An astrology journal that keeps the sky beside what you wrote

What an entry holds

An entry is what happened, on a date whose precision is stated — an exact time if you know it, a part of the day if you know that, otherwise midday and a note that it is approximate. You can tag it with the Areas of life it touched, from a list of fifteen — work, money, relationships, family, health, home and so on — and with an event type from a dozen offered, and you can rate its impact from one to five, where one is minor and five is major. Five state axes are offered on fixed scales: mood from minus three to plus three, and energy, strain, clarity and agency each from one to seven; you can add axes of your own, also one to seven. An axis you leave blank stays blank. Nothing is filled in for you, because a midpoint you did not choose would be a value nobody wrote.

Beneath the text sit the contacts active that day — one line per timescale, the slow-moving outer-planet contacts kept apart from the fast ones so the same three outer planets do not head every entry you ever write — each with where this day falls in that contact’s run: the third of five passes on record, say. The sky was computed for that date from your chart; the entry did not have to describe it.

Reading the record back

The Notebook timeline draws the record on the sky’s clock: the one calibrated pressure curve, with its climate and activation layers beneath it, and a mark on every day you wrote. Your own numbers run in lanes under the chart — impact on its one-to-five scale, mood on its own, the seven-point axes on theirs — each lane printing the scale the instrument fixed rather than one fitted to your answers, and each drawing points rather than lines, because two entries seven weeks apart are two entries and a line between them would draw six weeks you never wrote. Markers take the colour of their first Area, and a strip over the Areas and event types dims the marks that do not match instead of removing them, so a filtered view is still seen against the whole record.

A quiet day is its own mark. One tap says there was nothing to write, and that day is stored in its own table as an open ring beside the filled marks of days with entries. It is the denominator a journal never has: without it, a record of eventful days is only a record of eventful days, and nothing can be said about the days between them.

When a contact comes back

Reflection answers the question the record raises first: when does this contact return? For the contacts live in your chart today it computes the next occurrences from the ephemeris and sets them beside the entries you made under the previous ones. The calculator reads a contact at three widths — the exact pair of points, the pair of planets, then the house — and applies two guards before it calls anything a return: an interval under a week is a rhythm, not a return, and a contact present for more than half the record never left. The astronomy is complete on the first day; the record catches up at the pace you write, which is why the dates lead and the entries follow.

What the notebook refuses to claim

The timeline shows the record and makes no claim about it: no rate, no percentage, no correlation, no list ranked by effect. That is a choice, not an omission. A self-selected record of the days you chose to write about cannot support those numbers, and a page that printed them anyway would be reading a pattern into a sample with no denominator. The quiet days are the beginning of a denominator; the rest is a longer record than any product should pretend to shortcut.

The daily check-in

Alongside the notebook runs a deliberately separate instrument. Once a day you rate yesterday on two or three dimensions you chose and named yourself, on a one-to-seven scale, in under a minute — before the page shows you anything about that day. Only the previous day can be rated, a rating is never edited, a skipped day stays skipped, and the dimensions are fixed once chosen; the server enforces all of it. Nothing analytical is shown until sixty days have been rated. The series exists so that the forecast can one day be tested against a record that was not taken with the forecast in view.

Trying it

Writing, tagging, quiet days, the timeline and the check-in are free. Reflection’s recurrence cards and the sky snapshot saved with every entry are part of Pro. An Evidence Review page keeps the timing-window feedback you have given — yes, partly, no, not sure — in one place.