{"id":9516,"date":"2014-11-19T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T00:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/?p=9516"},"modified":"2014-11-19T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T00:58:23","slug":"ifttt-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/ifttt-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"IFTTT, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the summer of 2013, I wrote a post about If This, Then That<\/a>.\u00a0 I mentioned the site a lot of times that summer, actually.\u00a0 It was a bit of an obsession.\u00a0 IFTTT is such a great way to automate online tasks and I wanted to tell the world about it.\u00a0 I was recently reminded via Twitter (thanks Kelly<\/a>!) that a follow up might be in order.\u00a0 So, here you go!<\/p>\n

\"IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n

At the time of my first post, there were 69 available channels on IFTTT.\u00a0 There are now 148.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot more services that you can link together to make your life easier.\u00a0 Some of my favorites include Android (photos, location, notifications, device, phone call and\/or SMS), Buffer, Date\/Time, Evernote, Google Calendar, Pocket, Todoist and Dropbox.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t go into how to set up an IFTTT recipe; it\u2019s pretty self explanatory on the site and I wrote about it in my previous post.\u00a0 There\u2019s a huge catalog of published recipes one can browse, but I usually just create new ones.\u00a0 If you know exactly what you want, I find it just as easy as browsing or searching. I do want to share some of the recipes I\u2019m currently using on IFTTT.\u00a0 I decided I wanted to be more intentional and personal with my social media, so I no longer directly link the Relishment\u2019s RSS feed to Twitter and Facebook.\u00a0 Instead, I\u2019m using one of my new recipes below.<\/p>\n

A few of my current favorite ways to use IFTTT:<\/p>\n

\"IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian and I don’t have a landline phone. It’s New England in the winter. There’s a good chance that one of these days we’ll have a snow day. This recipe causes my ringer to turn on in the wee hours of the morning, allowing me to avoid late night text messages from friends, but making sure I get those snow day calls.<\/p>\n