Blotter

A networking tracker that keeps itself current.

Blotter is an intelligent Google Sheet that becomes your networking tracker. You add the people you are reaching out to, and it reads your Gmail and Calendar for those names to keep every status current.

Made by someone who went through IB recruitment

How it works

You add the names. Blotter watches for them and fills in the rest.

The Blotter sheet comes with its program already built in. You copy it into your own Drive and that copy becomes your tracker. Paste in the people you are networking with, or add them as your outreach grows. The program runs on your own Google account, scanning for updates every 15 minutes. It finds the threads and calendar events those people are on, works out where each relationship stands, and writes it into the right-hand columns. It never changes anything you typed.

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Title
Firm
Email
Status
Days
Last contact
Attempts
Next call
Last call
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Jamie Diamond
Associate
JPMorgan
jamie.diamond@jpmorgan.com
Replied
0
1/16/26
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Jerome Bowel
Analyst
Carlyle
jerome.bowel@carlyle.com
Not emailed
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Larry Sync
Associate
BlackRock
larry.sync@blackrock.com
Sent
0
1/16/26
2
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Nathan Cole
Analyst
Lazard
nathan.cole@lazard.com
Bounced
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1/14/26
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Ken Molise
Vice President
Moelis
ken.molise@moelis.com
Call done
1
1/13/26
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1/15/26
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David Salmon
Analyst
Goldman Sachs
david.salmon@gs.com
Call scheduled
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1/15/26
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1/17 @ 2:00 PM
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Priya Raman
Analyst
Evercore
priya.raman@evercore.com
Closed
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1/9/26
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1/8/26
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How Blotter uses your data

Blotter reads the outside of your emails, not the inside: who wrote, who it went to, when, and the subject line. The text of an email is not sent to Blotter’s server. It runs inside your own Google account, and it only looks at conversations with the people in your Contacts tab.

What each connection can and cannot do.

Can do

  • Read the outside of your emails: who wrote, who it went to, when, and the subject line.
  • Look at conversations with the people in your Contacts tab.

Cannot do

  • Read the text of an email.
  • Send an email.
  • Reply to anything.
  • Change or delete anything in your mailbox.
  • Touch a conversation that does not involve one of your contacts.

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Frequently asked questions