Drawing lines

By drawing lines, we can express the relationships between distant objects.

Drawing lines is not included in the original Kozane method. Also, in the KJ method, drawing lines is done after the spatial arrangement is completed.

Why? Because Kozane method/KJ method are created in the age of pen and paper. Once you draw a line with a pen, you can’t move objects on either end of the line. So you can’t draw lines until everything is moved and the location is finalized.

Now Kozaneba the electronic software solved the problem. You can draw a line between objects whose position has not yet been determined, and then move them again. Kozaneba surpassed the limits of the pen-and-paper methods. I feel it useful and do not want to go back to paper anymore.

However, I am not sure it is beneficial to users who are not familiar with Kozane method/KJ method. The function to draw lines gives the user more options. When there is a relationship between two objects, the user must choose whether to express the relationship by ”putting them close together” or by ”drawing a line between them.” It increases the burden until users see benefit of Kozaneba.

I have been doing the Kozane method/KJ method on paper for 10 years and has seen the benefits. In other words, drawing lines is not essential for the benefits. If you are wondering which is better between “putting them close together” and “drawing a line between them”, you should better to put them close together.

About the word “line”

Lines are describing the relationship between distant objects. This “distant objects” is not necessarily only two things. I call the concept “line” because I haven’t found a good word for it.

Excerpt from Release Notes

Arrows can now be added from the selection menu.
Create an API for adding arrows.
- Added the ability to draw arrows in bulk by user script.
Added double-headed arrows to the menu as I use them frequently.
- The previous menu to add single-headed arrows also clearly states that its head is right.
The “add arrow” is now images, making it easier to see what will happen.
- Added the ability to draw arrows in batches with a user script” on 2021-09-16.
- On 2021-09-17, “Add double-headed arrows to the menu since they are used frequently” and “Also, specify that the right side is the head in the menu for adding arrows”.
- These three changes were made to the menu in the image.
- Added the doubled line/arrow and the line without arrow heads
- In previous version, the statement “this and that are the same” is only expressed by proximity. From current version, you can simply express it with doubled line.
“Leave from lines” menu
- Leave from lines and arrow associations