You can customise the contents using ‘ingredients’(pieces of data passed from the trigger), using the flask symbol on the top right of the input field:įinally, click “Create action”, and you will come to a screen that looks like this: Select an action channel, just like you did for the trigger: I’m setting mine to be “Every day at 9 AM”:Ĭlick the create trigger button, and then click on the “that”: As an example, let’s select “Date & Time”: Here, you choose which service you want the trigger to be.

You’ll get to a screen that looks like this:Ĭlick on the blue underlined “this” (the trigger). How to set up a basic IFTTT recipeĪfter you sign up for an account and log in, click on “My Recipes” in the top bar, and then click on the blue “Create a Recipe” button. Available triggers and actions depend on the ‘channels’ (web services) that you authorised for IFTTT. An action can be something like saving the link to the Pocket application, sending an email, or posting a new status on Facebook. A trigger can be anything, from a date and time to a new link in an RSS feed. The trigger is what causes the recipe to run, and the action is what happens with the data passed from the trigger.

Each recipe takes a ‘trigger’, and an ‘action’. IFTTT allows you to set up ‘recipes’, something like workflows. And these are just the basics – you can use IFTTT for many more things. Or you can download every picture you’re tagged in on Facebook to your Dropbox. For example, you can keep your Twitter profile picture synced to your Facebook profile picture. It allows to you interconnect various online services through a single website. The aptly named IFTTT (“If This Then That”) is an online automation system.

Mac rss reader with ifttt