This software is designed to provide a searchable database of your I Ching Readings. The practice of keeping any I Ching journal has the benefit of allowing you to look back at your readings, and comparing them with the actual outcome – how the situation eventually unfolded. This has obvious benefits in terms of deepening your understanding of what the I Ching was telling you, and applying this deepened understanding in your current and future practice.
The advantage of this particular software is the manner in which it allows you access your readings. There are search tools to pick out readings with a particular theme, whether this is a keyword in your notes or in the consultation question itself; or whether it involves retrieving all readings with a particular hexagram (and line) present, or readings with hexagrams containing a particular trigram in a specified position. Search results can also be limited by the date range within which they occurred; something which may be useful if you have been keeping your journal for a number of years, and there are many readings in your database. However, please do be aware that there are certain limitations to the keywords search facility - there is more information about this in the section on Keyword Searches (including the paragraph below the screen shot) for more details.