IFTTT Tutorial

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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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