When I was looking for a job several years ago, I started developing the bad habit of just staring at my Gmail inbox, waiting for replies to emails, and eventually offer letters and the like. I used Zapier to set up a rule so that when an email arrived from a specific email domain, it would send me a text.

Seems silly, but it put my mind at ease. I knew that I'd get notified when an important email arrived, and it freed up my mind to focus on other things.