Sunday 1 February 2015

IFTTT - taking the social out of social media

I've been playing with IFTTT (If This Then That - an Internet gizmo which does basic tasks when particular things happen). It features some great efficiency things such as automatically posting Happy Birthday messages on FB or messages of congratulations to LinkedIn connections when they get a new job.

I can imagine a whole world of awkward when you actually see someone and don't know about their birthday or new job, but I think everyone knows I'm vague enough to post something and forget about it immediately anyway. :-)

Last time I looked at it, I got as far as thinking "hey, that's cool" but it kinda looked too hard. There are a lot of preset "recipes" available now, including ones which will run little jobs on your phone like texting when you leave somewhere. I'm currently running a couple of things to collate data from my Misfit Shine and save it to Evernote (I hope) and also email me a weekly summary (probably).