Looking to purchase a Tarot Journal.

[MaraJadeSaurus]

Hey, all.

 

I've been interested in buying a Tarot Workbook to keep organized notes and to learn the cards more personally; I'd like to get some opinions on what others have purchased, or if you've just made your own and called it a day. 

 

im looking at getting the Labyrinthos Tarot Journal/Workbook because it's just so appealing to me. Gold on black. 

There are also some pretty ones on Amazon, but I'm just not drawn to their look the way the Labyrinthos one is. 

 

Looking forward to other's opinions and suggestions! 

 

 

 

https://labyrinthos.co/products/tarot-journal-and-workbook

[joy]

Hey @MaraJadeSaurusthis section is more for people to have their journals online, your thread is more about a general question which one to use. Therefore I will move your thread to 'Tarot Talk & Technique'.

[legendaryelement]

While I love the look & feel of a quality bound book, this sort of note-keeping makes me want printable pages that I can insert or move around in a ring binder. I try to get the view binders where the front & back have a slot for you to make & insert your own covers. They come in regular page size and in 4" half-page size. Hole reinforcers are advised if you are not using sheet protector pages.

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/944116/Avery-Hole-Reinforcements-Clear-1000-Labels/

 

 

These are resources I’ve recommended:

https://www.printablepaper.net/category/lined

http://www.wellappointeddesk.com/2014/05/turn-a-blank-notebook-into-a-lined-notebook/

 

https://benebellwen.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/tarot-study-journal-scarlet-ravenswood-and-benebell-wen.pdf

 

Edited March 27, 2021 by legendaryelement

[katrinka]

I confess that I haven't journaled readings in years and most of my notes are online, but anything handwritten goes in a leather journal like this one:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/724719106/leather-journal-lined-paper-for-men-and?ref=shop_home_recs_8&frs=1

Etsy has a variety of them.
https://www.etsy.com/market/leather_journals

 

And some nice vegan options:
https://www.etsy.com/market/vegan_leather_journal

 

Edited March 27, 2021 by katrinka

[Rupicapra]

I’ve been eyeing the Modern Witch Tarot Journal. It’s designed to go with the Modern Witch Deck, but they claim that it can be used with any deck (I gotta admit that I’ve been eyeing the deck too). 
 

@katrinka what online platform or whatever it’s called do you use?

 

I like notions.so because it’s so customisable. I love having an online journal because I can access it anywhere plus it is easy to add photos and pictures, but at the same time I just love fountain pens and nice paper and handwritten notes. But by mixing my journals I and up having a lot of different ones and all my stuff in different places! The handwritten stuff is just a random mix of mainly A5 notebooks.

[TheLoracular]

I tend to lose or have accidents with paper journals and do all my stuff online now, especially at Penzu but if cost wasn't a concern, based solely on looks and the way things are laid out?  I'd feel the same attraction to the Labyrinthos one.  I would probably buy theirs or the one at Biddy Tarot honestly because they are both sites that I really like and would feel worth supporting financially in that way vs. Amazon.   

[katrinka]

6 hours ago, Rupicapra said:

what online platform or whatever it’s called do you use?

 

Platforms come and platforms go, so I simply put a lot of things in emails and mail them to myself, lol. I can write things there, insert images, copypaste, attach files, everything I need to do. (I doubt gmail is going away anytime soon.) It's searchable and I can put things in folders. 
 

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I like notions.so because it’s so customisable. I love having an online journal because I can access it anywhere plus it is easy to add photos and pictures, but at the same time I just love fountain pens and nice paper and handwritten notes.

 

Fountain pens - yes! 
I don't do a lot of hardcopy, my current journal has just a bit of card stuff - the rest is recipes and other quick reference items for around the house. Anyone who noses around in it thinking they've found a grimoire will be sorely disappointed.

Edited March 28, 2021 by katrinka

[LogicalHue]

I have several journals going at a time. I have 1) for filling in meanings for cards gleaned from readings, which I personally had big plans for but have let fall by the wayside. I have 2) for recording all of my readings. And 3) is for everything else, like topic ideas for readings, spreads I like, charts that record which cards I'm getting when and which decks I use and how they read, things like that. 1 & 3 are dot grid and 2 is blank.

 

[MaraJadeSaurus]

anybody else not receiving notifications for replies to forums? 

kinda peeved im missing all yall's responses. 

[MaraJadeSaurus]

9 hours ago, TheLoracular said:

I tend to lose or have accidents with paper journals and do all my stuff online now, especially at Penzu but if cost wasn't a concern, based solely on looks and the way things are laid out?  I'd feel the same attraction to the Labyrinthos one.  I would probably buy theirs or the one at Biddy Tarot honestly because they are both sites that I really like and would feel worth supporting financially in that way vs. Amazon.   

see? this is what I mean. 
I like having an online journal where i can just ctrl + f to find what I want, but I really want to sit down and put pen to paper. 

 

Ill check out the biddy tarot one, thank you. I'd rather support direct businesses instead of Amazon. 

[LogicalHue]

12 hours ago, MaraJadeSaurus said:

anybody else not receiving notifications for replies to forums? 

kinda peeved im missing all yall's responses. 

You have to follow the thread if you want to get notifications. Or people have to "@" you or quote you.

Edited March 29, 2021 by LogicalHue

[smittenkitten]

I'm an avid bullet journaller. I'm only just beginning my return to tarot. In the past I used to buy spiral bound notebooks, absolutely nothing fancy, nice and big so I had room to draw.

 

Now, ten years on I don't think I can go back to that! I'm much too fond of fountain pens and nice paper. I think I will get a dedicated notebook to use for my tarot discoveries (I'm planning to take a psychological path) separate from my general bullet journal. 

 

However I may have to rethink this depending on how many notes I take - I only tend to get 2-3 months out of a 220 page journal when I'm not doing tarot notes, so I may have to switch to something more affordable in future.

 

Thanks for the thread though, it's nice to think about how I'm going to record my journey 🙂

 

smittenkitten 🐱

[ilweran]

I like Paperblanks notebooks, though recently I bought a couple of Peter Pauper notebooks which were lovely (They have some with art on the cover by Stephanie Law 😍). I also have stuff in my Greenwood Journal here on TT&M and I have piles of stuff in my Google Drive.

 

And I also use https://writer.bighugelabs.com/welcome for, well, just typing whatever comes into my head.

[Zoe]

Hello everyone. I've just joined the forum after reading it for a while. I've got a gold and black booklet that I use as a journal. I had it printed with gold foil on the outside cover and uncoated paper for the inner pages. My friend had a similar one printed for meditation, so she had the left pages with positive affirmations and the right hand side was for her notes. She designed hers by taking photos of her own illustrations and saving the photo as a pdf file for the printing firm to print and staple together.