I've been using Evernote for many years, and I'm very happy with it. Notion reminds me a lot of Evernote, but it's slicker and more visual. Also some nice tools. Maybe Evernote will make a little update now that they have competition 🙂 

I have by now a real tarot encyclopedia in Evernote. I can recommend a digital journal, too, but having a hand-written journal is also great. The important thing is to journal at all, and to find the tool that suits you. 

thanks for sharing your digital tarot journal @italktarot

Mine is not so pretty but like @Nemia it's also in evernote. I have pages of my ideas and notes and also all my readings and even an important section for text for this forum. It keeps me organised.

@Nemia Unfortunately there is a bit of a problem with Evernote now. I have been following the story online and it was bought by a European company in Italy, as it was in a financial bad place and needed rewriting as software to meet modern standards. The company that bought it in the last year has upped the subscription costs by at least 50% for everyone 😭. I was on a cute legacy package on it which has done me well for years but had a message that I will be transferred to the Personal Tariff. This is £79.99 or €99.99 a year. I was paying like £40 before and for many years around £29. You get an email 30 days before your renewal with your new price and they began in May. I haven't decided what I am going to do yet but many customers are jumping ship and Notion is one alternative. I can't decide if it's worth it or not, it's a huge increase but I hate importing, exporting, saving, moving all my files 😞 . I've got a few months to think it over.

Wow, I didn't know that. I'll have to think now what to do. I wish Notion had a tool to transfer files with ease 😉 I've been using Evernote for many, many years and have a humungous amount of material there. I'll think about it, thank you for the heads-up. 

I also love digital journalling. I’ve tried pen and paper but couldn’t stick to it because I’m a busy person. I type much faster than I write by hand. Also, I can update my journals from anywhere and at any time, whereas I really wouldn’t want to bring a physical journal to work for example. I’ve tried journalling here in this forum, but I found it too messy as I couldn’t easily find certain readings, plus I couldn’t edit my posts, which meant my feedback was all over the place. Also I’ve been doing some shadow work which is best kept private.

I tried Evernote many moons ago but quit it quickly because of storage limits - I really didn’t want to pay, especially being in my teens. No way my mum would let me use her card for something like this.

I’ve tried Notion as well, and for me it didn’t really work. There is way too much there! Making fancy pages was fun at first, but once I got over the novelty, it was a bit annoying to keep up with everything. I stopped bothering filling in my trackers etc. I ended up having too many pages all over the place because it tends to create a new page for every little thing, plus there is a bit of a learning curve. I remember tables being so annoying to create.

I tried Goodnotes on iPad but the rest of my tech is Samsung and Windows, which meant I could only journal on my iPad. No thanks.

I settled with OneNote. I’ve been using Word ever since I could use a computer pretty much, and OneNote is like Word but less restrictive. I like it because I have complete control over customisation. I have all of my dailies in one page, presented in a linear fashion so I can scroll through them quickly. I can use it on all of my devices. It is also completely free. I made mine minimalistic so I’m not too overwhelmed with keeping it up. I have a 2023 notebook. Within it I have pages for each month. I also have a separate notebook for study stuff. I might make another notebook with deck-specific pages. It’s simple and does the job. However I wish it had tags like Notion, so I could easily find readings by tag. But for now I will settle with making a separate page for each deck and copying and pasting readings from my dailies page into the deck-specific page. Shouldn’t take too long!

Notion looks very interesting, but seems a little too complex for very boring me. 🙂   I have used a personal tarot wiki on Miraheze for my online journaling love it because its simplicity.  It uses MediaWiki software just like Wikipedia and I donate $5 a year.  I also tried Penzu in the past but the free version didn't offer the right editing features and I came to rely on Miraheze instead.

Every morning, I do a little ink and paper journaling (following a 1 card draw) over coffee before I turn to the Internet.   I've found that the combination of both works fabulously for me.  My virtual journaling is more academic with me loading pictures and looking up links/information.  I think if something did happen to Miraheze, I'd probably turn to Notion and love it once I got over my ever so common anxiety over new tools/new ways of doing things.  

Notion seems a little too complicated to me.  I like Day One which which has many benefits.  It can run on Android and iOS devices.  I like to use it on my iPad. 

I found this thread yesterday. I had never heard of Notion before.

I've only just started looking into it so I've barely touched the surface of possibilities. But I have already started creating a solution for my "Card of the Day" (that can be reused for a larger journaling solution as well).

It's very easy to connect tables and use relationships and rollup properties, and get statistics. So now I quickly made a table for my decks, and another table for my meanings of each individual card. Then I have a third table where I can enter my daily card, and this table connects to the other tables and get info from them. Similarly, it is easy to add value later with other tables/databases for things such as numerology, tree of life, astrology and so on.

Notion is a clever system. Me like. Thanks for the advice, you have definitely inspired me @italktarot  🙂

Thank you all for sharing your considerations! I started journaling in OneNote, probably not the most luxurious option but we pay for Office anyway, so why not use what's available. It is convenient enough for me. i tried hand journaling but realized I was failing, so now I only make short hand written notes now and then. And I am journaling in my mother tongue, proved to be so much easier (or rather it is a mix of Russian and English). I guess I need to do what's easier now, otherwise obviously I am not getting things done at all. 

i was literally asking about something like this here recently. amazing! thanks for sharing this @italktarot

Your digital journal looks very good. I also have a digital journal, but it is in Word. I can also save it as a pdf file, so that I can use it as an ebook on my smartphone.

I have heard from Notion and OneNote before. But I have no clue how to use it. I am a little bit old fashioned. Your Journal looks like a website. Keep up the the good journalling. Thanks for sharing it. It is beautifull.

Day One is still best for me.  My handwriting is bad and I can include pictures of cards and spreads.  Whatever floats everyone's boat.