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That is, frankly, a great idea!

On my screen, the thing you referenced is in a "Privately" box. Everyone else, please look at this post: https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/33995/?p=1684335#p1684335 Do any of you see a paragraph at the bottom that starts with the words, "That should be fine"?

I personally think that secrecy (related to narrative, not dice) is overrated. 5e is not a game designed around secrets. The best 5e role-play experience I've had at the table were when our characters had secrets between them, but we as players knew everything are role-played accordingly.
Nevertheless I confirm and commit to keep in secret everything DM will ask me to and by default answer with a private note to private note and roll secretly when asked to.

P.S. If you prefer "roll behind DM screen" as a DM you could do all your rolling with physical dice on your table and and only share the narrative with players.

I believe I owe you an apology, @Dipper. I did not see a private box around what you sent, but may not mean it wasn't. Which is confusing.

Okay, I got clarification from The Powers That Be. Apparently when you do private, it does not put the text in a box or distinguish it in any meaningful way. The reason is actually pretty cool - it's so that I can mess with you guys and put things into my posts that you have no idea no one else saw. This is pretty awesome because, when I did the god information stuff, I reposted it multiple times to prevent people from knowing they were getting information about the same god, but apparently I didn't need to do that, because you don't see each other's names.

The reason I did not know it worked that way is because, as DM, it puts everyone's private messages in a box for me so that I see everything going on in the forum.

Now the existence of a note field makes a lot more sense - for those times when you WANT it to be in a box. And apparently if I'm concerned about others being aware of the existence of the box, I just put the note field inside a private field. ;)

OOOOooooh. That is cool. I mean, if you're a depravedly wicked DM, I mean. Of course. Nevermind. /me whistles innocently.

nope

I could see you guys using that with each other as well. Perhaps one of you whispers something to another, or gives someone a look surreptitiously. You can make it look absolutely clean on your screens, and since I'm aware of it, I can roll Perception for everyone else and only make the people who pass the threshold informed.

(Side note, I don't suppose it much matters to you guys, but I don't believe in Passive Perception or any other passive skills in PbP. The spirit of it, far as I can tell, was to not have a physical die roll at the table tip people off to things, and in PbP that's a nonissue because you can't see me rolling anyway. So for better or for worse, you always get rolls. And then if you ask for/make rolls on top of the one I made for you, I just go with whichever one is higher, so it's like you give yourselves advantage by consciously being on the lookout.)

Now that we know that nothing is private from YOU, oh mighty DM, that should afford us a bit of freedom.