I built ContactTool after realizing I was accidentally applying to the same companies multiple times across LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor.

While job hunting, I’d see a posting and think, “This looks familiar…” — then realize I had already applied two weeks earlier on a different site.

There was no cross-site memory.

So I built a small Chrome extension, a contextual CRM, that lets you:

• Select any company name (or unique string) on any HTML webpage • Date-stamp it instantly • Optionally attach a note • See a popup next time you highlight that same string

It works anywhere on the web (except PDFs). It doesn’t depend on a specific job board.

The goal is simple: answer the question “When did I last contact or apply to this company?”

Design decisions:

No accounts

No backend

No scraping

Local storage only

Manual selection = intentional tracking

I’m curious how others are managing cross-site job tracking. I'm happy not to be making a trip to my Mail for yet another search.

Would love feedback on UX, edge cases, or alternative approaches.