Today I recommend a "smart" service tool-IFTTT.
Through it, we can customize a variety of personalized services, so that our life becomes simple, interesting and intelligent.
What is IFTTT?
First of all, we introduce what IFTTT is? It is the abbreviation of If This Then That, which can be understood as if the event This is triggered then the event That is executed.
In IFTTT, the event This is called Trigger, That is called Action, and this process is called Recipes.
To accomplish this series of tasks efficiently is to combine various processes.
How to use IFTTT?
For example, when we want to send a Weibo, we also synchronize a message to Twitter, so that friends on Twitter can also see my Weibo messages.
The process is as follows:
Go to ifttt.com to register
Create an applet
In If This Then That This selects weibo to pass authorization
That choose twitter authorization certification
Realize the synchronization of sending Weibo to twitter
Why is IFTTT smart? It is because it can connect various websites and APIs (application programming interfaces) to complete various complex tasks, thereby improving our personal work efficiency.
Since the IFTTT tool, ordinary users have the ability to "program" and can customize their own personalized services at will. For developers, IFTTT accelerates the automation process and makes automation easier.
What can IFTTT do?
The above shared that IFTTT has realized the sending and backup function of Weibo and Twitter.
But due to the rapid development of the Internet, we use more than one service or platform in our lives. For example, use Wechat/Telegram for chat, Instagram for sharing photos, Dropbox/Google Drive for image file storage, etc., Evernote for daily notes, Omnifocus and Todoist for to-dos (only these two are recommended), etc.
In the process of so many services, we often need to "string up" several or more of them to achieve a series of collaborations to work efficiently.
And the process of "stringing up" these is IFTTT.
Let me share some of the automated processes I completed through IFTTT:
My wife sent Weibo/twitter, she notified me and saved it to my Evernote.
The email sent with attachments will be automatically saved in your own Dropbox.
New contacts from the address book are synchronized to Google Contacts.
iPhone automatically categorizes screenshots and pictures, making it easier to organize photos.
Send me the weather conditions of the next day every day to remind me whether to bring an umbrella.
Siri to-do items are automatically transferred to Omnifocus Inbox (Omnifocus2.0 and iOS11 can be completed without using ifttt).
Some netizens came up with many other interesting and fun features:
Send backup SMS to Telegram, a chat tool.
If the phone is not found, send an email to IFTTT to call your own phone.
After 30 days of not tweeting, a series of tasks were initiated: 1. Send an email to tell the funeral home to collect the corpse (dear, you can check my Google Location); 2. Automatic transfer; 3. Publish a suicide note to tell relatives and friends that you can go somewhere in 30 days Tribute; 4. Share the video recorded during his lifetime. -From knowing
IFTTT meaning
IFTTT put forward the concept of "Do more with the services you love" on the official website, which means to do more with the services you love.
IFTTT puts this series of Recipes (processes) in the form of "services" for everyone to use. Almost all of the examples I have given above can be found on ifttt.com. These services greatly save people's time and energy, allowing complicated task processes to require only a few simple steps to authorize.
In addition, through the personalized operation of our data content such as IFTTT tags, we can manage our data in different scenarios, which is more friendly and convenient.
IFTTT reorganizes and disseminates our information/knowledge to make our lives and work smarter.
The way we work in the future may look like this:
During the work process, IFTTT will automatically arrange the travel tool route for you according to the traffic jam and weather conditions, and make a reservation for the car. Go to the company to automatically prepare coffee and beverages for you, and automatically recommend your suitable work tasks according to your work progress and sleep conditions yesterday. After get off work, automatically make reservations for restaurants that you and your wife like according to your calendar, prepare flower gifts, and enjoy a beautiful candlelight dinner.
The above is just a simple introduction. Welcome everyone to leave me a message on the background of the interesting gameplay of IFTTT.