jobtrack

A personal job-application tracker, packaged as a single command. It runs the API and the built web UI as one background process, with a Windows tray icon (open UI / toggle autostart / open settings / quit) — no terminal window, no separate dev server.

Record what you applied for, where and when; find it again by meaning rather than exact wording; and see before you enter a new application whether you've already been down that road with the same company. Single user, runs on your machine, data in a local SQLite file.

Install

On Windows, prefer the installer: JobTrack-Setup. It needs no admin rights and no Node.js, adds a native tray icon and a settings dialog, and starts silently at sign-in rather than opening a console window.

Everywhere else — and for development on Windows too:

npm install -g jobtrack
jobtrack

That route requires Node.js 24+ already installed on the machine, since it runs the app's TypeScript sources via tsx rather than shipping a compiled, dependency-free binary. Both routes use the same %APPDATA%\jobtrack data directory, so they share one database — install only one of them at a time, or the two will collide on port 3001.

What you get

• Open JobTrack — opens the UI in your default browser.
• Autostart with Windows — toggles a per-user Registry Run key, no admin rights needed.
• Open App Settings — opens .env in Notepad, seeded from a template on first use.
• Quit — stops the server and the tray icon together.

Windows only for the tray icon today — elsewhere, jobtrack still runs the combined server, just without a tray icon (Ctrl+C to stop).

Data (SQLite database, model cache, active-DB-target pointer) lives under a per-user JOBTRACK_HOME directory (%APPDATA%\jobtrack by default on Windows).

Source

https://github.com/CuplexUser/JobTrack — see the main repo README for the full feature set, MCP server, CSV/Excel import, and backup/restore.