Sure, IFTTT can be useful, making you more productive and helping you get work done faster. But it can also be fun—a lot of fun, in fact, especially if one of your hobbies is outer space. I’m going to highlight some of my favorite IFTTT recipes that let you know just what’s going on outside of the Earth’s orbit.
If This Then That is an incredibly handy automation service, bridging the gap between various apps, accounts, and devices to boost your productivity. And this free Web service is even better when paired with an iPhone. Here are six IFTTT tricks designed to bring iOS to a whole new level.
A lot of Web services promise to make your life easier, but IFTTT—which stands for “If This, Then That”—is one of the few that actually does. It works by connecting various online and mobile services with triggers and reactions. When one thing happens (you receive an email with an attachment, you label a message), another thing will automatically happen (that attachment gets saved somewhere). These combinations of triggers and reactions are called Recipes, and they’re freely available on IFTTT’s Website.
Gmail is one of the Web services I use the most often, and I both love it and hate it. It’s a great email tool, but too often my inbox is overloaded with important tasks, documents, and stuff I just really need to remember. I found several IFTTT recipes that promise to make using Gmail just a tad bit better. Here are a few of my favorites.