ifttt website tutorial

IFTTT

Website

Tutorial

What is

IFTTT?

IFTTT

(short for IF

This Then That)

is a service

that enables

users to

connect

different web

applications

(Ex: Facebook,

Evernote,

Dropbox, etc.)

together

through simple

conditional

statements

known as

Recipes.

IFTTT lets

you create

powerful

connections

with one

simple

statement.

Some of the

words to be

familiar

with are

the following:

Channels,

Triggers,

Actions,

Ingredients

and Recipe.

Channels

Channels are

the basic

building

blocks of

IFTTT. Each

Channel has

its own

Triggers and

Actions.

Some example

Channels are:

Triggers

The This part

of a Recipe

is a Trigger.

Some example

Triggers are

“I’m tagged

in a photo in

Facebook”

or “I checked

in on

Foursquare.”

Actions

The That part

of a Recipe

is an Action.

Some example

Actions are

“Send me a

text message”

Or “Create

a status

message on

Facebook.”

Ingredients

Pieces of data

from a Trigger

are called

Ingredients.

For example,

the Ingredients

of an Email

trigger could

be: subject,

body,

attachments,

received date

and the

sender’s

address.

Recipes

Personal

Recipes are

a combination

of a Trigger

and an Action

from your

active

Channels.

Personal

Recipes

look like

this:

Shared

Recipes are

useful

templates

shared by the

IFTTT

community.

Shared

Recipes

look

like this:

Let’s

get

started!

Locate your

favorite

browser.

Click icon

In address bar,

Type:

www.ifttt.com

Press Enter

Here’s the

home page of

IFTTT

For better

experience of

using the site,

let’s sign

up for an

account.

Click

Fill this out

for details

and click

Create

account

button.

Click

If creating

an account is

successful,

user will be

redirected to

dashboard:

To start,

let’s click on

Use button.

User will be

redirected to

this page:

To create a

Recipe, click

on Create

on the upper

portion of

the site.

Click

Click

Choose

Trigger

Channel

In our example,

let’s use

Twitter

Click

User is asked

to activate Twitter Account

Click

Click

Click

Click

Click

Click

This part is

created, let’s

do the

That part.

Click

Click

Google

Drive

Click

Click

Click

Click

Click

Click

Click

Click

This Recipe

means that if

you post a

tweet including

retweets in your

Twitter account,

a document

will be

created in

your Google

Drive

account.

Congratulations!

You’ve just

created your

first Recipe.

Do this for

any other

applications

in the list to

to save

time and

effort.