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9 ways to automate your life with IFTTT
« on: February 22, 2015, 04:07:39 pm »
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9 ways to automate your life with IFTTT
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IFTT's new standalone Do apps for iOS and Android simplify the tasks you do every day. Here are a few awesome ways to use them.

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Turn off your lights without getting out of bed.

This recipe is like the Clapper, but more high-tech. If you have the Phillips Hue smart bulbs, you can use the Do Button app to turn off your lights quickly, just like hitting a light switch, but much more convenient because you don't need to get up. You can also do this if you have a lamp plugged into a Belkin WeMo switch.

Here's how: Pick the Phillips Hue or WeMo switch channel and choose the "Toggle on/off" action, available in both channels. Pick the lights or switches you want to use from the drop-down menu and save your recipe.

Tweet a message to Twitter.

I don't tweet very often and I'd like to change that. One way to get in that habit is to create a message that I can post to the social network whenever I want, without much effort. I personally choose to set my tweet to "Good Morning," but it can be anything you want to tweet over and over.

Here's how: Create a new recipe and select the Twitter channel. Choose "Post a tweet" from the action list and then type in the message you want to share every time you press the button.

Do Note
Append a new item to an existing to-do list in Evernote.

While I love Evernote for saving notes and to-do lists, I don't love that it can be time consuming to get into the app, find my to-do list and add a new item to it from the mobile apps. This recipe makes that process much, much easier. What's really great is that the any new item you type into the recipe is appended to your existing note, just as if you edited the note in Evernote.

Here's how: In the Evernote channel, select "Append a to-do to note." If you already have an existing to-do list in Evernote you want to use, enter that note's name in the Title field, otherwise, you can simply change that field to whatever title you want your new note to have. You can also choose which notebook to save the note, or leave that field blank to choose your account's default notebook.

Create a new Google Calendar event.

Creating a new calendar event couldn't be any easier with this recipe. The only drawback is that because you're not looking at your calendar, you might miss other conflicting events. It's also only available in English.

The upshot is that you can either type in a very specific event, like "5:30pm every other Wednesday Happy Hour at The Bar," or something as simple as "2pm grab coffee with Sarah" to create a new event. It's also very easy to create the recipe.

Here's how: Create a new recipe and pick the Google Calendar channel. Choose the only action: "Quick add event." Save the recipe and you're done. To use it, just type in any event you want and press the button.
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Email yourself a digest of notes every day.

Whether you want to remember big ideas or just to-do items for tomorrow, this recipe will help keep those things fresh in your mind each day. You type out notes throughout the day and then IFTTT will send you a single email with all of those notes together at the time you pick, like 7am each morning or 9pm at night. It's also helpful for compiling a daily reading list of links for the end of the day.

Here's how: Create a new recipe using the Email Digest channel and select "Add to a daily digest." Select the time of day that you want your digest to be delivered and you can tweak the formatting of the notes in the digest. The email is sent to the address on your IFTTT account, not any of the email addresses you use in your channels.

Do Camera
Share photos in one step.

One of my favorite examples of using Do Camera is to share photos you take instantly with someone. This would be a great option for new parents who want to share pictures with grandparents, without fussing with their phones. Because Do Camera works as both a camera app and a means to share the photos it takes, as soon as you press the shutter button, the photo is taken and then sent via email, to Facebook or anywhere else you choose. For this example, I'll use Facebook.

Here's how: In the Facebook channel, select "Upload a photo from a URL." Then, type in the album where you want to share the photos, such as "Family Photos" or "Mobile Uploads." Whatever text is in the Message field will become the photo caption when you upload it, so you can tweak that too.

Back up and organize your vacation photos the moment you take them.

Cloud storage and automatic photo backups mean that our vacation photos are rarely lost, but they aren't always organized. This recipe can help with that.

When you take a photo on vacation (or anywhere), it's immediately added to a folder in Dropbox as soon as you hit the shutter button in Do Camera. Once the vacation is over, you can tweak the recipe to save photos to a new folder for your next trip.

Here's how: In the Dropbox channel, pick the "Add file from URL" action. The recipe will automatically populate the fields with the correct file source, which is the public URL of your photo. You can change the file name if you like, or the Dropbox folder where you want to save your photos.

Remember restaurants, points of interest and other special places.

When you're traveling around a new city, you'll often stumble upon cool places worth remembering. Instead of simply writing them down, you can take a photo and save the location on a map so that you can find it again or share it with someone. One of the easiest ways to do this is with Evernote, but you can also simply email the photos and location data to yourself. The steps are identical, but you'll pick a different channel.

Here's how: In the Evernote channel, select the "Create a note" action. Tap into the Body field, and at the end of the text that's already there, add the HTML phrase <img src="{{LocationMapImageURL}}">. Doing that will insert a map of the exact location of where you took the photo, so you'll never forget where it was. You can then change the other fields to tweak the note title and the notebook where you'll save the photos.
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These are just a few of the ways you can use the Do apps by IFTTT and there are many more recipes just waiting for you. Now that you have the tools, go out there and start automating your life with Do and IFTTT. Also, share your favorite recipes in the comments below --we Il'd love to see what you create with your replies thanks.

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