A job application tracker that talks first.

You give an application a next step — “HR screening”, “tech demo”, a take-home deadline — with a date and time, and the widget hands that deadline to the app’s native core, which schedules a real operating-system notification (macOS Notification Center, Windows toast). By default it fires 60 minutes before, and that lead time is configurable. The part that matters: the piece that keeps those alarms in sync with your board is loaded eagerly by the app, not when you open the widget — so the alarm still fires if you never opened the popover in that session, and after a restart of the app. If the scheduled lead time has already passed but the event has not, it fires at the event itself rather than staying silent.

No, and that is a decision rather than a missing feature. Instead, “Paste posting” takes the text you copied from wherever you found it and fills in what it can recognize locally: labelled fields (Company:, Role:, Salary:, Location:), the “Backend Engineer at Acme” pattern portals use in their titles, the first URL, the work mode (remote, hybrid, on-site) and a salary range. Two rules keep it honest — anything you typed by hand wins, so the parse fills gaps instead of overwriting you, and whatever it cannot recognize stays empty instead of being invented. Actually scraping those sites would mean 403s and IP blocks: a feature that breaks intermittently, which is the worst way for a feature to break. And nothing leaves your machine either way.

Neither. The widget does not call any model and never asks for an API key or a subscription. What it does is build the prompt: it assembles the posting, your base CV and the role context into one Markdown prompt in four modes — rewrite my bullets for this posting, draft a cover letter, find the terms the posting uses that my CV is missing, or run a mock interview — and you copy it into whatever LLM you already pay for. If you have the Toolbox MCP server on, your agent can ask for that exact same prompt without any copying, because the button and the agent tool share one function. The match score next to it is also local: it takes the 25 most frequent meaningful terms of the posting and tells you how many appear in your CV. It is a term overlap you can read and argue with, not any vendor’s real ATS score.

Two ways. First, the reminders are native OS alarms that the system fires on its own schedule, so nothing depends on you having a tab, an app window or a browser extension open. Those tools do remind you — Notion and the web trackers send an e-mail or a push from their own app, which lands in the inbox you are ignoring or on the phone in your pocket. This one arrives on the machine you are working on, from a process that is already running. Second, this is free, needs no account, and everything lives in files on your machine: no server holds your job hunt, which for a job hunt tends to matter more than usual. What those tools have and this does not: a browser extension that captures a posting in one click, job-board integrations, e-mail parsing, a mobile app, and syncing across devices.

No — and it is worth being precise about that. On macOS, Toolbox can back up and restore your setup through iCloud, and the widget’s three files ride along in that backup, but that is backup and restore, not live two-way sync: two machines editing in parallel is not something it handles. For moving to another machine (or out of the widget entirely) there is an explicit export: JSON is the full round-trip copy — applications with their stage history, next steps and CV variants — and importing it back can merge into what you already have, where anything already present is skipped rather than overwritten. There is also a one-way CSV export for spreadsheets, which deliberately cannot be imported back because it would lose the posting text and the history.

It runs on both desktops — the macOS menu bar and the Windows system tray — and there is no mobile version. It is desktop-only by design: it lives next to the browser and the CV file you are actually editing, and it depends on scheduling native notifications and reading and writing local files.

Yes. Webstarted Toolbox is free and needs no account, and Job Tracker is a free widget in its catalog: open the catalog tab (🧰), press “+”, and it lands in your Productivity tab — nothing to download separately and no app update needed. The empty state has a “See an example” button that loads one sample application so you can look around before typing anything real.