Welcome to the slide decks

A short guide to driving a deck

Press or Space to begin.

Moving around

Forward, back, and the bird’s-eye view.

Forward and back

Press Space to go through the whole deck in order. Or use and to step forward and back.

The arrows all move one slide at a time, so and do the same thing. The bar along the bottom shows how far through you are.

Sections

A deck is grouped into sections. This slide is in the “Moving around” section.

The faint label in the bottom-right names the section you are in, so you keep your place in a long deck.

To jump straight to another section, use the overview on the next slide.

See every slide at once

Press Esc or O for the overview grid. Every slide shrinks to a thumbnail, with each section in its own column: sections across, slides down.

Click any thumbnail to jump straight there. This is the quick way to move between sections.

The menu button in the bottom-left corner opens the same slides as a list.

Building slides

A couple of things slides can do.

Reveal one point at a time

Some slides build up step by step. Each press of brings in the next piece rather than moving on.

First this point appears,

then this one,

then the last one, before the next slide.

Speaker notes

Press S to open the speaker view: the current slide, the next one, your notes, and a timer, in a separate window. The audience never sees it.

This slide has a note. Press S now to read it.

Presenting

For when you are in front of an audience.

Full screen, and a pause

Full screen

Press F to fill the screen, and Esc to leave it.

Blank the screen

Press B or . to black out the screen when you want all eyes on you, and again to bring it back.

Every shortcut

Press ? at any time for the full list of keyboard shortcuts.

The ones worth knowing: move, Esc overview, S notes, F full screen, B blank, ? help.

Find your way home

On the public site at slides.causalmap.app, click Home in the top-right corner to return to the list of all decks.

That is everything. Pick a deck from the home page and press .

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