The job application tracker

Every application, follow-up and interview in one place.

Almost everyone starts a job search with a spreadsheet and abandons it around application twenty. That's a real problem, because the moment you stop tracking is the moment your search stops improving — you lose the ability to tell why things aren't working, and every rejection becomes a mood rather than a data point.

Tracker replaces the spreadsheet with something built for the job: log each application with the company, role, date, the version of your resume you sent, and the contact if you have one. Move it through the pipeline as things progress — applied, screening, interview, offer, closed — and the board shows you the whole search at a glance rather than as a wall of rows you have to re-read.

The reason this matters more than it sounds is diagnosis. A job search is a funnel, and it breaks at exactly one place at a time. If you're sending applications and hearing nothing at all, the problem is upstream — targeting or your resume. If you're getting screens that don't convert to interviews, it's how you come across in that first conversation. If you're reaching interviews but not finals, it's interview skills. If you're reaching finals but not offers, it's fit or competition, and that's the stage where asking for feedback pays most. Those four diagnoses lead to completely different fixes, and without tracking you genuinely cannot tell them apart — which is why so many searches stall for months while the person works hard on the wrong thing.

Follow-ups are the other thing the spreadsheet always loses. One well-timed follow-up seven to ten days after applying is professional and occasionally decisive; three is a reason to stop considering you. Tracker keeps the dates so you send the first and not the third, and so a recruiter calling three weeks later doesn't catch you unable to remember which version of your story they read.

It also connects to the rest of your search rather than sitting in isolation. Applications captured by the browser extension can import straight in, so anything you autofill and submit is logged without retyping. Your profile, resume versions and answer bank are the same ones the other tools use, which means the record of what you sent is the actual thing you sent.

Everything is local-first: your pipeline lives in your browser, not in an account on someone's server, and there's no signup to start. If you want the wider system around it, the job search checklist covers the weekly rhythm this fits into, and this diagnostic explains how to read your funnel once you have a few weeks of data in it.

• ✓Pipeline board: applied → screening → interview → offer
• ✓Follow-up dates so you send one, not three
• ✓Import applications captured by the extension
• ✓Local-first, free, no signup

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