How To Use Web’s Most Powerful

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internet has increasingly

become a part of a person’s

work life

Want toknow how to

automate all that

Is there a way to do the more

repetitive tasks automatically?

The answer

is…YES

and it’s called

Now let’s get to know IFTTT up

close

Why use IFTTT?

you’ll be able to save enormous

amounts of precious time

Are you an employee?

who is looking to automate some

of your work

IFTTT could give you an edge on

your career

IFTTT is an

automation tool

that create TRIGGERS

that says IF THIS

triggers happen

THENgo ahead and do

THAT

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

Now before we go further

First things first…..

Let’s create an account

Go to your favorite browser

type in

https://ifttt.com/

Head over to IFTTT, then you’ll be

greeted with the following screen

You may wonder how come there

is a RECIPES here!

Before we venture into

that let’s sign-up

Click “Sign Up”

enter your email

enter a min of 6

characters for the

password

Click “Create

Account”

Here we go! You’ll see this once your done creating your

account

Click this to get started

See this

Click that

Notice that?

You just experience a walkthrough of IFTTT

Simple logic but powerful

Let’s breakdow

n each

component

What is a RECIPE?

RECIPES are what make IFTTT worth your time

they are the combination of

2 CHANNELS

using a “TRIGGER” and an “ACTION”

when something happens on one

channel

it triggers an action

Confused?

don’t be, it will all make sense

just know that recipes

are formulas

you set up deciding which

triggers

will prompt which actions

Before we create a RECIPE

let’s check out what is a CHANNEL

CHANNEL is nothing more than a fancy word for a

service

The brilliant thing about IFTTT is that

its variety of channels allows

it to offer something to

everybody

some of the most famous

and used channels are:

Now, let’s make a RECIPE

Go to “ifttt.com/recipes”

You may choose among the

following RECIPES collection:

or you may create your own

and I’ll show you how to do it

Click this

Click “Create a Recipe”

Click the word “this”

STEP 1: Chose a Trigger Channel

For this illustrati

on, I choose Feed

STEP 2: Click “New Feed Item”

STEP 3: Provide you feed URL requirements

If you’re a blogger or you have a website

there is a good chance that you have some kind

of feed

Just type in <domain name>

type in this “/feed/”

It may look like this or it may look different

Copy and paste the URL here

Click this

Next is click the word “THAT”

STEP 4: Choose action channel

For this illustrati

on, I choose Pocket

Click “Connect”

You will then be

directed to Pocket fill

in your username

and password and click

“authorize”

Click “Done”

Click this

STEP 5: Choose an action

Click “Save for later”

STEP 6: Complete Action Fields

Enter URL

You may also add

an ingredien

t by

clicking this

At your option, fill in feed title

Click this

STEP 7: Complete Action Fields

Click this

Here is a newly created recipe

you can do this will all the different accounts

For instance, you can trigger FEED and use BUFFER

as action

then now the next time that you publish a

log post

the “IF” is going to see that

something new showed up

in my feed it will automatically

put it into BUFFER

that way you don’t have

manually create an update

Now that you have an idea how it works,

you will definitely love

IFTTT

and enjoy the convenient in

making you life easier by

automation

Here are selected Best IFTTT Recipes

Thanks for watching!