Improve present mode, speaker notes and present mode controls | Voters

Improve present mode, speaker notes and present mode controls

Peter Neumann

As a teacher, I present to a projector from my laptop and walk around with a mouse. In order to change slides, you have to use the scroll wheel, and if your card is short, you have to scroll 4 or 5 times before you card changes. Click the mouse has no effect; while clicking the arrow on the keyboard his works, and directing the mouse to the card tabs on the bottom of the presentation works, this is prohibits movement, or I have to stop and move the mouse precisely.

Recommended fixes are to allow the card to advance on a click of the mouse or if you have already scrolled to the end of the card, the next scroll should bring up the next card. Instead the white circle with the blue wheel shows up as a scroll needlessly.

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Custom Block Reveal Order in Spotlight Mode

Jingjing Zhang

Currently, Spotlight Mode reveals content blocks in a fixed sequence (top to bottom, left to right). For live presentations where I need to tell a story step-by-step, I'd like to control which blocks appear first.
Use Case: During presentations, I want to reveal specific text blocks in a custom order - not necessarily the layout order. For example, reveal a conclusion first, then supporting details, similar to PowerPoint's custom animation sequences.
Current Limitation: I have to arrange my content blocks physically on the card in the exact order I want them revealed, which limits design flexibility.
Requested Solution: Add the ability to set custom reveal sequences for blocks within Spotlight Mode, so presenters can control the storytelling flow independent of the visual layout.
This would make Gamma much more powerful for live storytelling presentations!

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Live captions for presenting

Cam Honey

Similar to Microsoft PowerPoint, when presenting can you incorporate the functionality to be able to have live captions generated from a connected bluetooth mic. Similarly with PowerPoint, can you also include the option to have them in other languages and visually customisable?

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

Great suggestion. This may be something we explore down the road!

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Options de diaporama dans le mode Presentation

Zachary Laverdure

Il est difficile d'exporté les présentation dans des applications comme Slide et Powerpoint sans perdre certains élèments, au lieux d'améliorer l'exportation pourquoi ne pas directement ajouté une options diaporama intégrer dans Gamma.app de cette manière ont peut utilisé l'app directement comme outils de présentation

Michelle Tran (Design @ Gamma)

Hi Zachary Laverdure! Thanks for the feedback! Our team is currently working on improving our export feature. Could you provide examples of where elements are lost when exporting?

Also could you describe what you mean by slideshow options?

Zachary Laverdure

Michelle Tran (Design @ Gamma) Hi Michelle,

Thanks for the quick reply, the main parts that get lost during exporting are the icons and image display format (See the attach). But like i said i would rather have a diaporama mode included in gamma.app that way no need for export. It would just need some options for auto next slide every few seconds (Diaporama basically)

Zachary Laverdure

Michelle Tran (Design @ Gamma) Oops forgot the attach for the previous reply

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Showing all thumbnails as a series of images (all together across slides)

Wendy Hartono

I want to move quickly between slides. But the bottom thumbnails not showing the image and I need to hover one by one choose which slide to switch

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Presenter Notes

Karen Welch

It would be really great if you could add a "hand" icon to the presenter notes so as you are adding notes you can move or scale the notes box are needed so you can read the slide you are adding them too and edit the notes on the page in real-time. I find that I am having to close the presentation to read the rest of the slide and there is not a picture reduction icon I can use to reduce or scale the box as I am adding to it.

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Presenter View not working correctly

Karen Welch

I'm having trouble casting my gamma presentation through the App so it shows a presenter view on my laptop and the audience view on 1 additional monitor. When I put my laptop into "extend" mode, the presenter view shows on both screens. Do you have a fix for this?

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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When advancing slide, notes should start at the top

Nejm Benessaiah

This is simple but would be very useful: when I am presenting my slides on a second screen, while looking at my notes on my laptop, each time I advance a slide, I need to scroll to the top. This should happen automatically.

Nik Payne (Gamma design)

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Presenter view useless with only one screen

Laura Reyes

I love the cards I can create with Gamma, but powerpoint has better options for presenter view. I like to have more images in my presentations and I always use my notes to have a smooth presentation, but now I have lovely cards that I will not be able to use because I only have one screen and I cannot use the notes I did on my gamma cards, so I have to download as powerpoint and start editing everything again bacause the font is always altered. Quite frustrating

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