Early in this year, I decided to start keeping track of my daily cards. Now, being the curious sort that I am? I would -love- to track all the cards I pull for myself throughout the year, but that project is just a little bit too much for me to handle. So, I settled for tracking my Card of the Day.
In the past when I’ve done this, I’ve used journals or graphs on graph paper, or little graphics in Photoshop where I fill in the circles, etc. It doesn’t really give me a lot of information, though, just looks cool. Because of that, I invariably fall of on the tracking and it ends up forgotten in a corner somewhere.
This year, I created a Tarot Card of the Day Tracker in Notion. Now, keep in mind? I am not that great at databases, spreadsheets, and all that sort of shit. There was a LOT of trial and error, and to be honest? It doesn’t do -everything- that I want it to do. (I’m still trying to tinker with it now and then with my super novice skill levels.)
This allows me to track different aspects of my practice, such as looking at the stats by suit, showing me which suits I pull more of than others throughout the year. I can change the dates to look at months or other portions of the year as well if I like.
It also allows me to see stats by number. In other words, how many cards of each number value I’ve pulled. With this I can see that I pulled a great number of Fives, Eights, and Kings. I can extrapolate from that that a big part of this year I was in need of extra support (that’s the focus of my COTD, after all) in the areas of conflict, stability, moderation, and leadership.
By sorting the stats by individual card, I can also see which cards I pulled most often, and those I pulled the least. In this graph, for example, I can clearly see that my least pulled card this year was the Four of Swords and Knight of Swords, all the other 76 cards got pulled at least twice throughout the year. The Eight of Pentacles, Five of Cups, and Queen of Wands were each pulled a total of nine times, the most out of any of the other cards in the deck.
As a whole, I’m pretty happy with this. And, because I like to look at pictures, I also added views that allow me to look back on the images of the cards pulled each day, as well as an included “deck gallery” for the decks I used in my daily card practice.
So, what would I change?
Not a lot. I’d like to see some sort of full year view in a layout similar to the 2021 Calendar view I did in the past. I’d also like to be able to add future years to the views for each of the stats pages. That way I could keep up the results of 2025 on display, with the new graph for each view also on the page for comparison (perhaps one above the other). I’ve not quite figured this stuff out yet. (Any Notion wizards out there that want to help? I’m not adverse to help!) 💀
Twisting the Leaf 