Plug and Play Connections between Your Favorite Web Services

I’ve been getting a kick out of using the new iftt service that lets you do clever things like have all your tweets automatically get saved to your Evernote account or make a copy of all your photos you attach to Foursquare checkins and save them in Evernote (or Dropbox). The oddly names site is actually an abbreviation of sorts for “If This Then That.” Once you create an account, you can authorize various services you use (Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Pinboard, Instagram, to name a few) to be accessed by ifft. First, you think of some task you’d like to accomplish, let save a copy of any photo in Facebook where you have been tagged. Then you define the trigger by picking what service has got something or doing something that you’d like to do something with. Then you define the action that tells ifft what other service will be doing that something. It sounds more complicated than it really is (the site explains it better on its “wtf” page than I do). If you browse the list of most popular “recipes” (tasks that have been created by users so far), you can get an idea of all the cool things you can do with ifft. So far all of my tasks send stuff to Evernote, as that is becoming my tool of choice for bookmarking sites and keeping notes.