I recently discovered what appears to be the best yet simplest way to keep a to-do list: a GitHub Gist. How the Heck Do I Use GitHub? Read More This post originally appeared on Carl Sednaoui's blog.

All gists are Git repositories, and GitHub Gist makes it easy to share them. You can search Gist for public gists by topic, programming language, forked status, and starred status.

The sender composes their love note in a secret GitHub gist, either as a text message or a binary image, and updates the gist.