Girls Only Secret Diary and More

Secret Diary comes with other useful features, such as an appointment calendar and address book. It allows users to make personalized stationery for sending letters to friends or family members. Diary pages can be likewise decorated with various borders, and a host of small, decorative graphics is available for further personalization. These function like stickers--you pull them off a strip to the left of the paper and stick them anywhere you like. The graphic options make for a pleasing emphasis on creating a diary that is visually appealing as well as a repository for written thoughts.

On the down side, Girls Only Secret Diary ignores one fundamental aspect of the diary writer's experience--the joy of reading old entries, years later, and rediscovering past trials and successes. Diary text is not easily exported or backed up to another format (such as a text file). The diary's contents are thus vulnerable to a catastrophic hard-drive crash, a virus, or even the replacement of an old computer--situations where diary data could be irretrievable. A user's best option for hanging on to their writings, then, is to print out every single page.

However, the sheer enjoyment of creating attractive and colorful diary pages may make this drawback worth enduring--if you can just find a place to hide those pages once they're printed! --Alyx Dellamonica

Amazon.com Product Description
This software contains tools to help organize a busy girl's life. The Secret Diary comes with a password-locked journal to record secret thoughts for posterity. Every entry page can be personalized--a digital A to Z of all her friends and family members. She can make stationery uniquely hers and use it to write letters on the computer or print designs for later use. Special technology creates secret messages she can print in color. Only she and her closest friends with the special decoder can read it. (Ages 7 and older)

I used this diary wonderfully for two years--two years!--when I realized I couldn't copy and paste into Word, or somehow retrieve it. In five to ten years, that program won't be working and those TWO YEARS of my life...fully documented (10 a month at least) will be gone. I now have to print out every one of those pages...what a waste of paper! It's a wonderful wonderful program. But if you actually want to READ your diary 10 years from now...just look elsewhere. It's not worth it...


The Best   August 15, 2000
 25 out of 25 found this review helpful

This product is the best software for girls. This organizes telephones, adresses events. The best thing about this is that it saves your diary enteries with a password and in a secert code. So even if someone does know the password they cant read it. The down part about this prouduct is that if the software gets deleted all your files are erased because it doesn;t save your files on your computer wich is why I took away a star and wich is why they ask u to print all your files just in case.