If This Then That – Automate your online/real life

As we live in a fast-pace environment, productivity tools can be your best friend in the following terms:

• save time
• stay organised

If This Then That is a great new tool to stay organise and connects various web platform/services together to automate common tasks on the web. The following are the most popular platforms supported:

• Bitly
• Blogger
• Buffer
• Craigslist
• Date & Time
• Delicious
• Diigo
• Dropbox
• Email
• Evernote
• Facebook
• Facebook Pages
• Feed
• Flickr
• Foursquare
• Gmail
• Google Calendar
• Google Drive
• Google Reader
• Google Talk
• Instagram
• Instapaper
• Last.fm
• LinkedIn
• Phone Call
• Pinboard
• Posterous
• Salesforce Chatter
• SMS
• SoundCloud
• Stocks
• Storify
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• Vimeo
• Weather
• WordPress
• YouTube

The service uses triggers on one side of the connection to execute actions on the other side.

Some example to start implementing this for your benefit:

• Thanks your followers with a Direct Message
• When you shot an Instagram photo, save this in Google Drive
• When you write an business article and you tweet about it with a particular hash tag, automatically publish this on LinkedIn
• Send your DM on Twitter to your phone as an SMS
• Log your Twitter Direct Messages in a Google Drive spreadsheet (Comment: when will Twitter change the way it shows the Direct Messages?)
• If somebody tweet with a particular hashtag, mention his/her Twitter Handle and suggest them your website