Job Application Tracker

🧳 JOB APPLICATION TRACKER — Your Free Job Search Companion Tired of losing track of where you applied? Forgetting which resume you sent? Missing follow-up deadlines? Job Application Tracker saves every job application to YOUR Google Sheet with a single click. No sign-ups, no subscriptions, no hidden fees — completely free and open-source. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES 🎯 ONE-CLICK TRACKING • Open any job posting → click the extension → hit Save • Auto-detects job title and company name from the page • Works on all major job boards and hiring platforms out of the box • Falls back gracefully on any other website using the page title 📊 APPLICATION DASHBOARD • See your total applications, weekly count, and follow-up needs at a glance • Visual likelihood breakdown (High / Medium / Low) • Top job sources displayed as chips • Recent applications with time-ago display 🎯 DAILY GOAL TRACKER • Set your daily application goal (e.g., 5 apps/day) • Beautiful animated progress ring shows your progress • Motivational messages keep you going: "3 more to hit your goal 💪" ⚠️ DUPLICATE DETECTION • Already tracked this job? We'll warn you before you save again • No more double applications or wasted time 🔔 FOLLOW-UP REMINDERS • Red badge appears on the extension icon when applications are 7+ days old • Never forget to follow up — the #1 mistake job seekers make 🧠 SMART RESUME MEMORY • Type a custom resume name once → it's saved in the dropdown forever • No more retyping "Data Analyst Resume v3" every single time 🧙 GUIDED SETUP (Under 3 Minutes!) • Beautiful 5-step wizard opens automatically on first install • Walks you through creating the Google Sheet, setting up the script, and connecting everything • Even if you've never used Google Apps Script, you'll be set up in minutes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS • 100% Private — Your data goes to YOUR Google Sheet, not our servers • No accounts required — No sign-up, no email, no login • No tracking — Zero analytics, zero telemetry, zero ads • Open source — Read every line of code on GitHub • Minimal permissions — Only requests what's absolutely necessary ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the extension 2. Complete the 3-minute setup wizard 3. Go to any job posting page 4. Click the extension icon 5. Review auto-detected info, select resume, set likelihood 6. Click "Save to Sheet" ✅ 7. Open your Google Sheet — your application is there! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 WHAT GETS TRACKED Each application saves these columns to your Google Sheet: • Timestamp • Application Date • Job Title • Company Name • URL • Resume Used • Likelihood (High/Medium/Low) • Source (domain name) • Notes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 WORKS EVERYWHERE Job Application Tracker works on any job posting page across the web. It includes smart auto-detection built for the most popular hiring platforms, and gracefully falls back to reading the page title and metadata for any other site — no configuration needed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 WHO IS THIS FOR? • Job seekers applying to multiple positions • Career changers tracking applications across industries • Students applying for internships and entry-level roles • Anyone who wants to stay organized during their job search ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ WHY JOB APPLICATION TRACKER? Unlike paid tools with subscription walls: • ✅ Completely FREE — no premium tier, no trial limits • ✅ Your data stays in YOUR Google Sheet — not locked in someone else's platform • ✅ Works offline (local dashboard) — no internet needed for stats • ✅ Open source — transparent and trustworthy • ✅ Lightweight — under 50KB, no bloat ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Created by Nisarg Shah Open source on GitHub — contributions welcome!