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Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by Pamar »

oddlyaromatic wrote: post #39
kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

I have tried it out for various things but the one I rely on most is "call and leave a message then get that message emailed to me" I ONLY use this feature for logging my work tasks and client visits throughout the day. Basically I always forget to record my time spent at various locations or when I do extra work outside of scheduled hours. I have ifttt as a contact in my phone named Bender. When I'm in my car going…

Maybe you could try Moves (https://www.moves-app.com) to help with that? I use it to log when I arrive and leave my office and it could easily handle multiple clients/locations.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by roylez »

kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

I have heard of people using Huginn and jasonetteios[1] to build ios apps.

[1]: https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by splitbrain »

gegtik wrote: post #41

i saw ifttt advertising an overhaul lately only to find you STILL can't join two conditions (eg. if I leave work AND its past 5pm, send a text)

This. IFTTT is much too simplistic for anything useful. Sure I can let it save all Gmail attachments to Google Drive. But if I want to do that for only certain attachments I'm out of luck.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by Zemke »

kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

I track my time daily with a recipe using my iOS location to add my arrive and leaving time at work to my Google Calendar.

https://ifttt.com/applets/133380p

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by gideonparanoid »

Pamar wrote: post #51
oddlyaromatic wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have tried it out for various things but the one I rely on most is "call and leave a message then get that message emailed to me" I ONLY use this feature for logging my work tasks and client visits throughout the day. Basically I always forget to record my time spent at various locations or when I do extra work outside of scheduled hours. I have ifttt as a contact in my phone named Bender. When I'm in my car going…

Maybe you could try Moves ( https://www.moves-app.com ) to help with that? I use it to log when I arrive and leave my office and it could easily handle multiple clients/locations.

I can vouch for Moves, used it a lot before Facebook bought it. Similar to Google's location history.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by boogadaboogada »

codezero wrote: post #30
kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

I rely on it for something that is pretty simple: notification if it's going to rain tomorrow. It doesn't rain enough where I live for me to be in the habit of checking, so having something sitting in the background that will remind me the ~5 times a year I care is really really helpful. I ride a bike to work so it helps me prep my rain gear. My morning commute time doesn't take into account finding gear and getting…

Same for me. I never check the weather and had too many times the situation after a morning commute by train to be totally unprepared to the destination weather. With that simple recipe never happened again.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by Angostura »

flashman wrote: post #49
kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

I use IFTTT to email me every time a file is deleted from my Dropbox, after a nasty incident where several gigabytes of baby photos were silently deleted. Luckily I noticed soon enough to restore them. I'm not sure why it happened or whether it could happen again, and Dropbox doesn't have a "this folder is write only" option, and I rarely delete things from Dropbox, so it's nice to have.

Why not just set the folder rights so that things can't be deleted?

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by escapologybb »

kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

Absolutely, I have medication that I have to take the 72 hours so I have a recipe that the checks Google calendar for the event that says "medication", and when the recipe finds it at 7:15 AM every 3rd day it makes all of the LIFX bulbs in the house flash green. This is my only reminder as relying upon these recipes for life-saving medication is not a good idea, but it has been an excellent aid d'memoir which hasn't let me down once in about 3 years.

I am quadriplegic and IFTTT as the central hope the so many different aspects of my life that I would be completely lost without it, it's a brilliant tool for disabled people even though it wasn't designed as such. I must have 30 or 40 recipes that I use on a daily basis for things ranging from medication reminders, turning the lights on and off, controlling the fan in my bedroom, turning the lights off in the house when I go out and turning them back on again when I come home amongst loads of other things. It would take something pretty spectacular to tempt me away from their service.

That said, not entirely convinced about the new changes, maybe it's just teething troubles but I've had problems with a couple of recipes over the past week that have been rock solid for at least 3 years so hopefully they will settle down because that would be fairly catastrophic failure if they didn't.

Still, 9/10 would recommend!

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