How To Use Ifttt To Autopost To Your Social Media Profiles 2014 by Thephenomenalva

How You Can Use IFTTT to Auto-Post to Your Social Media Profiles
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If This Then That

{ pronounced as ift in gift }
IFTTT is a free online tool that enables you
2014 ThePhenomenalVA.com How You Can Use IFTTT to Auto-Post to Your Social Media Profiles
to connect your social media profiles together
by setting up a simple formula called Recipes.
Hmm... What kind of recipes could it be?
The formula?
How to Use IFTTT
Creating an Account
Go to ifttt.com
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Click on Join IFTTT
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Enter your chosen Username,
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Email Address,
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Type your password
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Then re-type it
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Click on Create Account
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This is your IFTTT Dashboard.
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To start cooking up those recipes,
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Click on the Create a Recipe button
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This page will appear
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Click on the word this
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The formula?
This page will appear
This page contains different social media profile icons called
The formula?
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Trigger
Triggers serve as the go signal of the recipe .
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Creating Your Recipe: Step One
Activating the trigger
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Lets try creating a simpler recipe to help you understand the process.
Lets click on the Evernote icon
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By default, the trigger channels are all inactive.
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To activate, click on the blue Activate button
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A login authorization prompt will appear
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Enter your Evernote username or email address
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And your password in the fields provided
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Then click on the green Sign in button
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Next, the authorization pop up appears
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Click on Authorize
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Click on Continue to the next step button
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Creating Your Recipe: Step Two
Choosing the trigger
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For Evernote, theres only one available trigger
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This trigger fires every time you share a new public note link
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Click on this trigger
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This will appear
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Click Create Trigger
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This appears. Click on the word that.
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Creating Your Recipe: Step Four
Activating the action
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The channel page appears
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This time, youller tr ig g choose an Action Channel.

For my Action channel, Ill choose Google Drive
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This means that if I publicly share a new note link on Evernote,

It will automatically be sent or saved to my Google Drive.

Once you click the Google Drive icon, this will appear.
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Click on the Activate button
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A Google login prompt will appear
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Enter your email address
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And your password.
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Then, click Sign In
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An authorization prompt will appear
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Click on Accept
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Creating Your Recipe: Step Five
Choosing the action
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Click on Continue to the next step button
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This will appear
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Select an action for this channel once triggered
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Say I want to save everything I publicly share on Evernote

to my Google Drive. To do that,

Click on the Create a document action channel
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This will create a new Google Doc to your chosen path.

This page appears
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These are called ingredients
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Creating Your Recipe: Step Six
Adding the ingredients
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By default, the Google Doc (GDoc) title
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Is set to be the same as your Evernote doc title.
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To edit, click on the blue cross button
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Parallel to the Document name field
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Document name ingredient menu dropdown appears
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Click on the drop down arrow to select.
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The Document name ingredient menu appears
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Choose if you want the Document name of your GDoc be the same as...
The title of the Evernote document,
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The http://URL.com of the Evernote document,
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The #tags of the Evernote document,
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Or the CreatedAt of the Evernote document,
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For this tutorial, I want it to be

the same as the Evernote doc title.

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If you want to add more ingredient to your Document name,

the URL of your Evernote doc, for example,

Simply click on the blue cross button again,
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Click on the drop down arrow,
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Click on URL,
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Then click on the Add Ingredient button.
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Lets move on to the Content.

This is the default content of your GDoc
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It contains the title of your Evernote file,
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URL and the date the file was created.
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If you wish to add the tags, all you need to do is...

Click on the blue button
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And add the tags ingredient
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Next, is the destination folder in your GDrive
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You can create a folder in your Google Drive specifically

for the Evernote files you share publicly.

Once youve entered the name of the destination folder here
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You can now click on the Create Action button
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Creating the Recipe

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This is your recipe.

If Evernote shares a new note link publicly,
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Then Google Drive saves a copy of it.
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Click Create Recipe
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You have successfully created your first IFTTT Recipe.

Other Features
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Create more recipes via the Create option here
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And view all the recipes you created here
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Recipes are categorized as personal (private)
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Shared,
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and Favorites.
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To share a recipe, click this Share icon
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To browse shared (public) recipes, click on Browse
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To check a recipe, click the Check icon
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To turn off a recipe, click on the power icon
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Now go along and start making the internet work for you with IFTTT!
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If This Then That

IFTTT is a free online tool that enables you

to connect your social media profiles together

by setting up a simple formula called Recipes.

Hmm... What kind of recipes could it be?

How to Use IFTTT

Click on Join IFTTT

Enter your chosen Username,

Type your password

Click on Create Account

This is your IFTTT Dashboard.

To start cooking up those recipes,

Click on the Create a Recipe button

This page will appear

Click on the word this

This page contains different social media profile icons called

Triggers serve as the go signal of the recipe .

Creating Your Recipe: Step One

Activating the trigger

Lets click on the Evernote icon

By default, the trigger channels are all inactive.

To activate, click on the blue Activate button

A login authorization prompt will appear

Enter your Evernote username or email address

And your password in the fields provided

Then click on the green Sign in button

Next, the authorization pop up appears

Click on Continue to the next step button

Creating Your Recipe: Step Two

Choosing the trigger

For Evernote, theres only one available trigger

Click on this trigger

This will appear

Click Create Trigger

This appears. Click on the word that.

Creating Your Recipe: Step Four

Activating the action

The channel page appears

This time, youller tr ig g choose an Action Channel.

For my Action channel, Ill choose Google Drive

This means that if I publicly share a new note link on Evernote,

It will automatically be sent or saved to my Google Drive.

Click on the Activate button

A Google login prompt will appear

Enter your email address

And your password.

Then, click Sign In

An authorization prompt will appear

Creating Your Recipe: Step Five

Choosing the action

Click on Continue to the next step button

This will appear

Select an action for this channel once triggered

Say I want to save everything I publicly share on Evernote

to my Google Drive. To do that,

Click on the Create a document action channel

This will create a new Google Doc to your chosen path.

This page appears

These are called ingredients

Creating Your Recipe: Step Six

Adding the ingredients

By default, the Google Doc (GDoc) title