Planned feature
This feature is not available yet. Here is what is planned, so you can tell whether it will cover your need — and tell us if it will not.
Status — design settled
Planned availability — server mode only
In short
A report projects as it is: nothing to convert and no second document to keep in step. A separator line in the text cuts a slide, and the presentation shows the same content, read-only.
One single document
This is the decision that shapes the whole feature: there is no “document” on one side and a “presentation” on the other. The presentation is a view of the report.
The practical consequence matters more than it sounds: the day you correct a figure in the text, the slide is corrected too. No version drifts, because there is only one.
What is planned
Cutting by separator
A separator line inserted in the text marks the end of a slide. What follows starts the next one.
No setting, no special editing mode: you write, and you place a separator wherever the projection should move to a new screen.
Your blank lines shift nothing
Empty paragraphs around a separator are ignored. You can therefore space your text out as you usually would without producing a blank slide.
What the room sees
The same content, read-only: the editing tools disappear, and a figure appears exactly as it does in the document.
The content is scaled to fill the screen. Below a certain reduction the slide scrolls rather than shrinking further — better to scroll an overloaded slide than to make it unreadable.
A practical consequence
A very long slide stays readable but will need scrolling during the talk. If that happens often, it is a sign to add a separator.
Navigating
Moving between slides is done from the keyboard, with a short cross-fade, and the projection can fill the screen.
What is not settled yet
These come up naturally about a presentation mode; none is designed at this stage, and it is better to say so.
- Speaker notes — text visible only to you during the talk.
- A presenter view — the next slide and a timer on a second screen.
- A slide overview — a bird’s-eye view to jump straight to the right one.
Presentation and export move separately
Presentation mode and export are independent of one another: they may arrive in either order. If you need an editable deck rather than a projection from inside Linkr, PPTX export is the thing to look at — see Exporting a report.
Going further
- Overview — what a report is, and how figures go into it.
- Exporting a report — producing an editable deck.
- Dashboards in fullscreen — projecting a live monitor, which exists today.