11 Top IFTTT Recipes to Increase Your Productivity

If you still not familiar with IFTTT, I strongly recommend you to take a look, as you will soon start to realize its huge potential. IFTTT (stands for “if this then that”) is a free service that enables you to connect up digital channels or services you use on a regular basis and get them to work together to perform simple but useful tasks.

Preface

Today, providing process consulting services at the leading global software development and consulting company, doing mobile games with my fellows at in4ray and blogging here at measrureofluck.com, I’m using dozens of digital services and tools to perform and maintain daily routine. Having lots of different activities in my daily list, I always researching new techniques and approaches on how to automate and optimize my everyday work. And IFTTT is the tool that helps me to do this. This tool helps improve productivity, reduce data overload and automate repetitive tasks. I would strongly recommend you to incorporate this tool into your process and automate events to simplify your working life. IFTTT provides growing number of well-known channels that you can use in your recipes, including: Slack, Trello, Gmail, Twitter, RSS, Feedly, Evernote, Google Docs, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Google Calendar. And this list continuously goes on.

IFTTT Recipes to Activate Now

To showcase you how IFTTT works, I’ve listed below 11 recipes that facilitate your productivity.

1. If Trello Then Slack. Keep Slack up to date with a board’s newest Trello cards (Activate)

Keep Slack up to date with a board's newest Trello cards

2. If Dropbox Then Slack. New files in your public Dropbox folder will post to a Slack channel (Activate)

New files in your Public folder will post to a Slack channel

3. If RSS Then Twitter. New entries to an RSS will be automatically tweeted (Activate)

New entries to an RSS will be automatically tweeted

4. If Feedly Then Pocket. Articles saved for later in Feedly get saved for later in Pocket too (Activate)

Articles saved for later in Feedly get saved for later in Pocket too

5. If Feedly Then Evernote. Create link notes in Evernote from Feedly articles saved for later (Activate)

Create link notes in Evernote from Feedly articles saved for later

6. If Pocket Then Buffer. All you got to do is favorite an article in Pocket and this Recipe will add it to your Buffer queue with a headline and image (Activate)

Buffer your Pocket favorites

7. If Pocket Then Twitter. Automatically tweet new favorites in Pocket (Activate)

Automatically Tweet new favorites in Pocket

8. If Facebook Then Twitter. Keep your social account in sync by updating your Twitter profile image whenever your Facebook picture is updated (Activate)

Keep your profile pictures in sync

9. If Twitter Then Google Doc. Track new Twitter followers in Google Docs spreadsheet (Activate)

Track New Followers in Spreadsheet

10. If Medium Then Twitter. Share posts that you’ve recommended on Medium with your Twitter fans (Activate)

Tweet Medium stories that you recommend

11. If Twitter Then Twitter. Build a Twitter list from a specific hashtag (Activate)

Build a Twitter list from a specific hashtag

Conclusion

Hope this overview gives you clear understanding of IFTTT’s potential. Beside this list, there are lot of other useful recipes to improve your productivity. So, sign up with IFTTT, pick up your recipes and start improve productivity. I’d be glad to hear your feedback in comments below. Thank you and wish you the best of luck!

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Originally published at measureofluck.com on December 29, 2015.