Tutorial

Requirements

You must have the Times New Roman font installed on your machine. It's not open-source, so I cannot provide it as part of the application. Your browser must support canvas (it likely does).

Step 1: Draft

Start with the information you want to convey - you may get 'No bullets of length/all bullets over length' - this is fine to start.

Modernized award/annual review process; devoted 80hrs/engineered app--established AF-wide SOP/saved 3,500 man-hours annually

Step 2: Optionalize

You can then begin to create substitutions by separating sections that can be substituted/reworded/omitted onto their own lines, and chaining options on the same line with pipes (|). You can also make certain blocks 'optional' by placing a trailing pipe with no option after it. Example:

As you begin to do this, Bulletpress will start chewing through every possible permutation of the bullet you wrote and begin spitting out bullets that meet the line-fill requirement (sorted by how close to the line they are). This is your brainstorming phase, so every idea is a good idea to start. Once your browser starts lagging because you have too many options, that's a good sign you should move to the next step.

Step 3: Prune

Look at your top bullets and highlight the weakest portions of them. Remove those options entirely until you're left with around 10 or fewer outputs. Example:

Pruning just a few options leaves me with only 4 outputs:

- Modernized awd/annual review process; dedicated 80hrs/engineered app--established total-force SOP/saved 3.5K hrs
- Overhauled awd/annual review process; dedicated 80hrs/engineered app--established total-force SOP/saved 3.5K hrs
- Modernized awd/yearly review process; dedicated 80hrs/engineered app--established total-force SOP/saved 3.5K hrs
- Overhauled awd/yearly review process; dedicated 80hrs/engineered app--established total-force SOP/saved 3.5K hrs

Step 4: Iterate

First, retain all the information you entered, even if your remaining outputs don't use all of it. This will allow you to skip most of step 2 as you add information, strip information, adjust the impact, discover new approved abbreviations, etc. Second, now that you've got draft 1 of your bullet, jump back into step 2 and work on it to make a slightly stronger version. Bulletpress can't remove the amount a bullet will be iterated on, but it can make the time required to iterate on a bullet significantly less.