Bullet points

If you read the previous entries in my journal / blog post / thought dumping substrate, you probably noticed the way of writing is special. id:: 693c7d29-1968-4ae4-97d4-8f6ddf35e0fe

It's probably not related to style, but to formatting
You may find it very annoying
- maybe even clunky to read
And you're probably wondering when the next item in this list will be.

This is a semi-deliberate choice. I decided to give a go to LogSeq, a note-taking #OpenSource software that is built around the idea of "blocks". This mean that every content, every conceptual knowledge item is an item in a list. This allow to do funny things like linking to other blocks. That's completely overkill for a blog, and probably pointless. But I had to try to be sure. And adding constraints drives progress.

As a side note, I implemented part of the blog generation logic by myself. So they are missing features, and I'm not sure I will have the time / motivation to implement linking blocks. I will probably write a post about how this blog generator works in the future. id:: 693c81cf-36f5-484e-a37a-881806f52a7c

So let's list some advantages of list items

They are easy to display with html
They can be nested recursively
- They can be nested recursively
- They can be nested recursively (as deep as you want)
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- They can be .. ok I think you got the point
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Because they are trees, they can represent a wide variety of data:

Dendograms
Typologies (classes and subclasses)
folders
very detailed tasklists
syntax trees

example:

- because

        - representing

                - item lists

                - trees

        - being usefull

                - item lists

                - to

                        - express

                                - unambiguously

                                - stuff

                                        - grammatical

They force you to thing about structure first, content second
They can even be numbered !
- 1) This makes you look serious
- 2) This allows you to refer to previous points, which is more important than 1)
- 3) But this can be a trap, because sometimes you realize a simple list would have been enough.
they are faster to type, and I have also noticed that they are easier to write than paragraphs when I'm brain-dead
- talking about being brain dead ...
They can be folded, which is very powerful for explanations
- You can even use them to add details to something you write, like a footnote ! That's a great pedagogical tool.
They reflect the Dyck language. Make what you want from this information.

And some drawbacks:

Tree are less expressive than graphs
- They can't handle cycles
- They can't handle repeating repeating content, see ((693c81cf-36f5-484e-a37a-881806f52a7c))
- They are directed. You can't have just 2 blocks that refer to each other like wikipedia pages
They can get very boring. If you sleepwalk into them. They kill narration and remove emotion. Here is an illustration:
- List items can be boring
- In particular when they repeat
- In particular when they repeat
- When there is no connection
- When sentences are the same
- When there is no rythm
- They are boring as fuck
- You may need this remedy
LLM love them. So you may LLMize yourself
- I jailbroke myself LOL
- Wait, actually it is not what the user want. Let's re-think about the situation
- In conclusion, list items have advantages and drawbacks — You have to chose wisely when they should be used.
- https://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf

If you want even more discussion about "outlines" (another name for list item content), go read this blogpost from a friend of mine Ok, I think I will stop there.

Well, technically, you added a line after that 🧠
- Shut up !