Why Ledger
I kept losing track, so I built the tracker.
Somewhere around application thirty, the spreadsheet stopped working. Half the rows were out of date, I couldn't remember which recruiter I'd already followed up with, and a deadline slipped past me because it was buried in an email I'd archived.
Ledger is the tool I actually wanted: a board where a company's status is always current, deadlines can't hide, and checking "how's the search going" takes one glance instead of a scroll through old emails.