Presenting from ANVL
A deck you made in ANVL can now be presented from ANVL — with speaker notes, the next slide and a timer on your screen, and only the slide on theirs.
Presentation mode is in. Open a deck, start presenting, and you get two windows: the audience sees the slide, and you see the slide, the one coming next, your notes and a clock.
What is on your screen
The presenter view puts four things in front of you at once:
- The current slide, large enough to glance at without reading
- The next slide, so you can land the transition instead of discovering it
- Your notes for the slide you are on
- A timer you set to the length of the slot, counting what is left
Both windows are driven by the same keyboard. You never click twice.
The part that is easy to get wrong
Speaker notes are written per slide and stay with the deck. They are not a separate document that drifts out of date, and they are never shown to the room — which means they can say the things notes are actually for: hold this one for forty seconds, the number is the industry's, not ours.
Presenting to a screen in the room works through AirPlay's Extend mode rather than mirroring. Mirroring shows the audience your notes, which is the one thing the whole feature exists to prevent.