Life areas

Life areas are the parts of life asambl plans with you. You choose which ones to turn on. An area you do not turn on does not shape your week, so you only carry the context you actually want planned.

Life Planner is always on

Life Planner holds the weekly and quarterly rhythm that sits at the centre of asambl. It is always on and cannot be removed. Everything else is optional and arranges itself around this rhythm.

The six optional areas

You can turn on any combination of the six areas below, or none of them.

• Work and Career: projects, workload, and your working hours. Your job is already on the calendar, so asambl plans around it: it protects focus time next to your meetings and schedules the career moves you keep deferring, sized to the week you actually have.
• Health and Wellness: training, recovery, and nutrition (meals, macros, and weight).
• Finance: spending, debts, savings, and holdings.
• Relationships: your partner and your wider social life, with check-ins for both.
• Joy and Lifestyle: leisure, media, and rest.
• Mind and Growth: learning, projects, values, and reflection.

Turning an area on tells asambl to plan that part of your life. Leaving it off keeps it out of your week entirely.

What an area holds

Each area you turn on holds your real context: the goals you are working toward, the people you care about, and the things you track. This is not decoration. The context inside an area is exactly what the planner reads when it builds your week. A goal under Health, a person under Relationships, or a policy under Finance all become inputs the plan can act on.

When you turn an area on at setup, you add a few essentials so it has something real to work with. You do not need to fill everything in at once. The area is useful as soon as it holds the basics, and it gets sharper as you add more over time.

Structured entries per area

Beyond the essentials, each area can hold its own structured entries that build up as you use asambl. For example:

• A workout log or a logged meal under Health and Wellness.
• A transaction under Finance.

These entries stay attached to their area and feed the same planning loop. The more you record, the more the planner has to reason about when it shapes your week.

Installing and removing areas

You are not locked into your first choices. You can install or remove areas later in Settings as your life changes. Turn one on when you want asambl to start planning around it, and turn one off when you no longer want it in your week. Removing an area takes its context out of planning without touching the always-on Life Planner rhythm.

How an area is stored

Each area is a folder of plain Markdown in your vault, so nothing is locked away in a database. If you want to read or back up your context outside asambl, open the folder in Finder or any Markdown editor.

A turned-on area keeps its files under 20_Life_OS/. The Health and Wellness area, for instance, stores its files in a folder named Fitness:

20_Life_OS/Fitness/
  Fitness_Profile.md    the area's profile
  TrainingLog.md        your logged entries

Every area follows the same shape, each with its own profile and logs. Work and Career keeps its files under a Work folder; Finance has Finance_Profile.md and SpendingLog.md; Mind and Growth has a LearningLog.md and a DecisionLog.md. Your overall profile lives at 10_System/Profile.md.

asambl manages these files for you, so editing inside the app keeps everything in step. Some helper files, such as the per-area Notes.md, are hidden by design to keep the folder tidy. You can still open any file directly in a Markdown editor if you prefer.

Your vault stays on your machine. When AI is on, only the prompt for a specific planning request goes to asambl's managed AI endpoint, and it is not stored long-term. You can switch AI off entirely; the areas and their entries remain yours to keep and edit either way.