Privacy on Blogger: How to Hide your Posts

I was complaining earlier about the complications of making a post private or protected on Blogger. My definition of private is only you can see the post, and my definition of protected is only some people can see the post.

Google Gets Privacy Right...

Google is getting privacy settings for individual items right with every other Google Product: in Youtube, you can choose if you want specific people, only people with the link, or only you to be have access to the video. On Google Documents, same as Youtube, you can choose if you want whoever has the link, only certain people, or just you can view the document.

But Google Doesn't want to be Perfect...

However, in Blogger, making your posts private is complicated. There is no option to have a 'private' link to your posts as with every other Google product item. If you want only you to have access to your posts, you have to make an entire blog that only you have access to. If you want only certain people to read your blog posts, you have to make a entire new blog that allows access to certain, specific people.

Easy Way Out...

I just discovered that if you want to save a post for yourself or hide a post that you've accidentally posted, all you have to do is go to that post and click 'Save as Draft' and it'll be taken from the public realm and put into your editing dashboard.