How to use IFTTT to automate your social life

How to use

to automate your social life

What is IFTTT?

It stands for,

You pronounce it like “gift” but without the “g”

It is a free web-based service

that creates chains of simple

conditional statements,

called Applets

They bring your services together,

Creating new experiences that you can unlock

with a single switch

What are services?

These are the aps and devices you

use everyday

Each service has a useful applets you

can turn on

These are also referred to as

“channels”

What are recipes?

These are simple connections

between products and apps

Two kinds of

The IF

The DO

Channels are the building blocks

of recipes

It constitutes triggers and

actions

Trigger is the if part of the

IF recipe

Action is the then part of the

IF recipe

Ingredients are the pieces of data from a

trigger

IFTTT already prepared a number of Applets to

choose from

On your browser,

Type-in www.ifttt.com

Then press enter

IFTTT Website

Click here to sign up

Sign up Page

Enter your email

Create your password

Click Sign up

IFTTT Dashboard

Search Button

Search Page

Click here

You will see more than 20 Applet

collections to choose from

Let’s try it on social media

There are 15 Applets for social media

Let’s try this one

Switch to turn on

This will appear

Click ok

Link to your Instagram

Click Authorize

Link to your dropbox

Click Allow

Link to your Twitter

Click Authorize App

Your Applet is now active

Your Applet ID

Let’s check it out

Your instagram

post

Will also be shared on facebook

And automatically saved on your album

It was also shared on your twitter

And saved in your gallery

And already backed up in your

dropbox

Let’s try another Applet

Let’s pick this one

Thanks to IFTTT,

we can now have our

compilation

Of those tagged photos

in our own album

Switch to turn on

Setting

You can customise the album

name

Then click save

Your Applet is now active

You can also create different

version of Applet

Click here

To view your active

Applets

Your Active Applet

Click to create new Applet

Click “Activity”

To show your

recent activity

Click here

To create new

applet

To browse on

services

To manage

your account

Click services

My Services

Click here to see all services

Browse over and you will see Social

networks

You can choose what services to

connect

Don’t worry, for every services

there are already Applets

Let’s add linkedIn

You can choose what to turn on

Click to see more

Click here to connect

Type-in your password

You can choose your access duration

Click “Ok, I’ll Allow It”

Voila, your LinkedIn account is already

connected

Try activating more Applets if you want

Enjoy automated social life!