# Timer integration **URL:** \ **Category:** Newbee\ **Created:** [December 28, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658 "2017-12-28T20:08:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leahvelleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@leahvelleman](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/leahvelleman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/1 "2017-12-28T20:08:51Z")
My actual goal is to spend about twenty minutes a day VERBing. Right now, the number I’m tracking is “number of twenty-minute VERBing sessions.” But really some days I do more than twenty minutes and some days I do less, and so I’d like to make it finer-grained and track “minutes spent VERBing.” So what I _really_ want, to cut down on friction, is integration with a timer app. I push a button when I start VERBing, push it again when I stop VERBing, and the number of minutes elapsed is added up automatically and added to my Beeminder goal. How might I do that? Do any of the services with existing integrations offer a feature like this? ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/2 "2017-12-28T20:11:44Z")
If you use Android, you’re in luck! The android app has this built in. ---
**Author:** ![leahvelleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@leahvelleman](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/leahvelleman)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/3 "2017-12-28T20:17:20Z")
iPhone only, I’m afraid. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![claredragonfly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/claredragonfly/32/5394_2.png) [@claredragonfly](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/claredragonfly)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/4 "2017-12-29T00:09:06Z")
That sounds like a thing I would also use, if it were a thing (for iOS or desktop, preferably desktop). ---
**Author:** ![nectar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/nectar/32/1719_2.png) [@nectar](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/nectar)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/5 "2017-12-29T08:16:10Z")
The [Nectar mobile app](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-mobile-app-android-ios-windows-plus-7-new-integrations/3421) also has a timer built in. > [@claredragonfly](#): > > if it were a thing (for iOS or desktop, preferably desktop) It is available for Windows laptops and desktops. ---
**Author:** ![mbork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@mbork](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mbork)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/6 "2017-12-30T07:29:04Z")
How about using Emacs Org-mode for that? I’ve been doing exactly that for a few years now. > **[mbork/beeminder.el](https://github.com/mbork/beeminder.el)** > > A Beeminder client for Emacs. Contribute to mbork/beeminder.el development by creating an account on GitHub. ---
**Author:** ![oulfis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/oulfis/32/229_2.png) [@oulfis](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/oulfis)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/7 "2017-12-30T10:36:23Z")
One complicated way to do this is to use Toggl, and then to use Zapier to integrate Toggl with Beeminder. That’s what I’ve done for a huge number of “minutes spent VERBing” goals. ---
**Author:** ![apb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apb/32/100_2.png) [@apb](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apb)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/8 "2018-01-03T16:53:29Z")
The latest version of the iOS app (5.0) includes a timer mode and is now in the App Store. ---
**Author:** ![lanthala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lanthala](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lanthala)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/9 "2018-01-04T21:50:58Z")
This is why I really want full toggl integration; it would save me a lot of manual data entry (and also enable a bunch of interesting combination beeminder goals that are too tedious to manage now) ---
**Author:** ![k1rsty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/k1rsty/32/3165_2.png) [@k1rsty](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/k1rsty)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/10 "2018-01-10T10:42:30Z")
Which is great, thank you! Would it be possible to get it to optionally take a comment when you save the datapoint from the timer too? ---
**Author:** ![apb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apb/32/100_2.png) [@apb](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apb)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/timer-integration/3658/11 "2018-01-15T22:25:17Z")
Yes! I can work on adding that as well.