One row per application, added the day you apply. Status colour-codes itself, Quiet counts the days since anything last happened, and Due is what your morning runs on.
How to use it
- Duplicate this page into your own workspace — top-right, Duplicate.
- Add a row the day you apply: company, position, the date, and which CV went out.
- Always fill Next step and Due. An application with no due date quietly disappears from your day.
- Let Quiet nag you. It counts days since their last reply, or since you applied. Past 14 is worth a follow-up; past 21 usually means it is over.
- Work top-down through what is due, each morning. That is the whole system.
The part a template cannot do
This database is a very good place to type. It cannot read your inbox, so every reply, status change and follow-up date is still typed by you — and it is only ever as current as your last honest edit.
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💡 Erioun does that part on its own: each application gets its own email address, replies file themselves against the right row, and statuses stay current. Start free at erioun.com
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Applications
What the columns work out for you
- Quiet — days since their last reply, or since you applied if they never replied. Goes blank once the application is closed, so it only ever counts live ones.
- Attention — the single column worth sorting by. It reads 🔴 Overdue, 🟠 Due today, 🔴 Silent 21+ days, 🟠 Going quiet, ⚪ No next step, or ✅ On track. Most urgent wins.
- Days out — how long this application has been alive.
- Stage — the ten statuses folded into five, for sorting and filtering. Note a Notion board cannot group by a formula, so the Pipeline board groups by Status itself; Notion prints the count on each column.