# The pipeline

> How a Jobbaloo posting moves through stages on Tracked: saved, drafted, applied and interview, what Today counts, and which version an application keeps.

Source: https://jobbaloo.io/docs/the-pipeline/

The pipeline is the list of postings you are acting on. Each one has a stage. Saving a posting does not draft anything and does not send anything.

## Stages

**Tracked** lists every job with a stage and its next step in words. The stages named in the app are **saved**, **drafted**, **applied**, **interview** and so on. The **Activity** tab of a posting shows its history.

Saving a result, including `jobs save`, sets the stage to **saved**. Nothing is drafted or sent. A stored posting can still carry materials beside that stage: the CV version, the cover letter, and every e-mail draft with what will be attached and its approval request.

**Today**, the first page after sign-in, shows your stage counts, what is ready (profile, sender, mail key), drafts waiting for you and what goes out today. See [Getting started](/docs/getting-started/).

## What follows a new version

An application has one cover letter: the posting's tailored version. An unsent application follows each new version you save. A sent one keeps the version it went out with. Editing a version is the same tailored CV for the plan count. Read [Tailoring](/docs/tailoring/) and [Plans and limits](/docs/plans-and-limits/).

## What else can save a posting

The morning digest can save strong matches to the pipeline when you turn that on. It still only reads boards and stores postings. It never drafts or sends. See [The morning digest](/docs/morning-digest/).

Replies you forward to your Jobbaloo address are matched to their thread and application, so the pipeline shows where that posting stands. See [Applying and the outbox](/docs/applying/).

An AI can read the pipeline with `jobs saved` and one posting, including its stage, with `jobs get`. It cannot approve or send.