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 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

Turn on any combination of the six, or none of them. Each has its own page.

• Health & Wellness: training, recovery, and nutrition.
• Finance: spending, fixed costs, savings, and debt.
• Work & Career: focus time around your meetings, and the career moves you keep deferring.
• Relationships: your partner and your wider circle.
• Joy & Lifestyle: leisure, media, and travel.
• Mind & Growth: learning, ideas, projects, and decisions.

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 fixed cost 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. An area is useful as soon as it holds the basics, and it gets sharper as you add more.

Beyond the essentials, each area holds structured entries that build up as you use asambl: a logged session under Health & Wellness, a transaction under Finance, a trip under Joy & Lifestyle. The more you record, the more the planner has to reason about.

Areas and planners are not one to one

Six areas, seven planners. Relationships runs two, because your closest relationship and your wider social life need different things from a week. Planning both with one set of rules produces bad weeks for both. You still install and remove Relationships as a single area; the split is in how it is planned, not in what you manage.

Installing and removing areas

You are not locked into your first choices. Install or remove areas later in Settings, under Life Areas, as your life changes.

Removing an area takes its context out of planning without touching the always-on Life Planner rhythm. Your files for that area stay where they are, so turning it back on later picks up where you left off.

How an area is stored

Each area is a folder of plain Markdown, 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/, one folder per area. Health & Wellness, for instance, uses a folder named Fitness:

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

Every area follows the same shape, each with its own profile and logs. Your overall profile lives at 10_System/Profile.md. The individual area pages list what each one keeps.

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.