Stop Rebuilding the Same Timers Every Day
If you're setting up the same timer sequence more than once, you're doing it wrong. Tempo's library lets you save any configuration and reload it in one click.
Most people who use timers regularly have a handful of setups they return to constantly. The same Pomodoro sequence. The same cooking timers for their weekly meal prep. The same workout circuit they run three times a week.
And most people rebuild those setups from scratch every single time.
That's unnecessary. Tempo's library is designed to eliminate it.
What the library stores
Tempo lets you save two types of things to your library:
Individual timers. Any timer you've configured — name, duration, mode, description, chain settings — can be saved as a reusable template. A "Rice — 18:00" timer. A "Deep work — 50:00" block. A "Sourdough second prove — 45:00". Save it once, add it to any session in one click.
Sequences. Your entire current board — every timer, every chain, every configuration — saved as a named sequence. "Morning routine." "HIIT circuit 6x40/20." "Sunday meal prep." Load any sequence and it replaces your board with the full setup, ready to start.
Building your library
The process is simple. Build a timer or a full board the way you want it. Click Save to library (on an individual timer card) or Save sequence (in the library modal for the full board). Give it a name.
That's it. It's stored locally in your browser and persists across sessions.
Over a few weeks of regular use, your library becomes a personal collection of every timing setup that matters to you. You stop thinking about setup entirely and just load what you need.
Overwriting and updating
Your setups change over time. Maybe your workout circuit evolves. Maybe you've refined your meal prep timings. Tempo handles this cleanly — if you save a sequence with the same name as an existing one, it overwrites it. No duplicate clutter.
The Overwrite button on an existing sequence does the same thing with one click: capture the current board state into that saved sequence.
Practical library setups worth building
Study: "Pomodoro — 4 rounds" (Focus x4, Break x3, Long break x1, all chained). "Quick session — 2 rounds" for shorter windows.
Fitness: One sequence per workout type. "Tabata", "HIIT 6x40/20", "Circuit — upper body". Load whichever matches the day.
Cooking: "Pasta night" (water boil, pasta, sauce — all parallel). "Sunday roast" (roast, vegetables, resting — chained and parallel). "Meal prep" (your full weekly prep sequence).
Work: "Deep work block — 90min" (two focus periods with a break chained between them). "Meeting buffer — 5min" for the transition time you always forget to account for.
Why this matters
The few minutes you spend rebuilding a timer setup every day aren't the real cost. The real cost is the decision-making — remembering exactly how long each stage was, whether you had a break in there, what the right order was. That cognitive load adds up.
A library turns those decisions into a one-time investment. Make the setup once, get it right, save it. Every subsequent session starts from the right place.