Karbon My Week
Weekly planning for email, work and priorities
- Role
- Lead Product Designer
- Timeline
- 2021–2022
- What it is
- Personal planning and prioritisation layer inside Karbon
Overview
My Week brought email, work and priorities into a personal weekly plan, giving users one place to see what needed attention and when.
The product job was not to create another backlog. It was to help people turn a mixed stream of responsibilities into a manageable action plan.
The design challenge was making prioritisation feel active and lightweight, so people could plan the week without losing sight of live work and incoming communication.
A plan for the week
Karbon described My Week as a coordinated but flexible plan for how users should spend their time.
The surface needed to make responsibilities visible without becoming a second inbox. It had to support planning, not just collection.
Designed around mixed inputs
Weekly planning in an accounting practice is not just a task list. Work comes from assigned jobs, client email, internal notes, urgent changes and team coordination.
My Week had to help users identify responsibilities, prioritise time, action emails and notes, and share progress without making the workflow heavier.
Momentum over management
The important product question was whether the page helped people decide what to do next.
That meant surfacing urgency, progress and ownership clearly, while keeping the experience flexible enough for different working styles.
Calendar made the plan real
My Week became more useful when it sat alongside a user’s real Google or Outlook calendar.
Connecting priorities to scheduled time helped teams see the shape of the week, protect deadlines and adjust work before it became a problem.
What shipped
- Introduced My Week as a personal plan for email, work and priorities
- Helped users identify responsibilities and prioritise time
- Connected weekly planning with Google or Outlook Calendar to support scheduling and deadlines
- Supported progress sharing and team coordination
- Rolled out to Karbon accounts from October 18, 2021
What people said
“My Week has been one of our favorite Karbon feature releases to-date. My Week unifies our systems, and serves as a second brain. It has taken work scheduling to the next level.”
Reino Barkema, Fynbos Accounting
“My Week gives me clear objectives for the day and week, and the ability to plan ahead and shift work forward or back as needed. It also enables us to work better as a team by helping each other with assigned work or task items.”
Lauren Thiel, The Real Thiel
“The value of My Week isn’t in what it saves me in working time, the benefit is how much it saves me in worrying time.”
Sean Birdsell, Birdsell Consulting
“Our staff use My Week and Calendar to plan their working schedule each week. We find these functions give a clear view of the week and help us to meet deadlines. It is also very satisfying to tick the tasks off when completed.”
Melissa Sterry, Director, Indigo Bookkeeping