A tour of the app

Everything in Jobably can be driven from the web app at app.jobably.com — no command line required. This page walks the portal screen by screen; the next page explains every button in detail.

Dashboard

Your search at a glance:

• New matches since your last visit, with score chips.
• Score distribution — a histogram of how postings score against your bar.
• Pipeline — counts per stage, mirroring the Board.
• Where they go — the funnel: postings seen → scored → matched at your floor → resume drafted → applied → screen or beyond → closed, each step as a share of the one above (Closed against Applied, since an application can close from any stage).
• Hit rate by search — the share of each search’s postings that reached your floor: the free instrument for “is it the market, or my query”. A search shows once it has eight scored postings.
• What it has cost this cycle — credits spent, per match found and per application sent, from the same reading your plan’s meters use.
• What came back — still open, rejected, withdrawn, accepted, the average days to hear back, and the share answered at all.
• Waiting on a reply — applications past five days with nothing back.
• Scan health — every search with its last runs per source, a running total of matches found, and plain-language results: “latest scan: nothing new” after a repeat run is healthy — everything returned was already known and de-duplicated.
• Usage this cycle — meters against your monthly plan quotas.

Brand-new accounts also get a first-scan progress card here that watches the initial scan and flips to “fresh matches are below” on its own.

When setup is incomplete (no resume yet, no search yet), a Step 1 — finish setting up checklist appears with direct links, plus a way to restart the guided onboarding at any time.

Matches

The page opens with What this scan is looking for — the search stated before the results it produced: the roles and seniority being fetched, where, the employer size floor, and the score a match must clear to be shown (your own Matches floor from Settings when you have set one, otherwise each search’s threshold). Expand it to see every search with its title phrases grouped in plain words — any of, and all of, but never — the description filter, how many postings each search has found and when it last ran, plus the employers and titles that are never shown. It is read from your saved searches and profile, so it always describes what actually runs; a search that is paused says so rather than disappearing.

Every posting your scans found or you saved with the browser extension. Click a job title to expand details: stated pay, key skills, what the role involves, what they’re looking for, company industry and size, a link to the original posting, and — once you’ve tailored — your application package downloads. Click a score — here, on the Board, in a card’s drawer, or on the Dashboard — to open the why-this-score panel: the written rationale, what the scorer found on seniority, location and pay, and links to the settings that produced it (interview answers, targeting, exclusions, a search’s threshold, your Matches floor), with a re-score button for after you change one.

Prefer to review matches on your phone? Jobably Swipe deals the same postings as cards — right to keep, left to pass — and installs from the browser.

Stated pay is captured wherever the posting declares it — salary ranges on scanned roles AND hourly or project rates on contract gigs you save with the extension. Jobably never estimates pay: if a posting doesn’t state it, the field stays empty.

When a new match scores at or above your email alert level (Settings → Notifications; default 8), Jobably emails you — as each scoring run lands, or once a day in one email if you prefer, or not at all. Never one email per job, and only the first time a posting is scored. This is a different number from a search’s score threshold, which decides what appears on Matches at all.

Filters cover status, minimum score, source, engagement type (salaried vs contract work), which of your searches found the match, and how recently it was found (today, or within the last 3 / 7 / 14 / 30 days).

Every match also has a Re-score button: watch it run live, and the fresh score lands on the card the moment it finishes. Finished statuses — including any errors — can be dismissed with the × so they don’t linger.

Pursuing

Everything between “I want this” and “I sent it”, in one place. Each row shows its stage — Queued → Drafted → Reviewed → Final → Applied — worked out from what actually exists (a studio session, a built document), and one button that changes with the stage: Tailor resume opens the studio, Review & finalize and Decide & build take you back to it, Mark applied stamps the date and moves the card to the Board. Drop returns the posting to Matches. Expand a row for the decision beside the evidence: Why (the score’s rationale and what the posting is buying), the full job description, and the documents.

Board

A kanban view of your pipeline: Matched → Pursuing → Tailored → Applied → Screen → Interview → Offer, with a Closed list underneath. Drag cards between columns or use the keyboard-friendly “Move to…” select on each card — only legal next stages are offered. From Applied on, each card also has an ended: row (rejected / withdrawn / accepted); an ended application drops into Closed with its outcome and the stage it reached. The Pursuing and Tailored columns are mirrors of the Pursuing screen, where that work happens. Cards sitting in Applied for five days with nothing back show how long they have waited. Clicking a card opens a drawer with the full description, score rationale, downloads, your notes, and the complete status history.

Resumes

Every document, grouped by application: what Jobably wrote — the tailored resume, cover letter and prep packet, tagged ours — beside the final you actually sent, tagged yours (add it with Upload on the group). Each group says where the application stands. Diff vs master shows what the draft changed; Diff vs your final shows what you changed by hand. Revise (keeps your decisions) reopens the studio session; Re-draft from scratch discards those decisions and queues a fresh draft. Only a final you actually sent — the application is applied or beyond — can be marked an exemplar, which later drafts learn from. Tailor for a job opens the studio. Your master resume lives under Profile → Master Resume (upload new versions any time — old ones are kept and diffable; marking a version as an exemplar teaches future tailoring to imitate its style). The provenance guarantee applies everywhere: tailored documents only contain figures that exist verbatim in your master resume or accomplishment bank.

Every tailored draft carries your name, email and phone exactly as they appear in your master resume, along with every employer, title and date. Those are facts about you, so nothing is asked to reproduce them.

Downloading a tailored document asks you to confirm you will read it first. That is not a formality. The guards stop a draft inventing a figure; they cannot stop it being aimed at the wrong thing, or carrying a licence from another industry onto this application. See what a tailored resume contains.

Gaps

Beside every finished draft is the list of things the posting asked for that your record does not evidence. The draft never claims them. Each one is either something to add to your accomplishment bank, something for a cover letter, or a reason this role is not for you — and the third case is worth as much as the other two.

Your accomplishment bank

Tailoring can only use what it has been given, and a resume is one compressed snapshot of a career. The bank holds the rest, and you can import your LinkedIn data export into it from the Profile page — positions, dates and the description you wrote for each role. Nothing is replaced; entries are added and duplicates skipped.

Searches

Each search is a standing instruction: a boolean query, which sources to scan, a score threshold, and a cadence. The live preview shows exactly how your query compiles — including warnings about word-order traps. Searches pause rather than delete, so scan history is never lost.

Profile

Profile is the first item in the left navigation — a section that folds open to its pages: Master Resume (versions, diffs, exemplars), Targeting (the questionnaire — the single source of truth for scoring: engagement types, title keywords for and against, industries for and against), Interview (your answers, editable any time — they feed the rubric verbatim), Exclusions, Accomplishments (the bank), and Your Bio — a few sentences in your own voice that your cover letters speak in.

Billing, Settings

These live in the avatar menu (top right):

• Billing — plan status, trial countdown, usage, and the Stripe portal.
• Settings — linked sign-ins, your own model keys (write-only) and the tailoring-model picker, search and email preferences (your own Matches score floor, the email alert level, how often match emails and the pipeline summary arrive — daily, weekly, or off), personal access tokens for the extension and AI agents — with a connect card that hands you the full ready-to-paste command for Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot — plus theme, data export, and account deletion.

Getting help

The ? button in the header opens context-sensitive help for whichever screen you’re on, including what each button does. The speech-bubble button (bottom right) sends us a bug report, idea, issue, or request from anywhere in the app.