Saving and Organizing Charts in KarmaWheel

A serious Jyotish library can grow to hundreds or thousands of charts. KarmaWheel is built to handle that. This article covers how to save, search, organize, and back up your chart library.

Saving a chart

After calculating a chart, scroll down to the Save Chart card and click Save. The chart appears in the Saved Charts card in the sidebar.

You can attach to each saved chart:

Name (auto-set from what you typed in the Name field on the entry form)
Description / notes — anything you want to remember about this person or chart
Email — if you want to send the report later
Birth city + state + country — automatically captured

Free tier: save up to 10 charts. Pro tier: unlimited.

Saved charts persist on the server, attached to your account. They sync across every device you sign in to — your phone, your laptop, a friend's computer, anywhere.

Loading a saved chart

Click the chart in the sidebar's Saved Charts list. KarmaWheel re-renders it instantly — no need to re-enter birth data. The same chart loads with the same ayanamsha, dasha levels, and all settings it was originally calculated with.

Setting a Default Chart

If there's one chart you look at every time you open KarmaWheel — your own, most likely — set it as your Default Chart:

Save the chart
Find it in the Saved Charts list in the sidebar
Click the small star icon next to it (or the "Set as default" option)

After that, KarmaWheel auto-loads this chart on every fresh sign-in. You skip the entry form entirely.

To change the default later, click another chart's star icon. Only one chart can be the default at a time.

Famous Charts library

Beyond your own saved charts, KarmaWheel includes a Famous Charts library — a curated collection of historical figures, spiritual masters, world leaders, scientists, artists, and mythological/legendary individuals (where dates are documented). Browse it from the sidebar.

This is useful for:

Studying classical examples — see how a Raja Yoga "looks" in a famous king's chart
Practicing your reading skills — pick a chart, read it, then look up the person and check your accuracy
Comparing your chart — synastrize against any famous chart to see compatibility patterns

The Famous Charts library updates over time. Suggestions for additions are welcome via the "Suggest a Feature" link.

Searching across saved + famous charts

For large libraries, the Chart Search / Research feature (Features menu) is invaluable. It searches across both Saved and Famous charts by:

Name — find charts by person
Placements — find charts with, e.g., "Saturn in Capricorn" or "exalted Jupiter in 5th house"
Yogas — find charts with specific yogas (Gajakesari, Pancha Mahapurusha, Raja Yoga, etc.)
Dasha — find charts where someone was/is in a specific Mahadasha during a certain period

This is gold for research. Want to study what "Saturn in 7th from Capricorn" looks like in real lives? Run a placement search and pull up dozens of examples.

Importing from Goravani Jyotish Studio

If you used the original Goravani Jyotish Studio desktop app, you can export your chart library to a TSV (tab-separated values) file from the desktop app and import it into KarmaWheel:

In Goravani Jyotish Studio: File → Export → TSV format
In KarmaWheel: Features → Chart Search / Research → Import TSV
Pick the file
KarmaWheel parses every chart and adds them to your Saved Charts library

The format-detecting importer also accepts other common chart-data formats (CSV with standard columns, vCard-style, plain JSON arrays) — KarmaWheel auto-detects which format you're importing.

If you have Goravani Jyotish Studio data and the import doesn't work cleanly, email [email protected] — we'll help.

Exporting / backing up your library

To download your saved charts as TSV (for backup or migration):

Features → Chart Search / Research → Export TSV
A .tsv file downloads to your computer
This file can be re-imported into KarmaWheel anytime, or imported into other compatible Vedic software

We recommend exporting once a month as a personal backup, even though KarmaWheel keeps server-side backups too.

Organizing tips

For libraries that grow large, a few habits help:

Use the description field — note the relationship ("my brother", "client B's son", "research: Sade Sati 2018-2025"). The Chart Search searches description text.
Use a naming convention — e.g., "Smith, John (1972 client)" rather than just "John". Sort order in the Saved Charts list is by name.
Tag with email field — if you've grouped charts by client, putting the same email on all related charts lets you filter.
Delete what you don't need — KarmaWheel doesn't impose a chart-cap on Pro, but a clutter-free library is easier to scan. Old test charts and one-off lookups don't need to be kept.
Set a default chart — saves a few seconds on every sign-in.