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Meditation timer for the iphone |
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"I recommend it highly!" - Dave Caolo, TUAW July 26th 2010
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New Version 2.2.2! - July 12th 2011
Equanimity has been carefully designed to help you establish and maintain a daily meditation practice.
The journal is comparable in quality to many standalone note-taking apps. It allows you to optionally take notes after your sittings, and lets you browse through your meditation history as either a visually annotated log or textual journal. All of your recorded data can be exported - as a nicely formatted email that you can print, or as a table that you can load into a spreadsheet if you want. You can also email individual journal entries - useful for posting them on a blog.
Easy to read graphics let you know at a glance how regularly you are meditating, and how long your daily practice has been going. A chart illustrates your progress over the course of the year, and a bar graph shows the total number of hours you have meditated, and the application icon can optionally show daily reminders to sit or alert you if you've missed a sitting.
It's much easier to keep a routine going when you can see so clearly how you are doing.
The timer shows time passing using clean graphics that allow you to see at a glance where you are within your sitting period without being unduly distracted.
If your meditation routine incorporates different stages within a single sitting, you can set chimes to ring at the appropriate points using straightforward controls.
Because the timer is intended to be used every day, the design provides a calm and clear experience without unnecessary clutter.
This application has helped me to make meditation a daily practice, and I hope it can do the same for you.
Features:
- Icon Badge reminders - counts the days since you last sat. (iOS 4)
- Works in background on devices that support multitasking.
- Easily log meditations not timed using your iPhone (e.g. at a class or retreat etc).
- Swipe to delete existing log entries.
- Option to set time in 1 minute increments
- Long sitting options for open-ended sessions
- Simple and inviting visual design
- Clear visual illustration of elapsed time
- Optional screen blanking to save power
- Configurable sitting time
- Optional interval chimes, either equally spaced or a number of repeats of a fixed interval
- Configurable preparation time & cool down time
- Tracks continuous runs of daily practice
- Chart showing meditation levels across the year
- Bar graph displaying total practice hours
- Recent practice indicator showing how frequently you sit
- Graceful handling of interruptions (e.g. SMS, Phone)
- Pleasant gong tone
- iPod music can play in background
- Easy note entry after sittings
- Log of individual sittings
- Graphical connectors showing runs of sittings within list
- Note preview list
- Note editing
- Export individual notes by email
- Export all notes as a cleanly formatted readable document
- Export complete log with notes as Excel compatible CSV
*Compatible with the iPhone and the 2nd generation iPod Touch.
