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All the New Stuff in IFTTT for Android and What You Can Do With It. How to Be 100x More Productive: The 35 Best IFTTT Recipes. Who doesn’t need a team of personal assistants taking care of their daily mindless tasks, right? Think of IFTTT (If This Then That) as your own team of assistants who do your repetitive tasks for free. You can click on any of these 35 IFTTT tasks and set up automatic actions for everything from spreadsheets of your receipts, to backups of your pictures, to fake phone calls to escape a boring meeting.

What you won’t find? Automated direct messages on Twitter, automatic cross posting from Twitter or Facebook (or vice vera), and automatic tweets from random settings. Some things just shouldn’t be faked or automated. IFTTT Recipes for Business Organization- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Apple Reminders IFTTT Recipes- 6. 7. Instagram IFTTT Recipes 8. 9. 10. IFTTT Recipes to Document Your Data- 11. 12. Screenshot Recipes- 13. 14. IFTTT Recipe to Keep You on Time- 15. IFTTT Recipes for Information Gathering & Retrieval- 16. 17. 18. 19. Just for fun- 20. Bonus IFTTT Recipes 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. The 101 Best ifttt Recipes. If This Then That (or IFTTT—rhymes with "gift") has become the ultimate automation service for small tasks between Internet-connected services.

Whether on the Web or with select apps on iOS and Android, IFTTT—one of our rare 5-star Editors' Choice picks—can handle anything its member service "channels" support. When you have an IFTTT account, you activate any of the 211 available channels—that's almost exactly double the channels IFTTT had last year. Each has its own set of triggers (the "if this" part) or actions (the "then that" side) or both. For example, make a status update on one service (a trigger), IFTTT will ensure an action takes place on another channel, like reposting that update. Combine them just right and you can create a daisy chain of triggers and actions across a number of services, where just one post could hit almost every corner of your Web presence. All the big names are supported on IFTTT. 14 Hilarious 'If This Then That' Recipes. Short for "If This Then That," IFTTT "recipes" build efficient notifications and triggers that optimize our everyday activities.

For example, you can create the following recipe: "If a shipping status changes on my Amazon order, then send me a text message. " But when IFTTT users get a little creative, get ready to giggle. Some of these 14 IFTTT recipes seem innocent enough, but we simply can't imagine the motives behind them — or maybe they're just meant to be downright hysterical. How do you use IFTTT? Homepage composite via iStockphoto, jordanchez.

10 IFTTT Recipes to Optimize Your Business. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. IFTTT (an acronym for "If This Then That") can be a powerful addition to your business tool belt — if used correctly. The service links everyday actions you take on the web, in order to ensure you're more organized and time-conscious. By creating IFTTT "recipes," users can effectively build a more efficient lifestyle or business, based on tools they already use. For example, you can create the following recipe: "If a shipping status changes on my Amazon order, then send me a text message. " And that only scratches the surface of possibilites. We know how complicated it can be to maintain a to-do list, especially when it comes to your business.

Rather than posting sticky note reminders all over your desk, pre-set a few web and social actions. We've gathered 10 IFTTT recipes that can apply to your small business. 11 Top IFTTT Recipes to Activate Now. IFTTT might be the best thing for digital productivity since the Self Control app. So we've assembled a collection of the very best recipes. IFTTT stands for "If this, then that. " The site helps you craft solutions to streamline your digital organization. IFTTT recipes are excellent for planning out your social media strategy, or just reminding you to cross something off of your to-do list. There are two pieces of vocabulary you should know when dealing with IFTTT recipes. A "Channel" is the client affected by the IFTTT statement. Most IFTT recipes check for new trigger data every 15 minutes. What's your favorite IFTTT recipe? Image: Mashable composite, IFTTT. IFTTT (IFTTT) 10 IFTTT recipes to make you more productive at work.

If technology is supposed to make our lives simpler, why do our lives seem more stressful than ever? One reason might be the endless digital drudgery that dominates our workdays—too much time spent on menial, manual tasks better left to the robots in our midst. But with a little help from our favorite task-automation service, IFTTT, you can put mundane chores on autopilot and spend more time on the interesting stuff. IFTTT stands for If This, Then That. It’s a free service that lets you build simple, automated processes to handle various online situations. From performing automated Craigslist searches and sending you the relevant results to automatically emailing your colleagues when your plane lands in their area, IFTTT can make you instantly more productive with almost no effort on your part. How IFTTT works IFTTT does its thing by connecting to a whole bunch of cloud-based services, ranging from Dropbox and Google Drive to iOS Reminders, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.