How to use IFTTT to automate your online life

July 22, 2013

You may think of the Web as a big tubular mesh of interconnectedness, but really, apps and sites tend to be more like islands than Kumbaya-singing cooperative circles. Evernote doesn't seamlessly save your notes to Dropbox. The Facebook photos you're tagged in don't automatically post to your Flickr account. Articles you save in Feedly don't push themselves to Pocket for later reading. As explained below, IFTTT changes all that, bringing your various Web-service ingredients together into a smart, automatic, and, above all else, connected Internet stew. Yes, IFTTT makes the Web both scrumptious and ridiculously powerful, and we're going to show you how to brew up some deliciously useful recipes, as well as highlight some awesome IFTTT tasks that others have already created. If this, then that—what it is The secret sauce is foretold in the name: IFTTT is short for "If this, then that," and the core building blocks of the service are based around that simple, cause-and-effect relationship. A trigger event happens, and a resulting action occurs. One example of a potential recipe: If you like a photo on Instagram, then IFTTT automatically saves that photo to the Dropbox folder of your choosing. You get the idea. Before you start dabbling in recipes, however, you'll have to head over to IFTTT.com to create an account and connect some channels to that account. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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