Get more out of OneNote and OneDrive with these IFTTT recipes

In recent times, OneNote and OneDrive have gained more and more priority within Microsoft, adding a large number of users as a result. functions that have made them grow in popularity little by little. One of these functions is the API that both services have, which allows developers to create applications and services that integrate with them.

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One of the services that integrates with OneDrive and OneNote is the famous IFTTT For those who don&39;t know it, it is a tool whose name means If this, then that with which we can create recipes in which an action of ours in some service triggers another useful actionAn example of a recipe is something like: if I check-in at my children&39;s school, send them an SMS saying that I have already come to pick them up ."

And as you might be imagining, IFTTT contains tons of recipes that incorporate interactions with OneNote and OneDrive to make our lives easier. We leave you below with a selection of what we believe are most useful.

Save notes via SMS

OneNote is available on all major mobile operating systems today, but if we also want to be able to save notes from a basic phone without internet (feature-phone) this recipe can be useful for us nso allows you to save notes by sending an SMS. Of course, we must take into account that the number to which the SMS must be sent is from the United States and that this may imply additional charges.

If we live in the United States we can go a step further, and activate a recipe to record voice notes in OneNote through a phone call.

Collect links from Twitter, Facebook and others

In these days when we live under the reign of social networks, it is common for us to share or find links of all kinds in different services. Faced with such dispersion, many may be interested in the idea of ​​collecting in OneNote all the valuable links they find in their path.

To achieve this, IFTTT offers us recipes such as the following:

Integrate iOS task manager with OneNote

Thanks to its cross-platform nature and its support for check-boxes it is very easy to use OneNote as a geasy task blind to access from any device.But so much the better if it's possible to integrate OneNote with native task managers for each platform. And that is exactly what this recipe offers us, at least for iOS.

Archive important Gmail emails to OneNote

"Microsoft already offers an easy way to save emails in OneNote from any device: forwarding the email of interest to [email protected] However, with this IFTTT recipe Gmail users can have things even easier, by being able to save emails in the notepad simply by adding the OneNote label Much more comfortable if we want to save multiple emails at once. And there is also another recipe that sends all emails marked with a star to OneNote."

Save all your photos to OneDrive (all, all)

OneDrive comes out of the box with the ability to sync local photos from our smartphones, tablets, and PCs, but there are other places where our photos are also stored that are out of OneDrive's reach… unless that we turn to IFTTT to solve it.

An example is the Facebook photos uploaded by other people in which we are tagged Many probably like the idea of ​​having these photos backed up locally or in your own cloud, and thus access them more easily, and not be exposed to the photos disappearing if it is who uploaded them your profile is deleted. Nothing complicated, with this recipe all the Facebook photos in which we are tagged will be automatically saved to OneDrive.

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With this other recipe you can save all the Instagram photos that you like.And if we use iOS or Android, we may be interested in these recipes that allow us to back up all the photos we save on our devices, including screenshots, downloaded photos, and received via WhatsApp and the like (OneDrive app is only capable of syncing the Camera Roll album)."

If we become stalkers there is also a recipe with which to save in OneDrive all the Instagram photos uploaded by a person of choice (the default option is to save those of Kim Kardashian, but we can customize it with just typing someone else's username). A less psychotic use of this recipe is to set it to back up photos of family and close friends

And finally, we have a recipe with which to download to OneDrive the images that we upload to our Flickr account (there is also one for 500px).

Auto save all Gmail attachments and favorite songs from SoundCloud

If we're fond of finding new songs on SoundCloud and then adding them to our local collection, this recipe will save us a step from that process by automatically downloading to OneDrive all the songs that we mark as favorites (and that are available for download, obviously).

And in the same line of backing up everything, there is a recipe that saves all the attachments that we receive in Gmail on OneDrive.

Send files from Dropbox to OneDrive

Although OneDrive is more convenient than Dropbox in terms of prices, the latter is still widely used, so it is common for us to use it when a folder or file is shared with us.

Luckily, to avoid having to install 2 file synchronization applications, we have an IFTTT recipe that automatically sends the files that we have in Dropbox to a folder on OneDriveThe problem is that it is not possible to synchronize all the content of Dropbox, but only what is inside a certain folder, so if you share files with us through that service, we will have to go to the web and copy/move it to the folder that is synchronized.

Save Pocket and Feedly bookmarks as PDF to OneDrive

And finally, a strange idea, but one that can be interesting to more than one person. These are two recipes with which we can save as PDF on OneDrive those interesting readings that we have in Pocket or appearing in Feedly This can be particularly useful for those who have a Windows 8 tablet with an intermittent internet connection, as they can alwayshave your favorite articles available to read offline Of course, to use the Feedly recipe we must be subscribed to the paid version of this RSS reader.

What other IFTTT recipes for Microsoft services do you know?

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