Changed your whole view on consistency" is putting it lightly. I bet your inbox looks like a war zone of automated replies and radio silence. That's 100 "we'll keep your info on file" emails. My guy, you could have built a whole robot to do this by now and saved your thumbs the trouble.
Built a robot" is exactly what I did. Set up a simple spreadsheet to track applications, used a free mail merge tool for follow ups, and created email filters to auto sort those "on file" replies into a folder I check once a week. It cuts the busywork down to maybe 10 minutes a day.