ifttt.com is a brand new thing that connects the ins-and-outs of websites like Readability with triggers and timers, using the simple logic: “if this then that.”
Why are we so excited? Our Ideas site is chock full of requests for integration with Evernote, Twitter, Tumblr, and other sites you use to find and to share the stories you read.
With ifttt, you can add to your reading list by email, by favorite-ing a tweet, starring in Google Reader, or even automatically add all posts from any RSS feed. You can also automatically share Readability favorites to Facebook, to Twitter, to Tumblr, and to other sites as ifttt expands.
Best of all, you can share the tasks you create as Recipes for other users. We’ve gone ahead and made a bunch of recipes to help you get started. We’re eager to hear how you use ifttt with Readability!
Signup is free and the brief introduction takes just a minute to read.
This is nothing less than absolutely fantastic.
However, I do have some feedback. One of the recipes is adding a link to Readability by fave’ing a tweet. But if that tweet does not contain a link, a “missing link” entry will be added to Readability.
How to handle this? Readability does not allow for the bulk removal of entries. ifttt does not offer a solution yet either.
I think you guys need to reach out to solve these edge cases and improve their UX, to prevent too much confusion and frustration.
I use ifttt with Readability, albeit indirectly. With Reeder, it’s part of my system of sharing links along with a comment through Google Reader notes. So anything I post as a note gets sent to Facebook as a link, to Twitter as a post, and to my Posterous blog. This allows me to have control of what posts and to add a comment of my own.
Wim: we talked to the wonderful folks at @ifttt about that and they’re gonna think it over. They already fixed some tiny things with our shortened links on Facebook and have been a complete pleasure to chat with. So thrilled about this!
tamaracks: That’s clever! Wouldn’t it be amazing if there were an app where you could write a single note and choose where/how to share it?
Enjoying mobile reading much more now.
First, at ifttt, tried to use Readability-authored recipe to add to my reading list by email.
Reading list item kept coming back as “Missing Link,” when link was included in body of email with #read as subject.
Used recipe authored by cbrendel for same task. Task was triggered and acted upon without error.
For cbrendel’s task, action field read only {{Body}}, versus Readability-authored task which had {{BodyHTML}} in action field.
I was not able to replicate cbrendel’s recipe myself, as {{Body}} only in action field was not allowed.
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For some reason I could not activate ifttt ingredient. Readability page says its ok (it even let me revoke the authorization), ifttt says it cannot activate.
The triggering doesn’t seem to work for ifttt when I favorite an item in Readability.
I have two favorited items and I want to email them to my Posterous account, which will then autopost to my SquareSpace site.
However, it’s been two hours and several manual checks, but no trigger occurs when favoriting a new item in the list.
I don’t know if this is an ifttt issue, or a readability issue. Did something get changed, protocol-wise since the iftttt task was created? Does this currently trigger for anyone else?
Kent
It would also be nice to trigger ifttt whenever any item is added to my reading list, regardless of whether it has been favorited.