Track Every College Application in One Sheet
For senior fall. DuckyHelper reads application emails and the portals you have open, then builds and keeps a Google Sheet with every school's deadline, essays, recommendations and what's missing. You sign in to each portal yourself.
“Build a sheet of my college applications from my emails: deadlines, essays, recommendations and what's missing.”
- 01Write small tools for Gmail and Google Sheets, onceSmall JavaScript tools made from how each site already works. The next run calls them directly.
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- 02Read application emails from each school
- 03Check each portal you have open for missing items
- 04Build the sheet: deadline, essays, recs, status
- 05Highlight anything due within two weeks
You getOne place for the whole season. Every school, every deadline and what's missing, kept current on a schedule. It's built not to type your portal passwords.
A run, drawn from this page · early access on Mac
Nothing to send, so it runs straight through.
Nothing in this job sends a message or pays for anything, so it works through to the end and tells you when it's done. If a step ever would, it's built to stop and ask you first.
If it hits a sign-in, you sign in yourself. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers.
Before you ask it.
What do I say?
Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud, in your own words, like "Build a sheet of my college applications from my emails: deadlines, essays, recommendations and what's missing."
Why is the second time faster?
The first time, it writes small JavaScript tools for Gmail and Google Sheets and builds an API from each site's own buttons, forms and requests. After that it calls them directly, so the job runs in one go instead of click by click. It costs less and breaks less.
Will it send anything without me?
It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers: you sign in yourself, and it picks up from there.
Why not just do it by hand?
Every college has its own portal and emails, and "is my transcript in?" means logging in to each one.
Can I use this today?
Doing jobs in your apps is in early access on Mac. Talking to DuckyHelper, and having it see your screen and draw on it, works today on Mac, Windows and Linux.
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