Oh, I will never cease to be impressed by location stuff. You can’t believe the number of times I now use location-based reminders on my iPhone: “Remind me to phone Angela when I leave here”, “Remind me to buy milk at the supermarket”. On and on and on it goes. How did we get by without it?

And today IFTTT – don’t you always have to stop to count the Ts in that? I should set up a TextExpander snippet, hang on… right, I have now, thanks – where were were?

Yes, IFTTT (used my TextExpander snippet there, so I did) has added location features. You have to be using iOS but you can now have IFTTT see when you get somewhere and then make it do something. Their examples are:

“Nearly home? Direct Message the person who should know [via Twitter]”

“When you arrive in New York City, send yourself a map of the subway”

That first one reminds me of the days when so many of us believed we were alone in giving three rings and hanging up when we needed to tell someone that. And the second makes me shudder at the thought of the download cost. I’d want a “Before you leave the UK, send yourself all the big stuff like PDFs and images”.

But the idea is there and it’s a gorgeous addition to IFTTT.

Read some more here: https://ifttt.com/ios_location