Present Your Timeline

Preceden's Presentation Mode lets you present your timeline to a group.

Say you want to present this timeline to an audience:

A timeline named Technology Roadmap in the Preceden editor, its Steven and Mary layers running below the editor's row of buttons

The editor stays wrapped around it: the navigation links and every control you use to work with your timeline. You probably don't want any of that on screen while you present.

You could download the timeline as an image and drop it into a PowerPoint slide, but a timeline with a lot of content has to shrink to fit, which can distort it and make it hard to read.

Using Presentation Mode

Presentation Mode solves both problems: it shows just your timeline, inside Preceden.

To open it, click the Share button above your timeline, then click Presentation Mode.

Then click the Enter Presentation Mode button:

The Presentation Mode dialog, suggesting full screen and offering an Enter Presentation Mode button

Your timeline now has the page to itself:

The same Technology Roadmap timeline in Presentation Mode, showing only the timeline with the editor's buttons hidden

You may also want to enter full screen mode in your browser to hide the browser window itself. Most browsers put this under View > Enter Full Screen Mode, give or take the exact wording.

Presentation Mode starts at the top of the page, so on a long timeline you scroll down through it as you talk. If you zoomed in by clicking and dragging or with Zoom into date range before you started, the left and right arrow keys move the timeline earlier or later in time. Hovering over an event still shows its details, just as it does in the editor.

To present only part of a timeline, type a word into the Search box above the timeline before you enter Presentation Mode. Only the events whose name or notes contain it stay on screen, along with every event in a layer whose name or notes contain it. Clear the Search box afterwards to bring the rest back.

When you're done, click anywhere on the page or press the escape key to return to the normal editor.

The one click that doesn't take you back is the arrow beside a layer's name. It still collapses or expands that layer, so you can start with a layer collapsed and open it when you reach it. Preceden saves the change, the same as when you collapse a layer in the editor.

We may add more to Presentation Mode later, such as automatic scrolling or revealing events one at a time. If either of those would help, or you have another idea, email us at [email protected].