Keeping a text log of my job applications

Looking for a job is probably the single worst and most boring thing to do at least as a junior software engineer. I recently graduated so this was my fate.

I started applying left and right to different kinds of jobs in lots of different places. Some jobs I applied for on LinkedIn, others in more obscure job-board platforms.

I wanted to have some sort of log that was independent of any of these websites to keep track of those jobs and query them in a simpler fashion.

I stopped applying for jobs and took to yak shaving. I came out with a pretty decent text-based format where every job takes up one line with all of its relevant information.

I added an Emacs completing-read-based interface for it that helps to manage the database without editing the file directly. The parser is based on simple regular expressions and there's even a major mode that makes the database look pretty.

If that sounds appealing to you, go on and have a look at the project's source repository.