If you haven't heard (or tried) IFTTT yet, you don't know what you are missing.  IFTTT stands for If This Then That and it is a free service online which allows you to automate many of the mundane tasks involved with your digital and social media life. The best part of using IFTTT is that  It literally takes no tech saviness and is done in seconds.   What I am about to show you is 3 genius recipes to use IFTTT to automate something as simple and getting a text message right before it rains, or having your phone ring during a boring meeting, so that you can escape it.

Tomorrow's forecast calls for rain send me an email  [Rain to Email Recipe]

Let me know if it's raining (So I can pack an umbrella) #weather #sms   [rain to sms recipe]

Text to escape [Recipe for SMS to Phone Call]

We invite you to share in the comments the recipes that you come up with.  I'd bet you could come up with some pretty creative stuff!