Solo Practice

I think this is pretty wild.  We all know that e-mail is just not really private, either through people forwarding to others, hacking, etc.  We disclaim e-mail's inherent vulnerability in our own retainer agreements yet we want to use e-mail for our own convenience and that of our clients.

Here is a pretty neat, at least on the surface, solution:  Privnote.

Privnote is a web tool that you can use to send private notes over the Internet.

What makes Privnote different from sending a regular email or instant message?

• You get a link to the note, and once that link is clicked the note is destroyed so it can only be seen once. If someone intercepts the link and sees the note before the person who's intended to read it, that person will know that the note has been eavesdropped, and can tell you about it.
• If you want to be notified when your note gets read you can do it by checking the notify box located below then note. Neither email nor instant messaging provides a reliable way to know if, let alone when, your messages are read.
• If you send a note and suddenly regret having done so, you can click the link yourself which will destroy the note and prevent the receiver from reading it.

I like it because if I want to send an e-mail to someone I don't have to be concerned they will forward it to someone else without my permission.  If I have e-mailer's remorse I can finally destroy an e-mail before it's been opened.

Test it out.  Let me know what you think.

(Hat tip to Nicole Black for her Tweet referencing this post.  I would encourage you to read the comments in the post as the creator discusses security issues.)