Whether you are an event planner, running a corporate event or a 17th birthday party, we’ve put together 38 IFTTT (If This Then That) recipes for event social media, productivity, effects, and finances.
From 5 guest events to 500 guest events, there are a lot of steps that go into planning and organizing an event to remember. It can be hard to keep track of all the posts, photos, videos, and other social media during events. Many events also have lots of appointments and meetings to keep track of before the actual event. Then there’s all the vendor invoices and receipts to keep track of.
All of these tasks can almost be a second job. But what if you didn’t have to hire or pay anyone to help out? With IFTTT, you can automate many of these tasks so you can focus on enjoying the event.
Social Media
These social media event recipes are designed to take things like capturing event photos, sharing event news on Facebook, compiling wedding hashtags and scheduling event posts off your plate. You can automate social media event management tasks such as downloading and saving all Instagram pictures with a certain hashtag to a Dropbox folder. Or automatically adding conference tweets to a Twitter spreadsheet.
But the great thing about IFTTT is that if you don’t find a recipe to fill a specific need you have, you can always tweak an existing recipe or make your own!
Grab your IFTTT social media recipes here:
- Share from Feedly to Facebook
- Automatically Tweet Articles with a Specific Tag
- Post RSS Feed items to Facebook
- RSS Feed Autoposts to Twitter & Facebook
- Automatically Share Posts with Specific Tag to LinkedIn
- Tweet Your Instagrams as Native Photos on Twitter
- Keep Facebook and Twitter Profile Pictures In Sync
- Auto Update Twitter Pic When Facebook Pic is Updated
- Save Tweets With Specific Content to Spreadsheet
- Save Specific Twitter Hashtag Tweets to Google Spreadsheet
- Say Thanks to New Twitter Follower
- Archive Twitter Username Mentions to Spreadsheet
- Tweet Happy New Year
- Get Alerts When Your Company or Name is Mentioned on Reddit
- Get Notification When Reddit Post Matches Search
- Get Alerts on Slack When Your Company is Mentioned on Reddit
- Pin Instagrams to Pinterest Board When Using a Specific Hashtag
- Share YouTube Videos to Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook Pages
- Post Instagram Photos to Flickr
- Post Instagram Photos to Tumblr
- Add Tweets With Conference Hashtag to Google Spreadsheet
- Add Wedding Photos Tagged With Your Wedding Hashtag to Dropbox
- Save Tweets With Wedding Hashtag to Dropbox
- Use a Hashtag in a Photo Caption to Save It To Dropbox
- Save Instagram Photos with Hashtag to Dropbox
Productivity
There sure is a lot to keep track of when planning an event so these recipes should make things a little easier. We put together a lot of useful tasks to automate such as using a voicemail to create a calendar event when you’re on the go, automatically silencing your phone for events with a certain tag or getting a calendar reminder of the weather for the next day or the time of the day’s sunset so you don’t miss those golden hour pictures.
Grab your IFTTT productivity recipes here:
- Transcribe Voicemail to Evernote With Link to Original Audio
- Send New Contacts a Nice To Meet You Email
- Add Reminder to Calendar If It’s Going to Rain Tomorrow
- Always Be Prepared For the Weather
- Launch Google Maps Navigation 15 Minutes Before Your Next Meeting With Driving Directions
- If Labeled Drive in Gmail Save to Google Drive
- Google Calendar Weekly Digest
- Convert Email to Event in Google Calendar
- Get Notified When Event is About to Start
- Post Reminder in Slack Before an Event Starts
- Use Note Widget to Place Do Not Disturb Event On Your Calendar At a Time of Your Choosing
- Add Today’s Sunset Event to Calendar
- Automatically Silence Phone During Calendar Events with Hashtag Silent
Event Effects
If you’re planning a small event or have a small team, these recipes will help take some of the event ambiance tasks off your hands. No prior technical experience required. You can use a voice command to trigger a pre-planned lighting scene or set up a stream of Instagram photos to play as a slideshow.
Grab your IFTTT event effects recipes here:
Finances
Sadly, most events aren’t free. Usually, there are a lot of receipts and costs to keep track of. With these recipes, you can automate the collection and organization of any vendor invoices, orders, attendee tickets and more.
Grab your IFTTT finances recipes here:
- Automatically Sync Gmail Emails With Receipts, Orders, & Invoices to a Google Spreadsheet
- Add Row to Spreadsheet from PayPal receipt
- Add New Square Payments to a Spreadsheet
Don’t forget that if there is a recipe listed here that’s not quite what you’re looking for, you can always tweak that recipe or create your own recipe from scratch. With these recipes, hopefully, you will be able to have more time spent planning and enjoying your events and less time spent doing tedious, time-consuming tasks.
