{"id":97320,"date":"2018-02-16T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=97320"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:39:34","slug":"all-about-ifttt-and-its-purpose-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/all-about-ifttt-and-its-purpose-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"All about IFTTT and its purpose: part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wondered if it might be possible to combine your social media, messaging services, and email into one, so you could spend less time switching between them? In fact, you can.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though several tools link these services, the best known is <\/span>IFTTT<\/b><\/a>. This web page is for those who spend all day online for work. Today at Softonic, we\u2019re bringing you the first part of a guide dedicated to this service so that you can make the most of it in no time: W<\/strong><\/span>hat is<\/b> IFTTT and its purpose?<\/b><\/p>\n

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\r\n IFTTT allows you to mashup different programs together. For example, you can program the app to have your post-exercise Fitbit activity saved to a Google Drive spreadsheet.<\/span>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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What is IFTTT?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The first part of our guide is dedicated to getting to know a little more about IFTTT, which stands for \u201c<\/span>If This Then That<\/b>.\u201d The key to this phrase is the programming concept of the \u201cif\u201d function, where different functions are grouped together to simplify everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

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