How planning works

When you plan your week, asambl gives you back one coherent plan. Behind that single draft it runs a small team of planners, each focused on one part of your life, and does the work of reconciling them so you do not have to. This page explains what happens between your answers and the week you review.

One draft, a team behind it

A conductor reads your week and hands each life area that has something this week, a priority it owns or a note you gave it at the check-in, to its own specialist planner. When no area does, every area you plan gets one. Each specialist knows only its own part of life: the Health planner reasons about training and recovery, the Money planner reasons about spending and savings, and so on.

Giving each area its own planner means every part of your week is thought about properly, rather than one general pass that treats them all the same.

There are seven planners for six areas. Relationships runs two, one for your closest relationship and one for your wider circle, because the two need different things from a week.

They plan in parallel

The specialists work at the same time rather than one after another. While the Health planner sequences your training week, the Money planner is already drafting your spending, and every other area in the week is being planned alongside them.

Each one drafts against the same picture of your week: the priorities you locked, the energy you set for each day, and the events already on your calendar. Your job is part of that picture as fixed time: its hours and meetings are walls every planner works around, and none of them schedules the job itself.

The conflict check reconciles the clashes

Working in parallel means the specialists do not see each other's proposals as they draft, so their suggestions can collide. Before anything reaches you, asambl checks their proposals against each other and against your calendar, and catches the clashes: a late finish colliding with an early workout, three demanding days stacked in a row, more planned hours than the week can actually hold.

The conductor then reconciles those into a single plan, sized to the capacity you actually have. A week you mark as lower energy comes back lighter, because capacity is part of what the check reasons about.

You review one coherent week

What lands in front of you is one plan, not six separate to-do lists. You add the areas that fit, ask for a change where one is not quite right, and skip the rest; the week rebalances live around your decisions. Nothing is committed until you commit it.

See Weekly planning for the steps themselves, Week for the plans you have made, and Calendar for how the plan becomes real events.

Following along

If you want to see the working rather than just the result, the Plan thread page logs everything asambl recorded while planning the current week, in order. It ships hidden; turn it on in Settings, under General, in the Sidebar list. See Settings.

When plan generation is off

This whole flow needs Plan generation on: drafting the week is what the language model does. Turn it off in Settings, under Planning, and asambl will not draft the week. Plan your week says planning is off and points you back to that switch, and the rest of the app keeps working.