What's your productivity love language?

Turns out love languages aren't just for figuring out why your partner doesn't appreciate your gift-giving. They also say a lot about how you work and more importantly, how you could be working smarter.

Whether you live for a good progress update, guard your focus time like your life depends on it, or just want the small stuff off your plate, your workflow has its own love language. And once you know it? You can build automations that actually get you.

IFTTT connects to over 1000+ apps and services, so no matter how your brain is wired, there's an Applet that fits. Find your productivity love language below and maybe learn a little something about yourself along the way.

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Words of Affirmation: The encourager

You need to hear it. Because what gets recognized, gets repeated, and seeing your progress is literally what keeps you going. Out of sight, out of mind doesn't work for you. If you can't see the progress, it's hard to feel it.

With IFTTT, encouragers get the feedback loop they deserve. Get your completed Todoist tasks delivered straight to your inbox as a weekly digest or start every Monday with a motivational quote in your inbox to set the tone for the week ahead.

Quality Time: The deep worker

Meetings could have been emails. Notifications can wait. Your phone is probably face-down right now, isn't it?

You do your best work when the world leaves you alone, and you're not apologizing for it. Long, uninterrupted focus sessions are where the magic happens, and anything that breaks that flow is a personal offense.

With IFTTT, deep workers can protect their focus automatically. Press a button to block off Do Not Disturb time directly on Google Calendar or automatically mute your Android device during meetings scheduled on your Google Calendar so nothing interrupts your flow.

Acts of Service: The delegator

You didn't get into this line of work to rename files, forward emails, or manually copy things from one app to another. That's not a workflow, that's a chore list and you've got better things to do.

You have a lot on your plate. The last thing you need is more small tasks eating into the time you actually need to think.

With IFTTT, delegators can finally live that dream. Save email attachments to Dropbox automatically so nothing gets lost in your inbox or have new iOS Calendar events added to Todoist as tasks automatically, so your to-do list always reflects what's actually on your plate.

Receiving Gifts: The curator

You don't chase information — the best stuff finds you. A relevant article that lands in your inbox right when you need it, an alert that saves you from missing something important, a Monday morning roundup that sets you up for the week. That's not luck, that's a well-trained workflow.

With IFTTT, curators wake up to everything they need already waiting for them. Get Hacker News top stories delivered as a daily email digest so you never miss what's buzzing or log your RescueTime daily summary to Google Sheets automatically to keep tabs on where your time actually goes.

Physical Touch: The hands-on builder

You read the instructions, sure, but mostly you learn by just diving in and figuring it out. You want to feel your workflow, not just use it. Understanding how all the pieces connect, tweaking things until they're just right — that's not extra work to you, that's the fun part.

Set-it-and-forget-it works great for other people. You'd rather set it, mess with it a little, improve it, and then maybe mess with it again.

With IFTTT, hands-on builders get something even better than a single automation, they get one trigger that sets off multiple actions at once. Get notified the moment an RSS feed matches a keyword you care about or relay Webhooks requests to another URL to connect tools that weren't built to talk to each other. One action, maximum output.

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No matter how you work best, IFTTT has an Applet for it. These are the kinds of small, smart automations that make everyday routines feel less like routines, and more like a system that was built just for you.

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