What Is IFTTT?
IFTTT (If This Then That) is a fantastic free tool that lets you connect web services so they can talk to each other.
It works like this-
Real Life Examples
To make it easier to understand let me give you some real life examples of how to use the tool-
- Every time you update your Twitter picture, your Facebook picture gets updated
- Every time you publish a blog post, a backup gets saved in Evernote/Dropbox
- Every time your tagged in a photo on Facebook, it gets saved to Google Drive
They are just a few examples of how you can use IFTTT.
It is actually compatible with a huge range of services that you can connect together and make your own 'recipes' like the examples above.
Creating Your First IFTTT Recipe
After you have registered for the site you can create your first recipe.
In this example I'm going to show you how I automatically backup my blog posts to Evernote. So every time an RSS feed is updated, we want to make a copy to Evernote.
First of all click Create Recipe and you'll see something like this-
