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IFTTT: Recipes for productivity

IFTTT
IFTTT (If this then that) is a very useful web service and while it is not the ordinary type of a productivity application, it can be used to automate so many tasks in your life, so it may have to do really much about your productivity.
The use of the service is really plain and simple. The user selects one of the supported services (and there are a lot of them) and defines a trigger and the supported action to be carried out from the system. This whole set of data is called a recipe. 
Except from the recipes you can create, there are plenty of ready-made ones by other users. I will mainly focus on those which could enhance productivity systems based on specific applications.


Of course this list isn't a final one. There are lots of recipes for accomplishing various tasks and the best thing is to get some ideas from those ready-made recipes for your own needs.

Todo.txt
  1. Turn starred emails into todo.txt items
  2. Add emails with todo label to todo.txt
  3. Calendar to todo.txt 
  4. Add Todo.txt Item by SMS
  5. Forward an email to IFTTT and edit the subject to create new todo.txt items
  6. Add Weekly Grocery to todo.txt 
  7. Add todo.txt item via IM
  1. Keep track of my completed tasks in a Google Spreadsheet
  2. Add task to Reminders > Adds task to Wunderlist (Works with Siri)
  3. Add new tasks from "Reminders List" to Google Calendar with task details
  4. Quick add 'calendar' tasks to my Google Calendar
  5. Siri to Evernote
Toodledo
  1. Add tasks to your Google Calendar based on their due dates 
  2. Label "To Do" in Gmail to add task in Toodledo
  3. Add all new calendar events to your to-do list
  4. Create new Toodledo tasks from voicemail
  5. If I create a new reminder on iPhone, add a task to Toodledo
  6. Track finished tasks in Evernote
Evernote
  1. Star ★ a Gmail, send it to Evernote
  2. Pocket to Evernote
  3. Make an Evernote Journal based on your Calendar
  4. When a meeting is added to my calendar, automatically create a note
  5. Create a new task in Asana whenever you share a note in Evernote
Other
  1. Google Calendar Events to Wunderlist Tasks 
  2. Starred Gmail -> Wunderlist task
  3. Star a GMail, make a task in Any.Do
  4. Create task in Asana when mail labeled Todo
  5. Add a task to Any.do via SMS

http://ifttt.com