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A tutorial on a productivity tool IFTTT, a step by step guide on how to exactly use the IFTTT work towards your favor. So you can focus more on important things in your life like family.
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How to Use IFTTT
Rowena Caro2015
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What is IFTTT?IFTTT gives you creative control over the products and apps you love.
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IFTTT is a web-based service that allows users to create chains of simple conditional statements, called "recipes",
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which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, and Craigslist.
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What Are Channels?
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A “Channel” is nothing more than a fancy word for a service.
There are nearly 70 different channels that you can use for creating recipes 6weng.caro@gmail.com
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What are Recipes?
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Recipes are simple connections
between products and apps.
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Basically they are the combination of 2 channels, using a “Trigger” and an “Action”.
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When something happens on one channel, it triggers an action.
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There are two types of Recipes: Do Recipes and IF Recipes.
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Here are some typical examples of something you can have IFTTT set up to do:
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Text you the weather at the beginning of
each day.
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Tweet my Facebook status updates
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How do you create this recipes?
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Type on your browser, type: www.ifttt.com
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This will appear
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Click Sign up
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This will appear
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Enter your details
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Click Create account
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IFTTT Dashboard will appear
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Click Create a Recipe
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Example we create a recipe:“Text you the weather at
the beginning of each day”.
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This will appear
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Click this
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This will appear
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Click Date & Time
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This will appear
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Choose the First Trigger, Click Every day at
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This will appear
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Choose the time you want the trigger to happen
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Click the drop down menu and select the time you want
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Example you want the trigger to happen every 6:00 am
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Click Create Trigger
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This will appear
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Click that
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Action Channels will appear
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Scroll down the Channels and Click SMS
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This will appear
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Since the instruction says “You only have one thing to
do”,
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Click Connect
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This will
appear
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Enter your mobile number
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For non US residents make sure you have “00” plus the country code
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After entering your mobile number, Click Send PIN
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A PIN was sent to your mobile number
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Enter the PIN
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After Entering PIN, Click Connect
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This will appear
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Click Done
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This will appear
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Click Continue to the next step
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This will appear
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Click Send me an SMS
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This will appear
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Click Create Action
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Your Recipe is almost done
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Click Create Recipe
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Your recipe is now added to your dashboard
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You still want another example on creating
a recipe?
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Lets create a recipe that will Tweet my Facebook
status updates
The result: Your tweets are also posted as Facebook status updates.
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Click Create a Recipe
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Click this
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Channels will appear, Select Twitter
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A set of Twitter Triggers will appear
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Select the first one
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This will appear, aside from new tweets by you, you can also include retweets and @replies
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For this example lets just use, new tweet by you, Click Create Trigger
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Then click that
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Another set of Channel will appear, Click Facebook
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Click Connect
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This will appear, Click Okay
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Click Okay
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If you have facebook pages, You can choose IFTTT to manage it or not, for now Click Not for Now
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This will appear, Click Done
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Click Continue to the next step
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Choose your preferred action, Click the first one.
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Click on the Text box to create a Status message, then type the message you want.
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Click Create Action
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Almost done with the 2nd recipe, Click Create Recipe
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New recipe added to the dashboard
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You can also use a Pre-Made Recipes
You can browse other people’s recipes and even sort them out by popularity, date and hotness
(popularity)!
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Using pre-made recipes is even
easier than creating your own.
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Click Browse
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Featured recipes will appear
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Choose the recipe that is useful for you, and click on it.
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This will appear;
Click Connect
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This will appear
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Scroll down, then Click Accept
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Then Click Done
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This will appear
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At the lower end, Click Add Recipe
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This will appear; Click Done
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Three Recipes are now on your dashboard
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IFTTT is an amazing tool that you can use for an
amazing amount of practical and even fun
uses.
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Now its your turn to create a recipe of
your own to automate your life.
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Have fun creating IFTTT recipes
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Make Your Life Even More Productive
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