Anonymous wrote:You could get a cheap laptop and not connect it to the interwebs. Or save your writing to an sd card.

Do you want to be able to go back and read them? Any reason why you don't want to use a paper journal?

You could always write your pages to get your feelings out, then shred them.

I would love to use a paper journal. My main reason for wanting it to be private is because sometimes when in a dark mood I like to vent through my writing, and I've been on a journey of self discovery that includes writing as therapy. However, not everything I write is pretty, and I remember my husband reading his mother's journal after she died and there were things that no child should know about their parents' thoughts and feelings. I guess I want to make sure that if something happens to me, that my children wouldn't be able to see my thoughts that I dealt with in my life and my healing journey. I've dealt with depression my whole life, it has affected my life and my life decisions, it has affected my children on some level, and I don't want to worry about them hearing all of my feelings at some point in the future.

I hope that makes sense. I love my children and don't want to hurt them by having them know how low I've felt in my life. But I also need to be able to write as it helps me process things I'm dealing with.

Password protected Word .docx on an encrypted thumb drive.

Nothing connected to the internet is truly private, but I’m not interesting enough for anyone to care.

Unless I become the victim of a Dateline crime in which case I trust them to quote only my funniest DCUM posts.

You could get a cheap laptop and not connect it to the interwebs. Or save your writing to an sd card.

Do you want to be able to go back and read them? Any reason why you don't want to use a paper journal?

You could always write your pages to get your feelings out, then shred them.

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Anonymous wrote:I would think that, logically, writing all of this down online somewhere would be the absolute worst way to ensure it is kept private. If you dont want to just physically write on paper with a pen, then make an offline Word document that is password protected.

OP here...not sure how to do that, but I've heard someone say it before. I will look into that, thanks.

1. With the Word document open, select the File tab at the top left corner.
2. Next scroll down and select Info from the navigation pane on the left.
3. From the Info section select Protect Document
4. Select Encrypt with Password.

Anonymous wrote:Save it to your iCloud
My kid lost access to their iCloud because they couldn’t verify themselves. Apple was no help.

iCloud is very secure SMH

And yet we are seeing all Hunter Biden crap from his icloud somehow.

Anonymous wrote:Save it to your iCloud
My kid lost access to their iCloud because they couldn’t verify themselves. Apple was no help.

iCloud is very secure SMH

LOL this is sadly so true!

Save it to your iCloud
My kid lost access to their iCloud because they couldn’t verify themselves. Apple was no help.

iCloud is very secure SMH

Anonymous wrote:I would think that, logically, writing all of this down online somewhere would be the absolute worst way to ensure it is kept private. If you dont want to just physically write on paper with a pen, then make an offline Word document that is password protected.

OP here...not sure how to do that, but I've heard someone say it before. I will look into that, thanks.

Anonymous wrote:Do you need to save what you write? For years I've used writing as a therapeutic coping mechanism. but after I get it out, I delete it.

OP here...good idea

Penzu but I don’t know how secure it is.

Just register for a throwaway email address and write letters to yourself. Never write down the pw.

Do you need to save what you write? For years I've used writing as a therapeutic coping mechanism. but after I get it out, I delete it.

I would think that, logically, writing all of this down online somewhere would be the absolute worst way to ensure it is kept private. If you dont want to just physically write on paper with a pen, then make an offline Word document that is password protected.

Title says it all. Anyone know of a private online journal where I can write to my heart's content, secure in the knowledge that if anyone gets access to my computer they would never be able to read anything I wrote? Does such a thing even exist? I tried DayOne, but now I'm hearing that anyone can access it because it's backed up somewhere? It's a shame because sometimes you just need to vent and I wouldn't ever want people to read some of the things I write when I'm venting or sad or depressed.