Joy & Lifestyle

Joy & Lifestyle is the area most likely to be squeezed out, because nothing in it has a deadline. Turning it on means leisure competes for time alongside work and training rather than waiting for a gap that never comes.

Your joy profile

The profile holds the things you reliably enjoy, along with weekly targets for how much of them you want. This matters more than it sounds. Without it the planner is guessing at what counts as rest for you, and rest is not the same thing for everyone.

The Joy planner reads your targets when it drafts the week, so an area with a target of two evenings behaves differently from one with a target of five.

Media library

A library of the books, films, music, and podcasts you are working through.

Titles carry a status: Reading and Read for books, Watched for films, Rotation and Regular for the things you come back to, and Favourite for the ones that earned it. View it as shelves grouped by status, as a gallery, or as a table, depending on whether you are browsing or maintaining.

When asambl recommends a title and you want to think about it properly, journal about it opens a note for that title alone, so your thoughts on each book or film live in their own place rather than accumulating in one growing file.

Travel

A planner for trips, which are the one part of Joy that has hard dates and real consequences for the rest of your week.

Each trip holds its dates, destination, and status. A trip marked as an idea is deliberately not treated as a commitment, so a maybe never fences off a week you could still use.

Trips shape the week. A trip overlapping your Monday-to-Sunday planning week is read by every planner, not just Joy. Training plans around it, spending accounts for it, and the week is not drafted as though you were at home.

Schengen day counting. For trips to Schengen member countries, asambl tracks your days against the 90-days-in-180 rule, so you can see where you stand before booking rather than after.

What the planner does with it

Joy proposes into the week like any other area: leisure blocks, time for what is in your library, and preparation before a trip. It reads your targets, what you have actually done recently, and what is coming up.

Screens that ship hidden

Media Library, Travel, and Joy Profile ship as hidden screens. Turn on the ones you want in Settings, under General, in the sidebar section. Everything described above still feeds your plan whether or not the screen is visible; the toggle only controls whether it has its own place in the sidebar.

Where it lives

Joy & Lifestyle stores its files under 20_Life_OS/Joy/:

20_Life_OS/Joy/
  Joy_Profile.md     what you enjoy, and your weekly targets
  Media_Library.md   books, films, music, podcasts
  Travel.md          trips, dates, and destinations
  JoyLog.md          what you actually did

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