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Present it live

Presentation mode turns any diagram into a live talk: the audience sees the diagram full screen and you advance it one step at a time while you speak.

  1. Write speaker notes for each step: in the editor, select a step and fill in Speaker notes, or add "notes" to the step in the JSON. They’re never shown in the diagram.

    { "show": ["e2"], "flow": "e2", "caption": "The gateway asks the bank", "notes": "Mention that this call usually takes under 300 ms." }
  2. Press Present in the editor (or in a shared diagram’s viewer). A window opens for the audience.

  3. Press N to open your notes in a second window, and drag it to your laptop screen. Press F for full screen on the projector.

Key Action
→ Space click Next step
← Previous step
Home / End First / last step
N Open your notes
F Full screen
? Show the help again

Wireless presenters (clickers) work too: they send Page Down and Page Up.

The presenter window shows the notes for the current step in large type, what the audience is reading now, what comes next, a small preview of the diagram and a timer. It has its own Previous and Next buttons.

The two windows stay in sync: you can advance from either one.

After the last step, advancing once more shows the audience a closing screen with “Thank you” and the diagram’s title. Press ← to go back to the diagram.