Organizing Emails?
Im starting in-office this week and someone recommended during training to organize emails by folders, and keep organized folders on your desktop
Dumbest question but can someone explain how they organize this effectively? Like how broad are we talking for categories/titles if anyone has a general outline?
and should the emails be set up to filter automatically or manually? not sure because all the analysts make it sound like they get 1000 emails a minute and couldnt even try to read them all
I mirror our teams drive, so organized first by industry, then specific deals, including folders for admin, analysis (subfolders for model, comps, etc), diligence, buyer / lender tracking, presentations (subfolders for teaser, cip, lp, etc). Then separate non-deal folders for expenses, market updates, social, recruiting, compliance, performance reviews, training, etc
Recruiting? You have that on your work email?
Ya, most headhunters reach out to your work email in my experience, and also for networking emails from prospective candidates
I organise by client, and then create a sub-folder whenever we have a live project for that client. No system is going to be perfect, but it works fairly well. I try not to overdo it with folder (i.e. sub-folders for all sorts within each client folder, as inevitably topics overlap and you eventually spend so much time organising you'll go nuts).
You don't get THAT many emails - I mean, it's a lot and you should try to organise, but I always find that there's time to do it manually. Though only time I set to auto are things like VDR alerts which can quickly become spam, or maybe when I've been added to a DL for a project I'm only vaguely involved with.
And then sub-folders for other topics like admin, miscellaneous, etc.
I don’t organize, just let em be, my brotha
Same lol I just flag stuff that is a to-do and maybe jot it down in OneNote
Same as the people above and would add that im not a fan of automatic sorting into folders (except for VDR, newsletters,…). The reason being it forces me to actually go through every email to clean my inbox and that way I’m not missing anything. When i mean “go through” it’s often reading subject and first line.
Good luck!
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