Applicants and invitations

The queue

One block per applicant, with the person and their application both on screen, not folded behind a disclosure. The fold made the queue scannable and made it a queue you had to open one row at a time.

Each block carries their own title for the application, their intro, their answers to your screening questions, and the actions.

"New" means submitted and less than a week old. A fortnight-old application is not new, whatever you have or have not done about it.

Viewed

An application is marked viewed when you have actually had it on screen long enough to read it, rather than when you press a button saying you did.

Freelancers are not shown this. The application tracker on their side lists the job, who posted it, when they applied and a way back into the conversation, and nothing about how much attention you have paid. "Viewed a week ago and nothing since" is worse than silence.

What you can do

• Save them to a folder, exactly like saving from the directory.
• Message them.
• Offer work: the accepting action, and the start of an engagement. See