Journal, Tasks & Reminders

asambl keeps three quick tools in a slim rail down the right edge of the desktop app. They sit one click, or one shortcut, away from wherever you are, so you can jot a thought, add a task, or set a reminder without leaving what you were doing.

The rail shows on wider windows and tucks away on a narrow one. On the go, your phone has the Companion for the same kind of quick capture.

Open any tool from the rail, or with the keyboard shortcut shown in its tooltip: Journal is ⌘⇧J, Tasks is ⌘⇧T, and Reminders is ⌘⇧R.

Journal

A daily journal. Each day is its own entry, saved as a plain Markdown file in your vault, one file per date. Give an entry a title, add tags, and write. It saves as you go, and you can move between days or search every entry you have written.

Two things are worth knowing:

• The privacy lock. Every entry has a lock. A locked entry is private: it is left out of search, kept away from AI agents, and gets no inline AI edits. Use it for anything you want to keep entirely to yourself.
• Inline AI. On an unlocked entry, you can select a passage and ask asambl to rework it in place. As everywhere else in asambl, only the text of that request goes to the managed AI endpoint, and only when AI is on. A locked entry never does.

Mood tracking is available too. Turn it on in Settings, then tag each entry with how the day felt.

Tasks

A quick to-do list, grouped by life area. Type a task in plain language, including when it is due, like "call mum tomorrow", and asambl reads the date for you. Tag a task with a life area to keep it grouped, check it off when it is done, or delete it.

Tasks here are authored directly in the panel and kept in a single Markdown file in your vault. A to-do you capture instead, with the todo tag or sent from your phone, lands in your Inbox to triage rather than in this panel. The two are separate on purpose: the Inbox is for sorting what you caught on the fly, and the Tasks panel is the standing list you keep.

When a task with a life area is ready to become real work, promote it. That opens Ask asambl with the task addressed to that area's agent, ready to fold into your weekly ritual and land on the calendar as a scheduled block.

Reminders

Reminders nudge you at the right moment. When one fires, asambl shows a system notification, and reminders with a set time also appear on your calendar. There are four ways to trigger one:

• At a time. A specific date and time.
• When I open a page. The next time you open a chosen page, such as your Inbox or Plans.
• Before an event. A lead time before a calendar event, from five minutes up to a day ahead.
• On a missed week. If a week goes by without your planning ritual, asambl reminds you to run it.

Reminders you set on the desktop are managed here. A reminder you capture from your phone behaves like any other capture: it goes to your Inbox rather than scheduling itself.

Where this data lives

Everything in these three tools stays local. Journal entries and your task list are plain Markdown files in your vault, so you can read or back them up in any editor. Your vault stays on your machine. When AI is on, only the prompt for a given request, such as an inline journal edit, goes to asambl's managed AI endpoint, and it is not stored long-term. You can switch AI off entirely, and the journal, tasks, and reminders all keep working without it.