Automate social tasks with IFTTT recipes

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Have you ever felt the need to automate your social jobs? Have you ever thought that, if we’re this far into the Web 2.0 revolution, this far into social networking tie-ins, this far into being compulsively addicted to our timelines and Tweets and Instagram feeds, why the Web isn’t smart enough to feel what we need, and do some of our more mundane chores on its own?

Good questions, both. As luck often does have it, there is an answer in the offing.
With IFTTT, you totally can. IFTTT (pronounced like the ‘ift’ from ‘gift’) is a web service that lets you create your own ‘recipes’ for automated tasks. Following the ‘if this then that’ philosophy, IFTTT lets you choose a trigger event (say someone posting a photo of you on Facebook) and then a corresponding action event (like say sending it to your Dropbox photo library). What scenarios could you have? Well, you could get an SMS alert if it’s going to be rain the day you have your appointments scheduled (using the weather services). You could get a mail or add a new free Steam or GOG game to your account. You could have the latest episode of your favourite podcast automatically uploaded to your devices. Or even create a separate Evernote notebook for your Flipkart or eBay purchases, so that you can easily keep track of them.
It’s infinitely useful, and sometimes you wonder why you didn’t know of this functionality before. Well, now you do.