Internship Tracker: Spreadsheet vs Notion vs LucidTrack

An internship tracker spreadsheet works until about your tenth application; after that, a purpose-built tracker like LucidTrack stops deadlines and details slipping. Spreadsheets and Notion templates are free and flexible, but every row is typed by hand, nothing tells you when a role opens, and nothing reminds you what's due. LucidTrack fills itself from the roles you apply to, keeps each application's rounds and deadlines, and shows how your season is going. It's free.

We make LucidTrack. The spreadsheet and Notion details below come from two popular templates: Spreadsheet Daddy's free job application tracker, and Notion Everything's Notion job application tracker. For dedicated trackers like Trackr and Bright Network, see the best internship trackers in the UK.

What each one covers in an application

Find live rolesHear when one opensTrack what you applied toRounds and deadlinesSeason statistics

• LucidTrack
• Notion template
• Spreadsheet

Handles itPartlyLeft to you

Where an internship tracker spreadsheet breaks down

A typical internship tracker spreadsheet has a row per application and columns for the company, role, link, date applied, status, interview dates, outcome and notes. Spreadsheet Daddy's free template, for Excel and Google Sheets, has exactly that, with statuses such as applied, interview scheduled and rejected. By the middle of application season, four things go wrong:

• Every row is typed by hand. Copying the company, role, deadline and link for thirty applications takes hours you'd rather spend on the applications.
• One status per row. Real applications have rounds: an online test, then a video interview, then an assessment centre, each with its own deadline. A single status column can't show where you are in each.
• Nothing reminds you. A deadline in a cell doesn't warn you that it's in three days.
• It doesn't find roles. You still need somewhere else to find out what's open.

Notion templates have the same problem

Notion templates look nicer than a spreadsheet. Notion Everything's job application tracker, for example, has a list, a kanban board by status, and tables for companies and contacts. But it's still manual entry, with no alerts, no reminders and no job listings, and it's one more app to keep open during application season.

Why students move to LucidTrack

LucidTrack is built around how UK early careers recruitment actually runs: an initial application, then online tests, video interviews and assessment centres, each with its own deadline.

• Roles go in from the board. Apply from a tracker like finance internships or technology internships and the role lands in your tracker with its deadline and job description. The Chrome extension does the same for any careers page.
• Rounds, not just a status. Each application keeps its own rounds, each with a status and a date, and your deadlines are sorted by what's due next.
• It remembers for you. Which CV you sent, what the job description said, and when you last heard back. An application with no update for four weeks is marked ghosted.
• It shows how your season is going. Offers, rejections, applications in progress and your pass rate with each assessment provider, counted for you.

The tracker is free with no limit on applications. Pro adds email job alerts, calendar sync for deadlines and interviews, AI CV and writing tools, and the grades tracker.

Spreadsheet vs Notion vs LucidTrack at a glance

Feature	LucidTrack	Notion template	Spreadsheet
Cost	Free (Pro optional)	Notion Everything's template is $6.99	Free templates available
Adding an application	From the job board, the Chrome extension or by hand	By hand	By hand
Several rounds per application	Yes	Set up by hand	Extra columns, by hand
Deadlines sorted by what's due next	Yes	No	No
Calendar sync	Apple, Google, Outlook (Pro)	No	No
Finds open roles	Yes	No	No
Alerts when roles open	Email, within minutes (Pro)	No	No
Season statistics	Yes	No	With your own formulas

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free internship tracker template?

LucidTrack is a free internship tracker that does everything a template does and more: it adds roles from the job board, keeps every round and deadline, and counts how your season is going, with no limit on applications.

What should an internship tracker include?

For each application: the company and role, the date you applied, the deadline, the CV you sent, the job description, every round (online test, video interview, assessment centre) with its date and status, and the outcome. LucidTrack keeps all of these for you.

Can I move from a spreadsheet to LucidTrack mid-season?

Yes. Add the applications you've already made by hand, then add new ones from the job board or the Chrome extension as you apply.

Find the roles in this guide

Every live role, with its deadline, and every closed one with the date it opened.

Trackers

• Finance internships
• Technology internships