IF THIS THEN THAT
BY: ANNA MARIE J. PINEDAwww.annamariepineda.com
How to use IFTTT
open your browser
type in www.ifttt.com
home screen of IFTTT‘If This Then That’
click ‘SIGN UP’ to create an account
enter your ‘EMAIL ADDRESS’
enter your ‘PASSWORD’
click ‘CREATE ACCOUNT’
click ‘THIS’ to get started
click ‘CONTINUE’
encircle are the two parts of Recipe…
then, click continue
select channels that interest you
click ‘See more Channels’
select ‘3 more Channels’ to continue
by the way RECIPE is your formula that you use to
connect…
emails, your gadgets (laptop, iPhones, android phones) and more…
here’s the recipe sample, browse more to find what…
interest you...
interest you more in collections of
‘RECIPES’
scroll down below the collections to
see the…
‘RECOMMENDED’ recipes
‘DO’ recipes
and ‘IF’ recipes
where you can find a wide collections
of recipe
on the other hand, scroll up…
and you will see helpful icons for
you
click ‘MY RECIPES’
where you can see all your created
recipes
click‘BROWSE’
then search for ‘PUBLISHED RECIPES’
from collections
simply browse
then click ‘CHANNELS’
where you can create connections between channels
now let’s start creating a recipe
click ‘My Recipes’
then click ‘Create a Recipe’
now click ‘this’
choose a ‘TRIGGER CHANNEL’
type in your ‘CHANNEL’
or scroll down to search
for this will use ‘FACEBOOK’ as our trigger channel
click the ‘FACEBOOK’ icon
when connecting to IFTTT…
from a network to another network you will be asked
to...
log in first to your network
account to give IFTTT an
authorization
you’ll only have to do this once
to use your account
fill up the log in bars then click ‘LOG IN’
after logging in click ‘OK’
now choose to whom you want to ‘SHARE’
your post through IFTTT
then click ‘OK’
click ‘DONE’
another click
now choose your ‘TRIGGER’
click ‘CREATE TRIGGER’
click ‘THAT’
choose ‘ACTION CHANNEL’
again click the icon
click ‘CONNECT’
log in to Twitter then click ‘AUTHORIZE APP’
click ‘DONE’ & now both networks are CONNECTED
choose an actionlets click ‘POST A TWEET’
type a ‘TWEET TEXT’
which IFTTT is going to post to
every time you have a ‘NEW PHOTO
POST’ update
click ‘CREATE ACTION’
check the ‘RECIPE TITLE’
click ‘CREATE RECIPE’
the recipe we’ve created is now added to ‘MY RECIPES’
click on the image...
or the pencil icon
to edit or delete the recipe
here you can see the ‘RECIPE ID’
...and the ‘RECIPE TITLE’
click this ‘TURN OFF’ icon
…if you decided to stop using this
recipe
‘PUBLISH’ the recipe
…to put into ‘PUBLIC’ and can be use by others
‘CHECK NOW’
…to check your recipe
‘LOG’ to check log items
& ‘DELETE’ in case you want to remove the recipe
scroll down to see your ‘MESSAGE BOX’
…where you have type the ‘TWEET
TEXT’
click ‘UPDATE’
…if you want to change or revised your tweet text
now let’s try a photo post to
click post
and then, let’s ‘CHECK’ my Twitter
account
see right after I’ve posted to my Facebook, the tweet text was
sent to my Twitter account
“Ultimate automation will make our modern industry as primitive & outdated as a stone age man looks to us today.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
