Most ideas die in the gap between having them and doing something about them. You think "I swear I have enough in this fridge for something good, I just can't figure out what" while you're standing there deciding, and by the time you've settled on cereal again, it's gone. Or maybe it isn't gone, it's just sitting on a list of things you'll get to eventually, next to "learn Spanish" and "organize the garage."
That's where IFTTT (If This Then That) comes in. It connects your apps and devices so the idea actually happens instead of just sitting there. With Conversational UI, you just say what you want in plain language, skipping the drag-and-drop canvas and the hunt through a list of services for the right trigger.
We wanted proof, so we set a timer: five ideas, one minute each. Or skip ahead and try it yourself.
Minute one: when your horoscope and your inbox align
Build time: 1 minute, 9 seconds
The idea: get a personalized horoscope every morning without opening an app or searching for it.
Here's what we typed: "Add my daily horoscope to my daily email digest, every morning at 7AM."
A few seconds later, the Applet was ready to go: check the clock, pull a horoscope grounded in your zodiac sign's planetary activity, drop it straight into your daily digest. Tomorrow morning, before you've even fully opened your eyes, it'll already be sitting in your inbox, like it's been waiting for you.
Minute two: dinner, solved by a note
Build time: 1 minute, 8 seconds
The idea: stop staring into the fridge wondering what to make with three peppers, half an onion, and a questionable amount of cheese.
So we told it: "When I add a new note in the Note widget listing my ingredients, use Claude to come up with a recipe and email it to me."
It's a fitting one to land on, since this automation actually runs on Claude as part of the request itself. Jot down whatever's staring back at you from the fridge into a note, and a recipe built around those exact ingredients shows up in your inbox, skipping the recipe blogs entirely along with the scroll past someone's life story just to find the ingredient list. Dinner, solved, before the onion's even fully chopped.
Minute three: one post, two platforms
Build time: 1 minute, 6 seconds
The idea: stop manually reposting the same content to every platform you're on.
The ask: "When I add a new pin to my Pinterest board, post it as a tweet with the image on X (Twitter)."
Now this one does the double duty for you. Pin something once, and it's already sitting on Twitter too, image and all, before you've even closed the tab. One less place to remember, one less "wait, did I already post this" moment scrolling back through your own feed.
Minute four: your camera roll, backed up before you think twice
Build time: 59 seconds
The idea: stop worrying about losing photos if something happens to your phone.
The prompt: "When I add a new photo to my camera roll, upload it to Google Photos."
This Applet took it from there, following your camera roll and sending every new shot straight into your Google Photos library. Snap the photo, and somewhere else, a copy already exists, someplace your phone can't touch. Drop your phone in a lake tomorrow, and the photos are the one thing you won't lose.
Minute five: counting sheets, not sheep
Build time: 1 minute, 12 seconds
The idea: keep a running log of sleep data without manually copying numbers out of an app.
Last one, we typed: "When my Oura Ring records a new sleep session, add a row to my Google Sheet with the details."
This Applet does that logging for you automatically. Every session your ring records, a new row appears with the duration, the sleep score, the heart rate, all of it. Wake up, and last night's already logged. Come back in three months, and the story of your sleep is sitting right there in one sheet, instead of scattered across some app's history tab you never actually open.
Five ideas, one minute each
Five prompts, five different corners of your life, and none of them needed more than plain English. Each one started as a sentence and ended as a working automation, connected to real services, running on its own while the rest of your day happens.
That's the real difference. Automation used to require some fluency in how these tools worked under the hood: which service triggers what, which fields need filling in, which order the steps go in. Conversational UI skips all of that. You describe the outcome you want, and it handles the rest.
From horoscopes to sleep data, every single one went from a sentence to a working automation before the minute was up.
Got an idea sitting on your mental list right now? Set your own timer and see what it builds.
