Got a secret message to share with someone? Check out Privnote.
Privnote (short for Private Notes) is a simple web service for creating web notes that self-destruct or become unavailable as soon as they are read.
Type a text note in the space provided and you’ll be provided with a one-time use hyperlink that you can send over an IM or email message. Once the link is clicked, the associated text note is deleted forever.
There’s a read receipt option if you like to get notified as soon as your web note is opened by the recipient.
PrivNote - If you send a note and suddenly regret having done so, just click the link yourself which will erase the note forever so no one can read it. Thanks Robin Good.
If you like this, do check out temporary e-mails and disposable websites.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/create-secret-web-notes-with-read-receipts/3741/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
Cool service. Although, I wonder how many people have any use for this.
Written by Avinash on 06.30.08
I have to take back what I said. One can receive an email if the person to whom you sent reads your message. However, the message I received was in spanish. Site is in English, but the message is in Spanish. What unprofessional work. Read below the message I received.
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Este es un mensaje automático para avisarle que la nota referida como “” fue leída el 2008-06-30 a las 10:06 por alguien desde la IP 127.0.0.1 (localhost).
¿Quieres enviar otra nota?
link
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Written by Avinash on 06.30.08
This message will disappear after you read it.
Written by Bob Burns on 06.30.08
That’s a nice utility… Much useful to share secret information, but the url security is our prime concern…
Written by Pavan Kumar on 06.30.08
Hi Avinash, I work in the Privnote development team. We tried but were unable to reproduce your problem so far and, because of this, we couldn’t fix it. It would be great if you could send us some information about the browser and language you used, since we don’t keep web server logs for privacy reasons. You can use the contact box at link
Pavan, thanks for your comments. What exactly do you mean by URL security?
Written by Pablo Hoffman on 07.01.08
Well. Just another cool service. Google something that you need and you always end up with something like this
Written by Arun Basil Lal on 07.01.08
Avinash, we were finally able to reproduce the bug with emails in spanish, and so it’s fixed now.
Cheers.
Written by Pablo Hoffman on 07.02.08