turn on interval reminders for a nudge every few minutes on a walk or run, follow the cue to switch sides on a stretch or move to the next hold in a yoga flow, or let Strength count you through each work-and-rest round. The screen stays awake the whole time. Pause if life interrupts, and Finish to collect, same as a sit.

On a walk, run or stretch, hitting your target doesn't stop the clock. It rings once, then keeps counting up (+2:05 and so on) with a line under it naming the tier you've reached and how many more minutes reach the next one. Keep going as long as you like: the extra time counts toward your tier when you tap Finish. Go well past your target and it asks if you're still moving; tap Still here to keep logging. A yoga flow and a Strength set end with their last pose or round.

The reveal

When the timer ends, swipe through four screens:

1. Rewards. Your Zaps land, then any bonuses stack up one by one: Full Day, Welcome Back, and the occasional surprise.
2. Streak. Watch the number tick over, see how far the next milestone is, and check your banked freezes.
3. Stats. This sit, your airtime today and all-time, how deep you are on this practice, and your Amplitude.
4. Dispatch from Vera. Your next assignment: the next step on your Journey, a challenge you can close out, or where to show up this week. One per day; it stays saved. Find every past one under Past Dispatches on the Mindless screen.

When you reach the last card, one more swipe sends it off the screen and you're back where you started. In a hurry? Pull any card straight down and the whole thing slides away.

Already logged that practice today? The extra sit still banks airtime, and your streak holds. Nothing pays twice, and nothing is lost.