Every application, interview stage and follow-up as a task with a real due date — next to the daily target you set yourself and the interview prep you keep moving to tomorrow.
Then the columns multiplied, the follow-up dates stopped being visible, and two of the rows turned out to be roles you had already been rejected from. A search that runs for four months needs something that reminds you, not something you have to remember to open.
One senior role that runs six weeks of interviews deserves a project with milestones: application in, recruiter screen, take-home, panel, decision. A broad search works better as one project per role type — backend roles, product marketing — with every application sitting under it. The company is a project name or a tag, not a contact record.
Title it with the company and the role, set the due date to the day you said you would follow up, give it a priority. Today splits overdue out at the top, so the chase you promised on the 3rd is the first thing you see on the 4th rather than the thing you remember in the shower. Tag by source or seniority and filter the all-tasks view when you want the whole pipeline at once.
Three applications a day, or an hour of outreach on weekday mornings. The habit keeps its own streak and a year-long graph, so a week with no replies still shows as a week of work rather than nothing. When the offer finally lands, that graph is also the honest answer to how long it took.
Make the things you get tested on into skills — system design, SQL, behavioural stories, the framework named in the job description — and log each practice session with its minutes. Two weeks in you can usually see four hours of algorithms and twenty minutes of talking about yourself out loud, which is the wrong way round for the round you are about to sit.
A project for each company you are seriously chasing, or one per role type for the wide search. Add today’s applications as tasks with the date you will chase each one. Make the daily target a habit.
Open Today. Overdue follow-ups sit at the top, then what is due, then the target. Log a prep session when you do one. Nothing has to be maintained separately from the work.
After a month the numbers exist: applications sent, stages reached, hours of prep by topic, days you hit the target. You adjust from that instead of from the feeling that it is going badly.
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