In the life cycle of innovation adoption, I have never been
an Innovator. The displaced pieces of hardware strewn throughout the house and
storage suggests I have experience as an unsuccessful Early Adopter. Contrary
to my nature, I forced myself to wait until the second generation of iPads. I
no longer immediately jump at any fanciful software that makes claims of
organizing my life or making me smarter, faster, or more insightful. For more
than a year I have been reading about the amazing, simple yet powerful
capabilities of ifttt.com - IF This Then That. After yet again reading about it
in another "best tools" article, I finally signed up. Now I have an
account and have exactly no idea of how to make it do what it claims it so easily
can do.
So far I have written multiple "recipes", all of
which I have deleted, except for one. The single remaining "recipe"
is to have my Blogger posts be saved on Evernote. It seems simple, but I had to
watch multiple YouTube videos to try to figure it out. Each of the videos
should have said there are young, technically savvy people in this world, and
there is everyone else. I recognize I do not fit in the category of young
anymore, but I hoped and considered myself technically savvy. Until now. What
should be so hard about having e-mails from a given address be automatically
sent to a folder in Evernote? I suspect for that group of people of whom I am
not one, there is nothing hard about it. I will continue to plod along trying
to simplify, even though it is incredibly complex for me and hopefully this
post will show up in my Evernote account in the right folder.
