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.TRANSCRIPT
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.
IFTTT is a web-based service that allows users to create chains of simple conditional statements, called "recipes",
which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, and Craigslist.
What Are Channels?
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 [email protected]
What are Recipes?
Basically they are the combination of 2 channels, using a “Trigger” and an “Action”.
When something happens on one channel, it triggers an action.
There are two types of Recipes: Do Recipes and IF Recipes.
Here are some typical examples of something you can have IFTTT set up to do:
Tweet my Facebook status updates
How do you create this recipes?
Type on your browser, type: www.ifttt.com
This will appear
Click Sign up
This will appear
Enter your details
Click Create account
IFTTT Dashboard will appear
Click Create a Recipe
This will appear
Click this
This will appear
Click Date & Time
This will appear
Choose the First Trigger, Click Every day at
This will appear
Choose the time you want the trigger to happen
Click the drop down menu and select the time you want
Example you want the trigger to happen every 6:00 am
Click Create Trigger
This will appear
Click that
Action Channels will appear
Scroll down the Channels and Click SMS
This will appear
Click Connect
Enter your mobile number
For non US residents make sure you have “00” plus the country code
After entering your mobile number, Click Send PIN
A PIN was sent to your mobile number
Enter the PIN
After Entering PIN, Click Connect
This will appear
Click Done
This will appear
Click Continue to the next step
This will appear
Click Send me an SMS
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