This is a step by step tutorial on how to use IFTTT Website.

1. IFTTT
Website
Tutorial

2. What is
IFTTT?

3. IFTTT
(short for IF
This Then That)

4. is a service
that enables
users to

5. connect
different web
applications

6. (Ex: Facebook,
Evernote,
Dropbox, etc.)

7. together
through simple
conditional

8. statements
known as
Recipes.

9. IFTTT lets
you create
powerful

10. connections
with one
simple

11. statement.

12. Some of the
words to be
familiar

13. with are
the following:
Channels,

14. Triggers,
Actions,
Ingredients

15. and Recipe.

16. Channels

17. Channels are
the basic
building

18. blocks of
IFTTT. Each
Channel has

19. its own
Triggers and
Actions.

20. Some example
Channels are:

21. Triggers

22. The This part
of a Recipe
is a Trigger.

23. Some example
Triggers are
“I’m tagged

24. in a photo in
Facebook”
or “I checked

25. in on
Foursquare.”

26. Actions

27. The That part
of a Recipe
is an Action.

28. Some example
Actions are
“Send me a

29. text message”
Or “Create
a status

30. message on
Facebook.”

31. Ingredients

32. Pieces of data
from a Trigger
are called

33. Ingredients.
For example,
the Ingredients

34. of an Email
trigger could
be: subject,

35. body,
attachments,
received date

36. and the
sender’s
address.

37. Recipes

38. Personal
Recipes are
a combination

39. of a Trigger
and an Action
from your

40. active
Channels.
Personal

41. Recipes
look like
this:

43. Shared
Recipes are
useful

44. templates
shared by the
IFTTT

45. community.
Shared
Recipes

46. look
like this:

48. Let’s
get
started!

49. Locate your
favorite
browser.

50. Click icon

51. In address bar,
Type:
www.ifttt.com

53. Press Enter

54. Here’s the
home page of
IFTTT

56. For better
experience of
using the site,

57. let’s sign
up for an
account.

58. Click

59. Fill this out
for details
and click

60. Create
account
button.

63. Click

64. If creating
an account is
successful,

65. user will be
redirected to
dashboard:

67. To start,
let’s click on
Use button.

69. User will be
redirected to
this page:

71. To create a
Recipe, click
on Create

72. on the upper
portion of
the site.

73. Click

74. Click

75. Choose
Trigger
Channel

80. In our example,
let’s use
Twitter

81. Click

82. User is asked
to activate
Twitter Account

83. Click

84. Click

85. Click

86. Click

87. Click

88. Click

89. This part is
created, let’s
do the

90. That part.

91. Click

95. Click
Google
Drive

96. Click

97. Click

98. Click

99. Click

100. Click

101. Click

102. Click

103. Click

104. This Recipe
means that if
you post a

105. tweet including
retweets in your
Twitter account,

106. a document
will be
created in

107. your Google
Drive
account.

108. Congratulations!
You’ve just
created your

109. first Recipe.
Do this for
any other

110. applications
in the list to
to save

111. time and
effort.