The diary is a place where you can freely express your ideas and confide your feelings. Writing down your feelings about a problem can be very therapeutic. The best way to make sure no one finds your diary is to first make sure no one sees it. Here are some tips to prevent nosy people from discovering your secrets.
Steps
Method 1 of 2: Hide Your Journal
Step 1. Hide it where no one can find it:
- Create a secret compartment in an old book to hide the diary
- Put it in a jacket hanging in the closet
- Put it in your pillow
- Put it in a tub where people would never look
- Put it in a purse / handbag / old backpack
- Hide it behind your TV or computer
- Hide it under a pile of stuffed animals
- Put it in your underwear drawer
- Hide it in a small space under your desk
- Put it inside a shoebox (make sure you keep your shoes inside too!)
- Hide it inside your computer
- Hide it in the pet carrier
- Put it under your pillow
- If you have a pile of pillows on your bed, you can open one of the covers, hide inside the diary and close it again. Nobody will ever know! But make sure no one sits on it!
- Hide it under a pile of cans you don't usually drink
- If you have a pillowcase that opens, hide the diary inside under the pillow
Step 2. Hide the diary inside the computer.
Most computers have a lot of empty space inside the case and few people would think to look inside. People, and especially parents, are not very tech savvy and may not know that the case can open and that there is space inside. Be sure not to place it in a location that could damage your computer, cause a fire, or block the flow of air that serves to cool the components.
Step 3. Get your diary online
Don't use things like LiveJournal. It doesn't give you the same privacy as creating another email address from which to send diary pages to you or saving them as drafts in your inbox.
Step 4. Tape it under a chair, under the desk, under the table or inside a drawer.
Step 5. Hide it under a movable plank of the wooden floor (excellent solution in old houses)
Step 6. Create a secret compartment in a book and put your diary in it
Step 7. Behave naturally if someone enters your room, as if you have nothing to hide
That way, he won't be tempted to poke around for your diary!
Step 8. Prepare a bait
If someone walks into your room and starts poking around, grab a small notebook, quickly write "My Diary" on it and drop it on the bed. With an excuse he leaves the room. Maybe he or she will read the fake diary without finding anything in particular and leave the room without you having anything to worry about. Add some faux event as if it actually happened, but so that the nosy understands that it is reverie (for example, describe the last beautiful trip you took, or the two years you spent with your adoptive family, or how you rescued a dog from a pond that has now become your best friend). This way he will wonder if the other things you write are true or not and you can tell people that you would like to become a writer and that you are practicing. Later, when you're done with that diary, go back and put aside the pages with the made-up facts before hiding it for good. Famous writer Anais Nin has been doing this for years!
Step 9. Check if there is enough space to fix the diary behind a frame attached to the wall
Nobody looks behind the paintings!
Step 10. Lift a ceiling panel (if possible) and place the diary (or whatever else you want to hide) on a panel next to it
Why would anyone check the ceiling?
Step 11. Put the diary in a newspaper rolled up and put the newspaper near your chair, on a shelf or wherever it might fit normally but discreetly.
A bad idea is to put it on a small table, where it looks like an invitation to be picked up and leafed through.
Step 12. Hide it under a chest of drawers, under the last drawer at the bottom where the floor is
Remember to put the dresser back in place. Some of these have a space between the base and the last drawer, which is why no one will find your diary even if they move the furniture.
Step 13. Find an old box of tissues
Slip the diary inside and cover with a few layers of handkerchiefs. The only problem is that someone could use the tissues and find your diary, so use enough to cover it and replace them if someone uses them.
Step 14. Hide it in an old Bible case
Also put in an old Bible of yours to cover it. It works great!
Method 2 of 2: Disguise Your Journal
Step 1. Disguise the diary by preparing a book cover (make it look like a really boring book, so that no one is tempted to read it)
Then hide it among the other books.
Step 2. Write the diary using a normal school notebook (you can also write some notes on a subject in the first pages) and put it together with the other things for the school
Step 3. Consider other alternatives
If you just can't find an easily accessible place to hide your diary, or if the snoop has already discovered them all, you can:
- Write the diary using abbreviations or a code that only you understand so that even if someone were to find it, they would not know how to read what is written. Keep in mind that virtually any code that isn't generated by a computer can be cracked by someone with enough time and patience. Furthermore, if you use a code that does not resemble normal Italian, you will immediately understand that you have something to hide. After all, the more complex the code, the more complicated it will be to use it to write and the longer it will take to decipher it. The more you practice with your chosen code, the faster it will be to write and reread what you have written.
- An alternative to the previous method is to write the diary in another language, for example Japanese. Greek and Korean are a good shortcut because you will only have to learn the alphabet and not the entire language (Korean and Greek have different characters from Italian but many sounds in common). Choose a language that few people know and / or are interested in (if someone found your diary, you could always say that you are practicing).
- Create your own language or a variation of Italian. The Italian language leaves a lot of space for synthesis. For example, you could omit the definite article and replace it with a symbol. For example use "?" in place of "la" and attach it to the end of a word. In this way "the house" becomes "home?".
- Write the diary on the computer. Write using Microsoft Word or a similar program and block the opening of the document with a password that only you know. Then save it in a folder and also secure this using another password. To hide it even better, save the folder to a location on your computer where hardly anyone would go to look. For example, save the folder with a harmless name like “data3” and put it in a directory like “system utilities” instead of naming it “diary” and saving it in “Documents”.
Step 4. You could try a “Password Journals”
It is an electronic device that opens with the sound of your voice or via a pin code. Once opened, you will have access to a notebook, an LED light, a frame and many other things. The prices are really low for such a technologically advanced object!
Step 5. Hide the diary in an old videotape case and put it together with the others
Step 6. Get a diary with a lock and always carry the key tied around your neck or hide it
Step 7. Instead of a paper journal, you could think of a blog
If you have a video camera and money to spend on tapes, you can record your thoughts aloud.
Step 8. Write your diary as a Word document and protect it with a password
Once the document has been created, to establish the password you have to go to "tools", "options", click on the "protection" tab and type the password twice in the editing fields you will find. Make sure you don't call the document "my diary" but choose an anonymous name like "page 27 homework" or "gsdbasdbgkj."
Step 9. Hide the diary in a bookshelf among the storybooks so that it blends in with them
Step 10. Hide the diary in an old item of clothing and put it in the closet where no one goes to look
Step 11. If you have a computer, look for a boring Wikipedia page, copy and paste it into your diary (after turning it into a word document) and rename the document with the name of that article
Then, just write the diary under the article.
Step 12. The best place to hide a diary on your computer is in the system folder
Open C: / Windows and choose a folder. Nobody will NEVER look in that folder and won't know which of the hundreds there are you hid your diary in.
Advice
- A truly determined person will look behind every painting, lift every plank of the floor and move all the furniture before giving up. A secret code or language is your best weapon if you have such a relative. Prepare a good code and don't reveal it to ANYONE.
- The best time to journal is when you are home alone. You won't run the risk of someone breaking into your room without you knowing because you can hear the front door open or the car pull over before anyone enters the house, so you have plenty of time to hide the diary.
- If your journal is the same size as a hardcover book, remove the book jacket and place it on the journal. Place it on the bookcase where the book used to be.
- If people don't know you keep a diary, they won't even search for it. Don't be too outspoken in writing your diary, nor arrogant that it's secret, interesting, and private.
- If you decide to lock it with a padlock and don't want to wear the key tied around your neck, tape it in an unusual place such as inside one of the bed rails, so that the nosy person will have to put himself exactly in the position where you are. lie down to see it.
- Another great idea is to put the diary inside a clean trash can (such as small bedroom ones) and put the bag on top. Throw some paper in the bag and no one will see your diary (everyone always checks the trash can!).
- If you use Word or Notepad, this is for you! Download the free 7-zip program that will allow you to encrypt your texts / photos with AES 256-bit encryption … practically at the level of the US military! Now your diary is hidden!
- Write in the third person so that if someone finds out they will think you are writing a short story.
- Read the book "Profession? Spy!" by Louise Fitzhugh to find out what to do if some annoying classmate gets hold of your diary. It's not a good thing, but this book will help you deal with it. In addition, Harriet, the protagonist of the book, is very good at keeping a diary.
- If all of these options fail, try a padlocked journal.
- Sometimes the best place to keep a diary is where everyone can see it. Nosy people will be so busy looking for secret hiding places that they won't even notice the book they moved to lift one of the floorboards!
- Another great place to put your virtual diary is on a USB stick. It might be easier to hide than a book.
- Put the diary on your mp3 player! Make sure it's password protected!
- Clear your browser cache. The nosy could search the cache and find all of your hiding places. To know how to do it, read How to Clear Your Browser Cache.
- If you already have a computer, it's not difficult to transfer files, making them hard to find and open. A good place to hide files is in the iTunes folder, Movie Maker folder, or some other place that doesn't look like a hiding place. Also, many adults / parents / snoopers are not very tech savvy, so it will be harder for them to find your diary!
- Use ring binder sheets like the ones you would use at school. They're subtle, they look boring, and they're easy to hide!
Warnings
- Do not lose the diary. Your parents could find it or it could fall into the wrong hands and you would be teased for eternity.
- Never leave your diary lying around just because it has a lock. A really determined person might be able to break it! Many locks are not 100% secure, and even if he can't break it, he may still peek and read something.
- Remember that anyone, including your parents, could find this page through their browser history and thus have a better idea of where to look for your diary, then tease you for eternity and / or reveal yours to the world. secrets. What if he was your worst enemy?
- Write in your diary when no one is around or when you are alone in your room. If you hear someone coming, open a page on the back of the journal and pretend to scribble, do your homework, or write a letter to your boyfriend.
- Never take the diary to school. You can't know who might put their hands in your purse and steal it! Many people may make fun of you just for keeping a journal.
