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!
