IFTTT creates simple connections between the products you use every day

1. HOWTO USE IFTTT
IfThisThenThat

2. Go to www.ifttt.com

5. Click Sign Up to create
an account.

7. Fill-up the details.

8. Enter your email.

9. Enter your password.

10. Click Create account.

11. These are the two
parts of a recipe.

13. Recipe is what you call
the formula

14. …that you use to
connect networks,

15. …applications,
iPhones, android
phones, emails and a
whole lot more!

16. Now you can see
different collections of
recipes.

20. Those are just a few to
give you examples.

21. Scroll down below the
collections you’ll find the
recommended recipes,

23. …do recipes,

24. …and If recipes

25. …where you can
choose from a wide
range of recipes.

26. On the other hand,
scroll up

27. …and you’ll see helpful
buttons for you.

29. Click My Recipes

30. …and you’ll see all the
recipes you’ve
created.

32. Click Browse

33. …then go and search
for published recipes
from collections.

35. Click Channels

36. …then create
connections between
Channels.

38. As a sample, we will
create a recipe.

39. Click My Recipes.

40. Click Create a Recipe.

41. Now click this.

42. Choose a Trigger Channel.

43. Type-in your channel

44. …or scroll down to search.

45. For this, we’ll use
Facebook as trigger
channel.

46. Click the icon.

47. Every time you try to
connect IFTTT…

48. …to other networks,
you’ll be asked to

49. …log-in to your
network accounts to
authorize IFTTT

50. …to use your account.

51. After logging-in, click Okay

52. Now choose to whom
you want to share

53. …your IFTTT posts to.

54. Then click Okay.

55. Click Done.

56. Now choose a Trigger.

57. Click your chosenTrigger.

58. Click CreateTrigger.

59. Click that.

60. Choose Action Channel.

61. Again, click the icon.

62. Log-in toTwitter.

63. Click Authorize App.

64. Click Done.

65. Both networks are
now connected!

66. Choose an Action.

67. Type a TweetText,

68. …that IFTTT is going
to post toTwitter

69. …whenever you have a
new status update.

70. Click Create Action.

71. Check the RecipeTitle.

72. Click Create Recipe.

74. The recipe we’ve
created is now added
to My Recipe.

76. Click on the image…

77. …or the pencil icon

78. …to edit or delete the
recipe.

79. Here you can see the
Recipe ID

81. …and the RecipeTitle.

82. Turn off the recipe

83. …when you want to
stop from using it.

84. Publish your recipe

85. …to publicize it and be
used by others.

86. Check now

87. …to check your
recipes.

88. Log to check log items.

89. Delete to remove the recipe

90. Scroll down to see the
message box

91. …where you have
typed the Tweet text.

92. Click Update,

93. …if you wanted to
change your tweet
text.

94. Let’s now try to post a
status to Facebook.

95. Click Post.

97. Then let’s check my
Twitter account.

99. Immediately after I’ve
posted to Facebook, a
Tweet text was sent to
myTwitter account.

100. Now go and save your
time and effort! Make
your own Recipes!