Meditation timer with bells

The settling-in period gives you ten or thirty seconds to sit down and close your eyes before the first bell, so the session starts when you are ready rather than when you pressed a button. Interval bells are soft and optional; some people use them to notice a wandering mind, others find them a distraction and leave them off.

The closing bell is the same as the opening one. If an interval bell would land in the last few seconds, it is skipped, so the end is one clear sound.

Press Test bell. Browsers only play sound after you have tapped the page, and it is better to find out the volume is at zero before a twenty-minute sit than after. A phone may also dim its screen during a long session; the timer asks it to stay awake, which most current browsers allow.

Short and daily beats long and occasional, and the bell is the easy part. Tie the sit to something that already happens every day, such as the first coffee or the walk home, and keep the length where you would still do it on a bad day. Five minutes you do on Thursday is worth more than twenty you meant to do.