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How many hours do you spend daily on online activities such as checking email inbox, tweeting, and sharing stuff on social media? Even though those activities are necessary, sometimes it becomes a distraction for our main tasks. Have you ever tried to automate these tasks to reduce time waste?
IFTTT is the best service available currently for automating such tasks. IFTTT has number of channels which triggers on certain conditions and executes a specified action on other channels. You can automate most time consuming tasks by using IFTTT recipes. It provides almost 46 popular channels and rising every day.
In this roundup I am going to provide 20 Cool automations, which are known as recipes created by people around the world. Hope you enjoy.
Every blog owner knows the importance of a new follower for your Twitter page. This recipe can be used to thank the new followers using a tweet and let them know that they are important for the site.
Created By mhartshorn
Recipe that can be used to automate the tweeting process based on your Facebook page update.
Created By bombernitros
Get SMS updates on email based on certain search criteria. You can use is:unread to get SMS updates on every new email. Great to have feature, when you don’t have an internet connection available.
Created By jagfun
This recipe lets you receive SMS alerts just before an event starts on your Google Calendar. Excellent solution for situations, where you don’t have internet access.
Created By linden
Facebook fan page very important for webmaster as your RSS feed. Every time a post is updated, Facebook fans should be notified via the fan page update. This recipe lets you automate the posting on Facebook page based on WordPress post update.
Created By clavejones
Send an email containing a link of file to be downloaded with specific a keyword for downloading purposes and get the file downloaded automatically to your Dropbox account. Use “downloadthis” as the subject and link as the body. No other content like signatures should be included.
Created By darkmyth
Every day we might get followers to our Twitter account. It is not always possible to check about new followers whenever they follow you. It’s important to know about these new followers since they might be your future clients. So this recipe can be used to add every new follower to a Twitter list. Then you can organize them later and clear the list accordingly.
Created By glirette
This recipe can be used when you want to find users who talks about specific topics. Define a hashtag (#1stWD) and whenever someone tweets with this hashtag, user will be added to your Twitter list.
Created By biotimylated
Once you provide the RSS feed url of your Pinterest account, IFTTT will automatically download the images of the pins when a new item is added to the RSS feed.
Created By thechristopherbruce
Send a chat message using Gtalk with a specific tag and create a note in Evernote. First you have to add bot@ifttt.com to your chat list and activate using a pin. Then every time you send a chat message with specific tag, a note will be created.
Created By dewang
You can define a search text and send all the tweets that match the search criteria directly into your email inbox. Saves lot of time in researching for specific topic. Use with caution since it might generate large number of mails to your inbox in few minutes.
Created By peteryde
Generally all users follow number of people. It’s not practical to read every tweet by your followers. Sometimes we like tweets from specific users and we want to follow all the tweets created by them. In such case we can use this recipe to watch tweets from specific username and send it to your email.
Created By dubukat
Tweets can be scheduled to publish at certain times. This will reduce the overhead of logging into account every time you need to tweet. Create events in Google Calendar using specific keyword (ex ScheduleTweet) and IFTTT will automatically publish the tweet when the calendar event occurs.
Created By cyclesurrey
Send a link of the file to be downloaded to bot@ifttt.com with a specific tag and get the file downloaded automatically to your Dropbox account.
Created By steveedson
Define a search criterion for incoming mails which needs to be added to calendar. You can define subject as newevent and put as search criteria. When a new email with subject containing newevent comes in, the body content will be added as a Google Calendar event.
Created By rs666
Your Twitter bio message will be set to the latest tweet whenever you create a new tweet on your account.
Created By alexander
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Tweets marked as favorite will be added to single note in a given notebook with specified tags.
Created By stevepaulo
Send a chat message to bot@ifttt.com with a specific tag and post a tweet on your Twitter account automatically.
Created By marshall24
Send a chat message to bot@ifttt.com with a #cal in your message and create Google Calendar event automatically.
Created By marshall24
This recipe can be used to update your LinkedIn profile with the latest blog posts from the site.
Created By jonfinnangelo
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Rakhitha Nimesh is a software engineer and writer from Sri Lanka. He likes to develop applications and write on latest technologies. He is available for freelance writing and WordPress development. You can read his latest book on Building Impressive Presentations with Impress.js. He is a regular contributor to 1stWebDesigner, Tuts+ network and Sitepoint network. Make sure to contact him at www.innovativephp.com or follow him on Twitter
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 14:44
I have made use of RSS to SMS recipe to receive SMS every time some one comments on my site. I have made a plugin for WordPress specifically designed for the purpose. The plugin makes an RSS feed for pending comments. It is pretty useful.
I have posted the tutorial here : http://www.thelacunablog.com/2012/08/receive-sms-everytime-comments-wordpress-site/
Monday, July 30th, 2012 21:34
This post really help me and save a lot of my time. Thanks Man.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012 22:39
Awesome fresh post. I’m happy for was found this tools. #ShareTools.Connection( @1Stwebdesigner, #db );
Friday, July 6th, 2012 07:45
I just started using that tool today and I must say it can be very handy, but the trick is to stay human/real when it comes to important channels for your social presence. Thanks,
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 18:37
Dear Rakhitha Nimesh,
Thank you for the recipes! Our company looked into IFTTT to help with blogging and tweeting but we are still learning the service. I will share some of these recipes with co-workers; the WordPress and Facebook recipes are sure to be very useful. Are there any recipes in particular you would recommend to beginners or is the recipe dependent upon the company?
Thanks,
Miranda Goot
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 02:37
I never know that g talk can do so much things . really intresting
thanks for shareing
Monday, July 2nd, 2012 02:41
The information provided here is very good and also very informative.
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Asad
Monday, July 30th, 2012 21:34
This post really help me and save a lot of my time. Thanks Man.
John Ksllas
Monday, July 23rd, 2012 22:39
Awesome fresh post. I’m happy for was found this tools. #ShareTools.Connection( @1Stwebdesigner, #db );
ram
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 02:37
I never know that g talk can do so much things . really intresting
thanks for shareing
Miranda Goot
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 18:37
Dear Rakhitha Nimesh,
Thank you for the recipes! Our company looked into IFTTT to help with blogging and tweeting but we are still learning the service. I will share some of these recipes with co-workers; the WordPress and Facebook recipes are sure to be very useful. Are there any recipes in particular you would recommend to beginners or is the recipe dependent upon the company?
Thanks,
Miranda Goot
Nik
Thursday, July 5th, 2012 04:54
Very interesting list. Like it
Miranda Goot
Friday, July 6th, 2012 07:45
I just started using that tool today and I must say it can be very handy, but the trick is to stay human/real when it comes to important channels for your social presence. Thanks,
Dainis Graveris
Saturday, July 7th, 2012 10:05
Miranda, which tool you started using?
Atul Dobariya
Monday, July 2nd, 2012 02:41
The information provided here is very good and also very informative.
Sk
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 14:44
I have made use of RSS to SMS recipe to receive SMS every time some one comments on my site. I have made a plugin for WordPress specifically designed for the purpose. The plugin makes an RSS feed for pending comments. It is pretty useful.
I have posted the tutorial here : http://www.thelacunablog.com/2012/08/receive-sms-everytime-comments-wordpress-site/