Why it does not reshuffle
The card is derived from the date alone, so it is the same on your phone and your laptop, and the same at midnight as at noon. That is deliberate. The value of a daily card comes entirely from having to sit with the one you got.
If you want a different card, the one-card spread is a shuffle away and is the honest place to do it.
Making it a practice
The usual method is to look in the morning and write one line in the evening about whether it described anything. After a month the useful thing is not the hit rate but the vocabulary: you start to have your own sense of what each card means, which is what actually makes readings work.
Reversals are included, since a card of the day that never turns up inverted throws away half the deck.
What it is not
It is not a horoscope and it is not tailored to you; everyone drawing today gets the same card. It is a prompt for attention rather than a statement about your day, and the difference matters if you are inclined to read the difficult cards as bad news.
Keeping a record without an app
The simplest method is a notebook with the date, the card and one line. No system, no spreadsheet, no attempt to score accuracy. What builds up over a few months is a personal glossary, and it will differ from any published one in ways that turn out to matter.
Readers who have kept one for a year almost always report the same thing: a handful of cards that reliably mean something specific to them, and a handful they still cannot read at all. Both are useful to know before attempting a ten-card spread.
What this reading is and is not
The cards are drawn by a random number generator seeded once per reading. There is no server, no account and no record of your question; the whole draw is rebuilt from the number in the address bar, which is why the link reopens the same cards.
What a spread does well is give a structured way to look at a situation you already know something about. It is a prompt, not a source of information, and nothing here should be used in place of medical, legal or financial advice.
Questions people ask about this
Why can I not shuffle for a different card?
Because a card of the day you can redraw is not a card of the day. The draw is derived from the date alone, so it is the same on every device and the same all day. The constraint is where the value is: one card cannot be argued with the way a large spread can, and having to sit with it is the exercise.
How long does it take?
A minute in the morning and a minute in the evening. Look at the card, note what it seems to be pointing at, and write one line later about whether it described anything. Anything longer usually means you are trying to make the card fit.
Is the card reversed sometimes?
Yes, and reversals cannot be switched off here, since a daily card that never turns up inverted throws away half the range of the deck. A reversed card is read as the same theme blocked, internalised or overdone rather than as its opposite.
Everyone gets the same card. Does that not defeat the purpose?
Only if you expect the card to be about you specifically, which it is not. It is a prompt for attention, the same way a word of the day is. What differs between readers is what the card catches on, and that is the part worth writing down.
Can I link to a particular day's card?
Every reading on this site rebuilds exactly from its own link, because the shuffle is a seeded random number generator rather than anything stored on a server. That means you can keep a link, come back to it later, or send it to someone and know they see the same draw.
I want to ask about something specific. Is this the right page?
No. The daily card answers nothing, because it was drawn before you had a question. For a question use the one-card spread, which shuffles fresh, or a three-card spread if the answer needs more than a single image.