A cover letter that looks like it came with the resume

A cover letter set in different fonts, with a differently formatted address block, quietly says the two documents were assembled from two different templates. Here the letter inherits your resume’s theme, typeface, accent colour and contact header automatically.

How it works

The cover letter is a second view of the same document, not a separate file you maintain. Switch to the cover letter tab and you get the recipient fields and a body editor; the letterhead, typeface, accent colour, border and spacing all come from whatever your resume is already set to.

Change the resume’s theme afterwards and the letter follows. Export the pair and they arrive as a matched set.

What to actually write

The structure that works is short and specific — three or four paragraphs, under a page, no restating of the resume:

• Opening. The role, and the one concrete reason you are writing — something true about this company, not "I was excited to see your posting".
• The proof paragraph. One story where you did the thing this job needs, with a number in it. Not a list of adjectives.
• The fit paragraph. Why this employer specifically. This is where generic letters die — if the paragraph would survive a find-and-replace of the company name, rewrite it.
• Close. One line. You would welcome the conversation. Stop there.

Address a person if you can find one. "Dear Hiring Manager" is fine and vastly better than "To Whom It May Concern", which reads as a form letter because it is one.

Export options

The letter exports to PDF, DOCX and Markdown exactly like the resume, with the same embedded-data trick — re-import the file later and your text comes back intact, ready to retarget at the next employer.

For applications that want one attachment, export both to PDF and merge, or paste the Markdown export straight into the application form’s text box.

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