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Re: If this then that

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Post by skymt »

A tip for Kindle owners: you can make an ifttt pipeline that sends RSS entries to Instapaper. Then on Instapaper's end, set up automated Kindle delivery. Presto, new posts from your favorite bloggers are now on your Kindle, entirely automatically.

Re: If this then that

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Post by mef »

skymt wrote: post #40
mef wrote: post #36

I've been using this for a few months now, and though my usage is probably atypical, here's what I use it for: - as I abandoned RSS readers a long time ago, new posts on my _very favorite_ (read: top 5) blogs send me a notification email with a link to the post - new tweets by my _very favorite_ (read: top 3) twitter accounts get SMS'd to me Pretty limited usage so far I'll admit, but I'm excited to see what new inpu…

Question: why use ifttt rather than Twitter's SMS support?

I've found Twitter SMS notifications to have spotty performance to my Canadian numbers.

Re: If this then that

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Post by mikeocool »

This site is super great, been using for a little bit to automatically add anything I tag 'read' on delicious to my instapaper queue.

It would be awesome if there was an output to GET/POST to an arbitrary URL. Although, I suppose it sort of opens up a bigger issue, as to make it really useful for integrating with a lot of other arbitrary APIs, you'd probably need a way to support oauth from arbitrary services as well.

Re: If this then that

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Post by Finbarr »

Really like this - huge range of possible applications.

One question though: what, if anything, does ifttt do to detect/prevent infinite loops? If I create a task to copy new photos added to flickr to instragram, and another task to copy new photos added to instagram to flickr, what happens?

Re: If this then that

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Post by bglbrg »

I was excited to set up SMS notification for lots of things, but it took ifttt 26 minutes to notify me of an email. Hmmm. Any particular reason for the latency?

Re: If this then that

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Post by mcritz »

I've been using ifttt to:

* Scour Craigslist for an apartment in San Francisco

* Put indeed.com job searches for "UI Design San Francisco" into Evernote

* Monitor airline fares for the cheapest time to buy a one-way ticket from BOS to SFO

* Text me when the temperature in zip code 94103 rises above 68 to remind myself to get out and enjoy my new city.

THANKS IFTTT! I couldn't have done it without you!

Re: If this then that

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Post by bglbrg »

linden wrote: post #9
utexaspunk wrote: post #5

Really cool idea, and nice site design except for one glaring thing- the size of everything! What the hell!? Is this designed for the legally blind? There isn't even an option in the settings to make things normal-sized... Fix it!

Thanks for the feedback, will work on tightening the UI a bit and getting a bit more on the screen.

another vote up for the large scale. It emphasizes the simplicity and I never mind bigger for ui tasks, it's always easier to use.

Re: If this then that

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Post by linden »

mcritz wrote: post #46

I've been using ifttt to: * Scour Craigslist for an apartment in San Francisco * Put indeed.com job searches for "UI Design San Francisco" into Evernote * Monitor airline fares for the cheapest time to buy a one-way ticket from BOS to SFO * Text me when the temperature in zip code 94103 rises above 68 to remind myself to get out and enjoy my new city. THANKS IFTTT! I couldn't have done it without you!

Thank you! How are you getting the airline fares? Feeds, I imagine, but from where? Lots of people asking how to do that.
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