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Overview of My Week

Use My Week to view & manage your tasks, plan your week, prioritize work, and see colleagues' workloads.

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Written by Erin Jamison
Updated over a week ago

My Week in Karbon provides a comprehensive and personalized view of all work items, tasks, emails, and notes assigned to you. It serves as your central hub for understanding your current and upcoming responsibilities, enabling you to effectively prioritize your workload and plan your week. By offering a clear overview of your commitments, My Week helps you stay organized, meet deadlines, and collaborate seamlessly with your team. It solves the problem of scattered information and provides a single place to manage your daily and weekly activities within Karbon.

Key Features/Benefits:

  • Centralized Visibility: See all your assigned work in one place.

  • Prioritization: Easily identify and focus on your most important tasks using the "Working on Now" bucket.

  • Workload Management: Get a clear understanding of your workload for the current and upcoming weeks.

  • Planning Capabilities: Schedule tasks for the current week, next week, and further into the future using intuitive drag-and-drop functionality and date selection.

  • Progress Tracking: Monitor the status and key details of your work items directly within My Week.

  • Efficient Filtering and Searching: Quickly find specific items based on various criteria.

  • Calendar Integration: Connect your email calendar to visualize your schedule and block out time for Karbon tasks.

  • Team Awareness (via Colleague's Week): Gain insight into your colleagues' workloads (if they have enabled sharing).

Use Cases/Examples:

  • Daily Task Management: Start your day by reviewing "This Week" and moving top priorities to "Working on Now."

  • Weekly Planning: At the end of the week, review "Next Week" and "Later" to prepare for the upcoming days.

  • Prioritizing Urgent Tasks: Quickly identify overdue tasks or items nearing their due date within "This Week."

  • Scheduling Future Work: Plan work items from repeating schedules in the "To Plan" bucket into your desired week.

  • Coordinating with Team Members: Check a colleague's "Colleague's Week" to understand their availability and workload (with their permission).

  • Blocking Out Focus Time: Drag work items from My Week onto your connected calendar to allocate specific time for focused work.

Further Reading 📖

  • How to Use My Week to Manage Your Work

  • How to Connect Your Calendar to Karbon

  • Understanding Colleague's Week

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