Pushbullet is a simple app that's far more useful than it appears.
This means you can actually use your notification bar as a handy reminder tool. You can, of course, clear any of Pushbullet's items from your notification bar as needed, and just as easily, you can add them to the bar again directly from the Pushbullet app.
Having pushed items fed into my notification bar keeps them at the front of my mind. This is perhaps Pushbullet's most important capability. And every pushed item also successfully made its way into my Android's notification bar. In my tests, transmissions from desktop to mobile device (and mobile to desktop) occurred immediately, so long as the device had an active data connection. When it comes to performance, Pushbullet is reliable and fast. One way I use Pushbullet and IFTTT is to send a link to my phone when my favorite blog publishes a new article, but there are many more ways to use it, including sending a weather report to your phone, being notified when a sports team scores, or getting a link when there's a new Instagram photo from your favorite user. Pushbullet was added to IFTTT in March 2014 and can turn hundreds of triggers into items that can be pushed to your devices. A great example is if I share a new photo on Facebook, then save it to my Dropbox account. You set triggers, or actions that spark another action, and then an outcome. If you're not familiar, If This Then That, or IFTTT, is a service that connects almost any two apps or services that never communicated in the past, such as Facebook and Dropbox. Pushbullet is even more useful when you connect it to IFTTT.
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That's all there is to it, and you'll begin to get small pop-up messages when you get a new notification on your Android device.
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Then you'll need to install the Pushbullet Chrome extension or Firefox add-on and sign in to your account when prompted.
To set up desktop notifications, head to the settings menu in the Android app and tap the Notification Mirroring option to let the app access your notifications. You can control which apps trigger desktop notifications in the Pushbullet app, and dismiss the notification on your phone if you're done with it, which to me, is a great feature. First, the app doesn't show you a condensed list of friends who have a Pushbullet account, which would be helpful so that I can see who's already using the service. If they do not already have Pushbullet, they'll get an email inviting them to join. Just pick something you want to send, and in the field where you choose where to push your item, select "Add a friend." The app pulls in all of your contacts that are synced with your phone. You can add friends from either the Web site or app, but it's easier to do in the app. You can even push items to the Android devices of your friends (so long as the you have the email address they signed up with) and vice versa. For now, file size is limited to 25MB, a step up from the earlier 10MB limit. That's because neither of those options automatically saves the file. This makes Pushbullet a more convenient option for transferring files than sending an email attachment or using Dropbox. It's important to note that files are, once pushed from your desktop, automatically downloaded onto your mobile device. For instance, an image opens in the Gallery app, while PDFs might open in Adobe Reader, if you have it installed. Finally, files that are pushed to your phone open up in the appropriate app for that particular file type. If you tap a note or list notification, those items will open in the app, while pushed links open in your phone's default browser and addresses open in a map app. When Pushbullet pushes an item to a mobile device, it generates a notification in the notification bar. For files and photos, the app will ask you to grab a file from an app, such as the photo gallery or your file manager, you want to grab the attachment. Just like on the Web site, you can type in (or copy and paste) notes, lists, and links. Just tap the tiny bullet icon at the top-right of the app and select what kind of item you want to push and where. You can also use the Android app to push files, notes, and other items to other Android devices or your computer. You can send links, notes, images, and other files from your phone to your computer Screenshot by Sarah Mitroff/CNET
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