Found a thing called ifttt – If this, then that. It glues interweb thingies together.
So far, I set up a task to mirror all my Google+ posts to my Facebook wall. I set up a task to automatically add any item I star in Google Reader to Instapaper. I set up a task to text my phone when the forecast calls for rain. Those were all found task recipes that were on the site.
The previous post is my first attempt at creating brand new tasks. If I share something with a note in Reader, then it should appear here on Perfidy. However, if it just posts anything I share at all, then I’ll have to start over.
Interesting tool, check it out.
[wik]: Okay, it just posts anything I share. Not so good.
[alsø wik]: Tried another way. Better in that it only picks up things I share with a note, but I can’t use the note for the blog post title like I can if I’m pulling from reader. Hmmn.
[alsø alsø wik]: Tried to do it via email, which does allow me to control the title, and which ones would go here to Perfidy; but it trashes all links because it’s taking the plain text of the message body. Which doesn’t work.
[Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?]: Well, I can get a standard title, like, “From the feed” or something, and have the comment appear in the body of the post. Which works well enough. Still have the problem of it posting everything I share, which is more than I want to go here.
[See the løveli lakes]: Very frustrating. You can trigger off starred, liked and shared items. But only shared items have access to the comment. Ick. And using a standard feed as a trigger buries the comment in with all the other text, and you can’t control the post title at all.
[The wøndërful telephøne system]: So, if I change my sharing behavior – that will affect two people, and not greatly. I can cope with that. But I still have the mildly annoying issue of using the comment field either as post title, or as post content, but not both. Using the shared item’s title as the post title is awkward, because I can’t control the length or formatting – for example, Instapundit always has titles in all caps. (Shouting at the world since 2001!)
But using a standard title, like “From the feed” gives the reader no clue as to the content, and funny (or at least mildly amusing) titles are kind of a thing for blogs and Perfidy. But if I use it for that, I’m left with just a link in the body of the post. I can’t actually comment on the thing I’m linking to.
I think I’m leaning toward using the comment for actually commenting.
[And mäni interesting furry animals]: The thing that will annoy me is the repetitive, “From the feed” titles.