Weakness of bullet points

Example

• A
  • B
  • C
  • D

This is because the BCD lisp

(time-series
	B
	C
	D)

seven days lisp

(parallel
	B
	C
	D)

I don’t know if it is.

And the relationship with A. lisp

(define A (list
	B
	C
	D))

seven days lisp

(has-children A (list
	B
	C
	D))

I don’t know if it is.

Conversely, this is similar to the KJ method, which expresses a relationship somehow by “putting them close together”.

• The same indentation makes you think, “I don’t know if this is a chronological list or an unordered list, but it must be some kind of a grouping.
• Parental hierarchy becomes “I wonder if it’s some kind of higher concept”.
  • Sometimes it’s a tree-board style “child refers to parent” relationship.
    • Here’s a case study

Can be expressed in a more flexible way compared to writing sentences out of the blue.

• That’s why there are so many people who use an outliner to write bullet points and then a writing style.
  • At least until just a few years ago, the KJ method didn’t have enough screen resolution to do it digitally.

Even with bullet points, there is a need to “describe the relationship between distant objects” as described in [Why are lines essential? - Isn’t it strange that Scrapbox’s in-page linking is not easy?

• Weakness of [itemization
• relevance - Weakness of one-dimensional language

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