The ultimate automation stack in 2026

Everyone’s got a stack now.

You've got an AI for thinking, a newsletter platform for writing, a notes app for capturing, and approximately fourteen other tools you opened in January with great intentions. Your browser has so many pinned tabs it looks like a city skyline.

And yet the gap between all those tools is still your problem to manage: the link that needs sharing, the output that needs saving, the thing you meant to log last Tuesday that is just gone.

The problem isn't the tools. The tools are great. The problem is the space between the tools, the thirty seconds of friction that adds up to an hour by Thursday afternoon.

That's what IFTTT is for. It connects over 1000 apps and services so the handoffs between them happen automatically. Set it up once, forget about it, let your stack actually work like one.

Stop losing your AI outputs

Here's a thing that keeps happening: you get a great AI-generated response, use it once, and then it disappears into the void. Next week you're starting from scratch, asking the same question you already asked.

The fix is making sure your AI outputs have somewhere to go. Connect them to IFTTT and responses get routed to Drive, Docs, your inbox, wherever actually makes sense for how you work. The good stuff stops disappearing.

Your content should do its own PR

Publishing something feels great right up until the moment you realize you have to go tell everyone about it. You post, then you go to X or Bluesky. Then LinkedIn. Then maybe you remember you have a Discord. By the time you're done, the dopamine from publishing has completely worn off.

Whether you're running a Substack, a blog, or a YouTube channel, these Applets handle the announcing. Every new post goes out to wherever your audience actually lives the moment it's published, automatically, without a second trip through your browser. You can also pull newsletters and feeds you read into a reading list so the good stuff doesn't get buried in your inbox.

Your morning routine has a bug in it

Not a metaphorical bug. An actual, reproducible bug. Every morning, same conditions, same broken output: you wake up, you're reactive instead of intentional, and somehow you've already checked your email before you've had coffee.

The issue isn't willpower. It's that your devices are set up to demand your attention the moment you're conscious, and nobody ever told them to behave differently. A few automations and suddenly your morning has a different default: lights that ease you awake, a weather report waiting before you've opened a single app, a focus block that starts before your inbox does. Fix the bug. Ship a better morning.

Be the person who always remembers

There are people in your life who just...remember things. Your friend who texts you on your work anniversary. The colleague who follows up exactly when they said they would. Your aunt who has never once forgotten a birthday in forty years.

You've always assumed they're just wired differently. They're not. They have systems.

The same goes for work. New items in monday, tasks moving between Todoist and Basecamp, the birthday you almost forgot, the thing you actually care about that keeps getting bumped to tomorrow, all of it stays visible when you've got automations keeping tabs on it for you.

And when you want a record you can actually go back to, logging it all to Google Sheets means nothing gets lost.

Automate the things you'd be embarrassed to admit you keep forgetting

You know the ones. The air filter you've replaced twice in five years. The bill you've paid late so many times your bank has started to feel judgmental. The medication you take "most" mornings. The library book currently buried under a pile of things you definitely know the location of.

Nobody's brain was designed to remember when the air filter needs changing. That's not what brains are for. Automation handles the low-stakes stuff that never feels urgent enough to deal with until it very much is.

Your side project deserves a real workflow

You're using Cursor to write the code, GitHub to manage it, Todoist to track what's left, and Slack to loop in anyone else who cares. That's a real stack. The problem is none of those tools talk to each other unless you make them, and when you're already splitting time between a day job and something you're actually trying to ship, that overhead adds up fast.

Automating the connective work, the "did you see this PR?" messages, the Jira issues that should exist but don't yet, the deal update nobody wants to write, means the time you do carve out actually goes toward building.

The fastest automations in your stack

Not every automation needs a complex trigger. Sometimes you just want a button that does a thing, or something that captures whatever you type and sends it somewhere useful, or a camera that turns a photo into an action. The Button, Camera, and Note widgets are the fastest path from "I should do something about this" to it actually being done.

The part of your stack that's actually fun

Work and all, at the end of the day most of us just want to sit down and play something. And honestly, that part of your life deserves the same treatment as everything else on this list, not more admin, just the right stuff happening automatically so you can get to the actual game faster.

Know when a Steam wishlist game goes on sale before you would have noticed. Have your Dota 2 match results posted to Discord so your squad sees them without you having to say anything. Get an AI hot take the moment a new Hearthstone card drops. Gaming has its own rhythm, and IFTTT can keep up with it.

And the list keeps growing

We add new services every week, so whatever's in your stack right now, there's a good chance IFTTT already connects to it, or will soon. Here's a look at some of the newest ones:

The glue is the point

Here's the thing about a great automation stack: no single tool in it does everything. Your AI is smart. Your newsletter platform is a distribution machine. Your morning routine, your relationships, your quietly festering to-do list, they all have apps claiming to help. But those apps don't talk to each other by default. They just sit there, waiting for you to do the connecting manually.

IFTTT is what connects them. It's not the flashiest thing in your stack, but it's the thing that makes everything else worth having. Because a stack that works together beats a collection of apps you're paying for every month and manually duct-taping yourself.

No code. No complicated setup. Pick a trigger and an action, and let your tools finally act like they're on the same team. Join IFTTT for free today!