Jobtrail EP 1: The art of yak shaving

So, I'm currently looking for a job; shocking, right? And when looking for a job you usually apply on multiple platforms, which makes keeping track of what you've applied to kind of hard, you know?

Ok, I'll stop with the rhetorical questions, I swear.

What I mean to say is that in an effort to keep track of all the applications I have been sending I decided to create a web app for it (because why the hell not?)

The goal of jobtrail is to have a central place to keep all your applications, be able to add notes to those applications and - eventually - to be able to set reminders for "checkpoints".

What I'm calling checkpoints are point in time where you should go over your applications and check whether you have progressed in the process, got rejected, or should probably email the recruiter to ask for news.

Think of this publication kind of like a devlog; I'll update here as soon as I make significant progress and/or release this publicly. In the meantime, here's a small preview of what part of the main screen looks like