also: does anyone write journal on the computer?

[Storm82]

I keep EVERYTHING on Evernote. I even write my Blog there before I transfer it in. It's nice to have your stuff saved on a web site just in case your computer goes down. I just couldn't live without mine.

That's evernote.com and yes it does require a password. And you can add in photos too. And links to other sites.

Babs

is evernote also free?
if it has both free and licence, is the free version any good?

 

[Storm82]

I personally use TreeDBNotes Pro, but there is a free version. You can put passwords for a file or for certain entries, the tree My Readings at the top has a password.

http://www.mytreedb.com/treedbnotes_free.html

That is how my tarot database looks like in TreeDBNotes:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/wolfyjames/nada/treedbnotes01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/wolfyjames/nada/treedbnotes02.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/wolfyjames/nada/treedbnotes03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/wolfyjames/nada/treedbnotes04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/wolfyjames/nada/treedbnotes05.png

looks very nice

is the free version any good?

is it like a diary or more like onenote?

 

[Winterchild]

Moleskine have an app but not sure if it is only for phones.

Evernote is brilliant and you can have it set like a diary.

Another great app is called Journler but I think that may be a Mac only one.....

 

[Annabelle]

I don't have a good offline solution (other than Word or something along those lines), but I frequently use Evernote to type up and keep records of tarot readings.

Otherwise, my Tumblr blog is my all-purpose spot to write anything and everything, include occasional records of personal tarot readings, which I sometimes mark as Private so only I can see them.

 

[Storm82]

i will check out the options you all mentioned

(i cant use something thats only available for phones, apps, dont have a phone)

 

[SunChariot]

is evernote also free?
if it has both free and licence, is the free version any good?

Yes, AND it has a cell phone app too, that can be synced to the online one. So I can see my notes no matter where I go.

I use my Evernote for everything, I have so much in there. LOL

I believe you can upgrade to a fancier version if you ever wanted to, but I never did or saw any need to personally. The free one works fine for me.

Babs

 

[Winterchild]

Evernote

Yes, AND it has a cell phone app too, that can be synced to the online one. So I can see my notes no matter where I go.

I use my Evernote for everything, I have so much in there. LOL

I believe you can upgrade to a fancier version if you ever wanted to, but I never did or saw any need to personally. The free one works fine for me.

Babs

Me too Babs... The free version is *EXCELLENT* as far as I can see all you get for the paid version is more online storage space if you use that as a back up. But I used it for ages offline without a problem, just had it local on my Mac.

If you do use Evernote Storm, there are some great posts about it on a thread here about Tarot Journaling.. there are a few Evernote experts here!!

 

[Trogon]

I've been thinking about going this route for my readings. But I want to make it searchable so I can go back and find a reading easily, say search on a given card and see what readings it has come up in and how I interpreted it. My thought was to go with a database as I've had some experience with them quite a bit at work. If you have Microsoft Office, you could create such a database, then create an entry form which looks like a journal page. If you don't have Microsoft Office, I would recommend "Open Office" (available at "openoffice.org" ... it's a free, open source, office suite with word processor, database, spreadsheet & a couple of others).

A database like this would have the advantage of being readily searchable. I don't know what search capabilities the previously mentioned journal / note type programs might have. Then again, those programs would work very well if you weren't concerned about searching for particular items, or using it as a catalog of readings. But a database would be easy to sort different ways (obviously by date, but you could also sort by which deck is used for example, or by the name of the person you read for, or the spread you used).

Also, if you have little or no experience with databases, creating such a thing could be a little daunting. But, like I said, I have some experience with building these kinds of things, so it's kind of what I think of right off. Though the idea of entering all the readings I've done since about 1993 is a bit intimidating.

Hmm ... I wonder if others would be interested if I did create such a thing? I wonder if someone already has?

 

[Winterchild]

Really Trogon Evernote is superb....


Give it a whirl.... it is seacrhable, you can import from the web, it has web back up if you want it, you can arrange things into notebooks, it has tagging.... it is FABULOUS!! And its FREE!!!!

Nothing to lose

I've been thinking about going this route for my readings. But I want to make it searchable so I can go back and find a reading easily, say search on a given card and see what readings it has come up in and how I interpreted it. My thought was to go with a database as I've had some experience with them quite a bit at work. If you have Microsoft Office, you could create such a database, then create an entry form which looks like a journal page. If you don't have Microsoft Office, I would recommend "Open Office" (available at "openoffice.org" ... it's a free, open source, office suite with word processor, database, spreadsheet & a couple of others).

A database like this would have the advantage of being readily searchable. I don't know what search capabilities the previously mentioned journal / note type programs might have. Then again, those programs would work very well if you weren't concerned about searching for particular items, or using it as a catalog of readings. But a database would be easy to sort different ways (obviously by date, but you could also sort by which deck is used for example, or by the name of the person you read for, or the spread you used).

Also, if you have little or no experience with databases, creating such a thing could be a little daunting. But, like I said, I have some experience with building these kinds of things, so it's kind of what I think of right off. Though the idea of entering all the readings I've done since about 1993 is a bit intimidating.

Hmm ... I wonder if others would be interested if I did create such a thing? I wonder if someone already has?

 

[mellowcheddar]

But I want to make it searchable so I can go back and find a reading easily, say search on a given card and see what readings it has come up in and how I interpreted it.

Trogon, you can do that on Word.