Recommendations for free job-search tools (update)

I am tracking my applications in a notebook and want something better. Any experience at all would help. I do not want to pay for premium features. What do you use?

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 2 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.

A simple spreadsheet with company, date, contact and next step was all I needed.