How to Keep Your Journal Private

I've had my journal read and privacy violated one too many times. My neice showed me that after you write your entry online (I keep mine in my email as a secondary fail safe) go to google language translator and then the name of the languge you want...the instructions should be there. You can reverse the process as well. Good luck.

I always embed mine in six feet of fast curing concrete.

I booby trap mine with a pipe bomb that has razors and nails inside. J/K

What is this commedy night or payback for all my lame jokes? You two are just so funny tonight but you did make my soda come out my nose! Baha ha tee he

Mwuah, mwuah, mwuah....

My work here is done!!

Seriously though, I keep it in a very safe place that even if someone came looking they wouldn't be able to find it. Plus, I don't make it common knowledge that I keep any type of journal.

NuckingFutz:

For boring reasons that I will not go in to I stopped journaling after about #25 journal.....I like your solution to lack of privacy....I will try it.

When I was journaling I was using Microsoft Word. When you save there is an option to add a password.

Hi NF, I once experimented briefly with another (not Google) free translator; a friend was studying in Russia and posting large chunks of her (friends-only, not private) journal in Russian. The problem, of course, was that it translated only into broken English and (I'm pretty sure) equally broken Russian. if I tried going back and forth a few times, the result became more and more degraded.

Here's your post after one round trip to Russian with the free translator:And after a second round trip:So depending on your choice of translator and language, what you write may or may not be recognizable when decoded.

I guess there's also a risk that someone who found your journal might figure out the language and get their own translation.

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I once noticed a bumper sticker on a parked car in what appeared to be Swedish. I jotted it down and showed it to a friend who I knew understood some Danish. She and another friend put their heads together for 5 minutes and came up with a reasonable-sounding translation quite different from what I'd envisioned. It turned out to be an off-color joke.

I don't have any problems with privacy but when I finish a journal (usually takes a couple years) I read through it again and take notes in the first few pages of my new journal and then destroy the old one. Three quarters of my ramblings are just complaints or mundane stuff that I don't need to keep. I just find the ideas I still like or note dates I started something I'm still working on, etc.

When I wasn't keeping a paper journal but was online 75% of my time because I was going to school, I kept a large, blank, "sketch" book next to me so I could take notes/find my place, etc. when I was working online. It had passwords and hotel reservations, etc., LOL in addition to ideas for papers and what I was thinking and lists. Became a sort of journal, the best sort I love with drawings and words every which way. I didn't worry about that being read or bothered since it was such a mishmash and not very interesting to anyone but me.

I must be an odd duck because ya know I would welcome someone reading my journals. I have been journalling off and on for many years. I have a trunk full of them in my living room. People know it is full of journals along with old photos but not once has anyone looked at them. Maybe they are respecting my right to privacy but seriously I think they just couldn't care less.

I also have journals scattered around the house. One in my office. One in my bedroom and usually one in the living room. Anyone could pick them up at any time but never has it happened.

lol... maybe that's the trick if you don't want anyone to read them then leave them in plane view and the mystery will be gone.

I would be utterly humiliated if someone read my journal. Ag, the things I say to myself are definitely not for anyone else to ever read.