deadline ledger

Keep Every Scholarship Deadline and Fee on One Ledger — Free

Paste each award's deadline, required documents and any fee, and watch the running cost of applying mount against the money you are chasing.

The proof surface

Application fees are the invisible cost of scholarship hunting. Putting them on the same ledger as the award value is what stops five small applications quietly costing more than a bursary is worth.

Inputawards, deadlines, required documents and any application fee

Rare devicekeeps application cost and document burden on the same running ledger as the award value, instead of a bare deadline list

Output artifacta ruled register ordered by deadline with a running fee total and document ticks in the margin

Cost$0 · local-first · one free run · samples labelled

Sample, not your facts: Sample: Bellwether Trust $4,000 due 2 Oct 2026, transcript plus two references, fee $0, ledger started 20 Sep 2026 — four concrete points across four types.

Why the flat version breaks

Deadline-only lists

A list of dates says nothing about the two references and transcript that block the earliest award, which is where the deadline is actually lost.

Fee blindness

Four applications at $25–$40 each can exceed a small bursary's value; without a running total the moment to stop is invisible.

Chasing the biggest award

The largest award usually carries the longest document list; the ledger shows which value is actually reachable in the time you have.

How to work the deadline ledger

Paste the award list

Value, deadline, documents and any fee on one line each, exactly as the award page states them.

Set your fee budget

Your budget turns the running total into a decision: whether the next $40 application is still worth filing.

Read the register in order

Lines run in date order with the running total printed at the foot and document ticks in the margin.

Work the blockers first

References take the longest to obtain; request them before the essays, then re-run the ledger as documents arrive.

What the ledger replaces

Question	Before	On the ledger
What is due first	scan three websites	deadline order with days implied
What is blocking	re-read each form	documents ticked per award line
What it costs to apply	estimate	running fee total against your budget

The ledger never submits anything: it prints the order and the cost so the applications you do send are deliberate.

Run it on the samples, right here

FIRST-LOAD

Data note: Your award list stays on this device; no application data is transmitted and no scholarship service is contacted.

Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a bound register page

The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 6 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.

The ledger and the running fee total are free. The paid layer prints the application calendar and keeps the record across the term.

Open the scholarship deadline ledger companion

Boundary

This ledger organises award information you paste; it does not apply for funding, verify eligibility, or know an award's real terms. Award pages and financial-aid offices override every line here, and a missed internal target is not a missed award deadline. Confirm requirements and dates at source before you commit fees.

What this is built on

Awards, deadlines, documents and fees are the reader's own transcription from award pages; nothing is looked up or verified.
The running total is simple addition of the fee figures supplied on each line.
Document requirements are not checked against a form — the ledger tracks what the reader says each award asks for.

Before: the reader tracked deadlines in their head. After: they can see four awards due inside eleven days and $180 of application fees already committed.