How to use IFTTT

Type in ifttt.com

IFTTT homepage appears

Create an account

Click Sign Up

Enter your Email

Create a password

It’s creating an account..

Click this to get started

Click that

A quick introduction about IFTTT

Click Continue

Again, click Continue

Select channels that you want to use

Let’s use Facebook, Twitter and Evernote

Click Facebook icon

Click Twitter

Click Evernote icon

For more channels..

Click Show more Channels

Scroll down and click Continue

It’s loading..

IFTTT homepage

The IFTTT interface

Click My Recipes

IF tab

This is where you create your recipe

DO tab

Here you can create personalized Button, Camera

and Note

Published tab

Favorites tab

Click Browse

Scroll down to browse published recipes

You can use recipes published by others

Search for published recipe here

Click Channels

Here are the channels you can use

You can search for channels here

To create a recipe

Click My Recipes

Click Create a Recipe

Click this

Choose a trigger channel

Or search for the channel

Let’s search for Facebook

Click Facebook

Click Connect

Click Done

Click Continue to the next step

Choose a Trigger

Every trigger has information to guide you

Let’s choose ‘New photo post by you’

Click Create Trigger

Trigger appears

Click that

Choose Action channel

Let’s search for twitter

Click Twitter icon

Click Connect

Enter your Twitter username or email

Enter your password

Click Authorize app

Click Done

Click Continue to the next step

Choose an Action

Let’s select ‘Post a tweet with image’

Click inside the box

Click this icon

Select an ingredient

Let’s click CreatedAt

Click Add Ingredient

Here’s our ingredients

Click Create Action

Last step for our new recipe

The Recipe Title

Click Create Recipe

Recipe created

Recipe tools are here

Turn Recipe off button

Publish recipe button

Check Recipe now button

View Recipe logs

Delete recipe button

Let’s look at our new recipe if it works

Log in to Facebook

Click Photo/Video

Click Upload Photos/Videos

Choose a photo

Click Open

Add a caption

Click Post

Photo is posted

Now let’s check Twitter

It is also posted

To use published recipes by others

Click Browse

Let’s use Facebook and Evernote

Type in “facebook evernote” on search box

Click Search

Facebook Evernote published recipes by others

Let’s choose this recipe

Click the recipe

Click Connect

Enter your Evernote Email or username

Enter your password

Click Sign in

Click Authorize

Click Done

Click Add

Recipe created

Click Done

Now we have another new recipe

Let’s look at our recipes

Click My Recipes

Now we have two new recipes

Let’s try out the recent recipe

Go to Facebook

Type in a status

Click Post

Status posted on Facebook

Let’s check the status on Evernote

Status received on Evernote

Awesome! You just learned how IFTTT works

“Miracles are produced by faithful action. It’s the simple actions that matter.”

- Bo Sanchez