Animating Presentation Mode

Integrations
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Notenik v18.7.0 introduces Presentation Mode.

@hbowie’s goals are that Notenik can be used to craft and deliver a slide show to be presented to a group. This would be as an alternative to something like PowerPoint or Google Slides.

The presentation pack embedded in 18.7 comes with a strong caveat.

Notenik is best used for simple, straightforward presentations that are primarily text-based.

Fave text based tool does presentations but does not do images :crying_cat:

Tell work group that next presentation will be text only :rofl:

Fortunately, one of Notenik’s overarching goals is to play nicely with other tools. That is how we end up Notenik presenting a Preview slide deck.

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Requirements

  1. Notenik collection displayed in Presentation mode
  2. Folder of images, PDFs, and any other document able to be opened by Preview.
  3. The images and the notes in your Notenik collection must be synchronised. *

Setup

  1. Open your collection
  2. Using Finder, locate and select the images you want to display.
  3. Right click to open the submenu. Open with Preview.
  4. * Synchronise the order of your images using Preview’s sidebar to drag the images into the sequence that you want them.
  5. Right click the green traffic light button in window title. Move your mouse down to “Full Screen.” Hover there until the submenu is displayed. Choose the left/right position you want for your images.
  6. The other side of the screen will display all the app windows you have open. Choose your Notenik collection.
  7. Presto!

Options

  1. Use the vertical window bar to apportion the amount of screen each app gets
  2. Use Notenik’s view settings and display options to hide unwanted features.
  3. This can be used for any application. You could be presenting charts in a spreadsheet, or your work in progress in any other app.
  4. It doesn’t matter which app you start with. The screen options are built in to MacOS.

Cons

  1. You can’t switch apps inside the full screen view ( am I wrong? Let me know ). It would be nice to have a keyboard command to switch from Preview to another app, and back.
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Very cool!

And also, adding image display in Presentation mode is on my to do list, but just not done yet (or even started…).

Notenik 18.8.2 Available for Beta Testing on April 8th, 2026
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The latest beta has some improved support for using images in a presentation.

Documentation is not yet done, but here are a couple of tips, if you’d like to try it out now:

  1. The presentation starter pack has two image name fields, with the second one being intended for use when the App Appearance is set to Dark. If you like, you can set both the image name fields to display the same image. However, if you don’t set the dark image name and you are using a Dark display, then no image will appear.

  2. There’s a new field type available called Image Layout. It’s not yet incorporated into the starter pack, but you can add it manualy to the collection template file. Right now, there are only two options: having the image run the width of the presentation, or confining it to the right half. If you have other suggestions, then I’d be interested in hearing them.

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Will be exploring this asap.

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Would you provide a code sample for the Image Layout field please?

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See the even later beta for updated Knowledge Base info and an updated Presentation Starter Pack. You should be able to see code examples from either.

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