Built a dumb little tracker for applications after losing count around week 6 and it fixed more than the spreadsheet part

Wasn't just that I forgot which companies I'd applied to. It was that I had no idea if I was actually doing more this week than last week, or just felt busier. One column, one row per application, a date and a status. Took ten minutes to set up and somehow made the whole search less anxiety-inducing just by making it visible.