/lit/ - Literature

>>19266953
Hide it in your cumrag

>>19266953
Maybe do not be such a faggot so that if someone flips through it there will be cool shit in it instead of upper class american girl bullet journal nonsense
My journal is densely packed with pure undiluted schizo rants

kill anyone that finds your journal and then as a bonus you'll have something interesting to journal about

When you guys journal, do you handwrite or use those scribbles to jot thoughts down faster?

>>19267004
What about if they find it after I die?

>>19267211
Just write in cursive and this will block 99.5% of people from trying to read your diary

some sort of encoded digital diary. i use standard notes.

>>19266953
Wrap it in the dust jacket of some philosophy book, nobody ever reads those willingly.

Write in another language. Write in another script.

>>19266953
Write with a cipher.

Don't have relationships with anyone

>>19266953
1. rub it in their nose and act like a wannabe poet till they get sick of it (except if they are schizo, then they will want more, although that is an avenue in itself); use metaphors and shit
2. just regularly hide it (in an air duct or a pillow or something) and ask Jesus and/or some Saints or Angels or Spirits to guard it, maybe place a TABU on it. TABU's were used in africa where they had cases but had no locks... so they just placed an arbitrary object on it and called it TABU so nobody could touch it; anyway, ignore me, i'm from /x/ meow meow
3. use a safety deposit box in a bank or a lockbox in a train station (if available in your country)
4. just have it on you at all times. maybe sew a secret pocket in your shitty backpack nobody would steal
5. use a small laptop to write it (like Eee pc or smth like that) and save it on an USB stick you always wear on a chain around your neck or something
>>19267711
writing in another language changes the structure of your thoughts, OP gives the impression he/she wants to live more than write
>>19267004
this would be my #1 recommendation too; the rest is just dressing on the cake

If you're really that desperate you could develop a code like Pepys did. The easier option is to just live on your own and keep your journal out of obvious sight, though.

>>19267211
You want them to find it after you die. That's why the texts have to be good.

>>19268367
>live on your own and keep your journal out of obvious sight
Nice Try, FBI
Not Today, CIA
Dirty tricks, MI6
Good Attempt at Obscurity, Department of Homeland Security

>>19268375
any private text is good 500 years after you're dead

>>19268379
The glowies aren't going to sneak into your house and read your lamentations on tfw no gf, anon.

>>19268385
you underestimate their boredom, anon.
that's why i didn't imply it's a bad thing
OP should bore neither glowies nor the Lord

>>19266991
>>19268359
>>19267004
>"hey what's this? Kinda cool book don't you thi--"
>opens journal
>immediately blinded and driven insane by schizo lore runes
>assassinated shortly thereafter
>unleashed guardian demons drags soul into hell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_curse

>>19268402
>monasteries stealing books from each other
thanks for the refresher anon

>>19266953
Nigga, I tried it once and my half sister found it.

I was inspired by The Runaway's Diary by Marilyn Harris.

The bitch read the whole fucking thing and acted like she casually came upon it and read it as a mistake. Never again.

>>19266953
Buy a safe with a code

>>19268468
if they have physical access to the safe, they could just remove it... or if bolted to the floor, crack it for lulz
but yeah, a safe that costs at least a few hundred $ and has an electrick lock (keypad) is probably unbreakable unless stolen or destroyed

write it in latin

>>19266953
Get one of those fake tooth caps that the cia put cyanid in to kill themselves if caught, but instead of cyanid, put in a small raspberry pi computer or ultra compact flash drive (16 gb should be more than adequate, multiply that by 6 molars gets you 96 Gigabits of storage!).

This way you will always have your diary on your person and when you need to write stuff down pop out the cap and plug it into your phone.

However, imo It’s best to only have 5 flashcaps, and save one molar for an actual cyanide pill, just in case someone does a deep cavity search and steals one of your flash drives. This way you can kill yourself before someone embarrassed you by reading your tooth journal.

>>19266953
Learn an English shorthand, or an alternative English alphabet. I doubt any normal person would know shorthands or alternative alphabets. It'll prevent people from just understanding your writing at first glance, unless they're journalists, cryptographers, or linguists, but do note that a person trying their hardest to steal and decode your journal will eventually understand it, unless you're using some obscure Voynich-like alphabet.

I am an apostate in a traditionalist Muslim family. I hide my journal in a box like this and the keys are always with me.

>t.

>>19270018
Dude you should absolutely move it to an encrypted file and get rid of the physical version. You can force a lock like that in 2 seconds.

>>19268402
>In your throat a botfly her eggs will drop
>And when the wormlets your eyes will pop
>Curious friend, you'll wish you didn't read this journal
>as Devil drags you into torment eternal
In calligraphy like this, including the little hearts

People have kept journals even when the thoughts in them could literally get them killed. Surely you can tolerate the off chance of someone laughing at your silly observations.

>>19266953
Write it in a dead language

>>19266991
share a page

>>19266953
Just use pgp

>>19270165
This, I write mine in English

>>19270018
wh0re, may Allah's sword find you soon

>>19268359
>Eee pc
I haven't thought about these in forever. Do they still exist? I assumed modern smartphones made them obsolete.

Writing in code is the best way to keep your cringe journal entries from your mother when she finds you after you tightened the belt just a little bit more this time.

>>19266953
You live alone, who is supposed to find it?

>>19270018
nigga anyone can smash that shit open, is so many ways they can even chose how, and when they find this will be you death note. May God bless you Insha'Allah!

>>19270018
Yeah you can fuck this lock open as fast as i can do the jetpack cheatcode in GTA SA for ps2. Wanna know how fast? Just give me the controller.

>>19270093
reminded me of that muslim terrorist (or terrorism suspect, google went to shit in the last few months) who had 3 personalities, or in any case just wrote a very rich and deep journal from three perspectives... glowies pored over it for years, including torture, believing that there was some hidden stuff in the journal
tl;dr even silly observations can get you "killed," given the appropriate political climate

>>19270358
>I assumed modern smartphones made them obsolete.
They did
If you want to write on your phone, there are plenty of encrypted diary apps with a passcode, some of them open source too on f-droid.
Get a cheap plastic stand and an "on-the-go USB adapter", then you can plug an actual full size keyboard to your phone provided it's somewhat recent (no ancient PS2 shit with an adapter). If you don't have a PC this is the cheapest way to get an encrypted electronic journal up and running.
Not my picture but this is how it works.

>>19270358
>Do they still exist?
i have no idea but was thinking these days how much i would like a portable device that had a decent keyboard (pic related... which ironically has bigger keys than the Eee pc)

>>19266991
>>19270236
Mine is too, maybe I will share a page

>>19270544
if you go this route, just get one of those wireless keyboards with touchpad included. much cleaner.
also maybe you can enlarge the fonts so you can only see 4-5 words in two-three lines of texts. partially solves the issue of the tiny screen

>>19270093
I have low self-esteem so I don't like being laughed at.

>>19270550
just get a bluetooth keyboard for the phone, there's a logitech one that is ultra slim and kind of expensive ($40+) but it's really portable
this solution here is what I advised because cable, phone stand (you probably have one already) and keyboard together would set you back $20 at best, and if you write at home it's a much more comfortable setup

>>19266953
>>19266991
>>19267004
>>19268379
>>19270544
I keep my journal in other people's heads. I tell them what I think and they can never forget its shocking or honest nature.

>>19270719
I appreciate your help and indeed your solution seems to be the best in the current world technological market.
The man advantage of the phone is the integrated screen
For a permanent-but-portable solution, one could also consider something like a Raspberry Pi:
1. you can buy a tiny screen for it... but it also works on ANY screen you have handy, including a TV
2. bluetooth/radio touchpad keyboard like mentioned
3. you can store stuff on a regular USB stick (or the SD card you can easily take out)
4. you can just throw it in a cardboard box when not in use, nobody would look at it twice

Any good apps for keeping a jounal? Microsoft word is shit

>>19266953
I recently began journaling by recording myself speaking. Just on my phone for know but I want to get one of those detective style clicky recorders. I was surprised at how uncomfortable it made me feel at first, and then I was surprised by how quickly I got used to it. It's a nice way to improve your ability to spontaniously communicate verbally.

>>19270828
if you want a word processor, openoffice.org (do not confuse with LibreOffice, the glowie imposter)
if not, check out Notepad++; it once lost a text document of mine, quite literally it just disappeared, but fortunately it keeps backups in his home directory so keep that in mind
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ haven't tried it but appreciate the philosophy and used something similar in the past (now I just use Word lol)
i am open to suggestions too

>>19270880
>now I just use Word lol
Word 2010, maybe I should have mentioned it. went to shit after this version; 2003 is also a good version, it can basically do everything; only one version came out between 2003 and 2010, namely 2006, but I haven't worked with that

>>19270818
There are raspberry pi mini computers but they're expensive, and you probably already have a phone
If you are paranoid you can get an open source app (and you should because closed source diary apps will indeed spy on you) from f-droid. any computer will have telemetry, even linux at this point, it's almost impossible to use a completely unpozzed computer unless you want to go full Snowden or write by hand. But IMO if you're more afraid of people IRL finding your stuff than Google selling your data, you're still better off going digital.

>>19270828
I highly recommend Joplin. It's a markdown wiki that allows encryption.

>>19271021
>almost impossible to use a completely unpozzed computer unless you want to go full Snowden or write by hand
raspberry pi will connect the internet if it has no WiFi installed (e.g. Raspberry Pi 2) or what? i do not comprende
>afraid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxxyVuPJ3sk

>>19271132
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>>19270818
You are the greatest Faggots conceivable. Just use a pen and paper. Nobody will trace you, nobody will spy on you, you have your full concentration and introspection, not like while staring into the blue glow of a soulless device. If you don't, use a typewriter or pc before 1990. It really is that simple

>>19271148
I was replying to
>>19270828
>>19270550
>>19270358
and giving them info
Today I use pen and paper.
There is a case here who is risking a lot by writing on a physical journal, here >>19270018

>>19271184
>>19271148
>pen & ink
>typewriter
>pc before 1990
https://www.boredpanda.com/most-hipster-images-ever/

>>19271236
>being a hipster for wanting to have a physical book that I can feel, smell and write my feelings into, because the soullessness of digital media is so attractive for expressing your deepest feelings

>>19271236
lmao imagine thinking someone's a hipster for using a pen, anon you are completely broken

I have written lot of fantasy themed scenarios and encounters at work based on daydreams, few lucid dreams during night shift and random ideas based on songs.
I've written two little notebooks full.

>>19271253
>>19271263
>not dictating to your secretary, then printing it on archival paper with archival ink, and when enough pages are done, have one of your lovely pets bind it

>>19271383
what is this reply supposed to accomplish?

>>19270817

b-b-b-based!

>>19266953
You can send yourself messages on whatsapp, thats what i do

>>19272484
you write your fucking diary by texting it to Zuckerberg?

>>19272492
Ye, I hope he reads it

>>19272484
i used discord for a while. didn't use it for anything else

>>19272515
lol this is even worse, why are you zoomers like that?

>>19272523
it's extremely easy to sign up for and use. i can make a new account in like 30 seconds and set everything up in 30 more seconds

I only write in my journal/diary when I'm at a real low point, I treat it like a distraction. Here's an entry of when I was starving at University with no friends. Please don't bully me, I wrote it after not having a proper meal for 6 days and not having slept in 32 hours. I edited out a name because I fear the idea of someone aware of me reading this and connecting the dots. As unlikely as it is. Most of my entries are me being a loser, walking around the woods at night or being a lunatic covering myself in gasoline:


Starving, dying, wasting away. It had been three days since I had anything to eat on Thursday the twenty-seventh when I received a call from my mother. At the time I was lying in bed around eleven at night, trying to ignore the phone call [name], whom I have not interacted with again in over a week, was taking in the hallway—it sounded like he was talking to his mother, talking about his course; it was a length conversation—when my phone rang. Both my parents could hear, and commented on, the weakness in my voice, where I confessed I hadn’t eaten for two days. In reality, it had been closer to four, and even before my forced fast I had scarcely eaten much, often having no more than a single sandwich or pouring honey onto my tongue until it was raw from the sweetness. I remember an old fable I once read where woodland creatures were forced to drink honey because a selfish fox kept spring where water flowed freely hidden. My parents expressed their worry, my father told me he, ‘didn’t want a repeat of last year.’
Feeling my body weakening I knew this couldn’t go on. The whole week I had been idle and vegetate, doing precious little other than waking at some irregular hour and dallying on my computer: I didn’t attend lectures, as I found the information for when they were or what they required of me confusing; I didn’t go to any of the clubs or societies’ taster days because I found the process confusing at least and tedious at most.
‘You can do it,’ my mother told me. After hanging up I stayed in bed for a few more hours until four, before the sun rose and got ready. I made one of my French omelettes, which turned out better than many of my others, just to hold me over. The plan was to go into town, eat a large breakfast and do some much-needed shopping. Leaving my room around eight I ran into one of my flatmates whom I bumped into only once before—a tall Indian or Sri Lankan looking guy with glasses. I got his name wrong and told him I was going into town.

>>19272530
>it's extremely easy to sign up for and use. i can make a new account in like 30 seconds and set everything up in 30 more seconds
why is this a reason to choose an application that is completely unfit for writing long form? are you a terminal cancer patient? do you know it's absolutely no difference if it takes you 2 minutes or 5 minutes to set up a proper application that will work much better and create proper files?
Jesus Christ this mindset is why the world is completely bonkers

>>19272369
>what is this reply supposed to accomplish?

>>19272684
like what

>>19272758
like a text editor...

Make a blogspot site for it

>>19272745
You are arguing as if using a pen to write were something anachronistic, which is incredibly stupid. It isn't even old-fashioned to write in a paper journal but simply a preference. You don't have to do everything on your telephone you stupid zoomer.

>>19270024
I miss her so much bros...

>>19272991
>being this much of an inkwell
I like pens; anachronisms can be hot
go out and eye your phone less, it already started melting your brain

>>19272484
>>19272515
this is like something a dumbass old lady would do because no one explained to her what a text file is. zoomers fucking their own brains up with smartphones until they're less tech literate than their own grandmas is the funniest thing

>mydiary.org.gpg

>>19266953
put it in your prison wallet
HOOP THAT SHIT

>>19268635
>unless you're using some obscure Voynich-like alphabet.
If the language is known, it can be decoded no matter how strange the writing system. The only truly hidden writing is digitally encrypted or an invented language that you leave no information about. It is impossible to reconstruct what is only in your mind unless the language is a relexification or strongly influenced by another language (and so the language may be reconstructed to some degree and a meaningful interpretation gleaned).

>>19266953
Hide it in your balls lmfao

>>19266991
>My journal is densely packed with pure undiluted schizo rants
based

>>19266991
>t.