oo as presentation tool

[henri]

I made a presentation to my colleagues using OO instead of PP, and it's become quite the rage. Several of them are now using OO as a presentation tool, and consider it way better than PP.

It's certainly becoming my default app for this -- instead of the linearity of PP, you have the meaningful hierarchy of an outline -- your audience knows where you are in the flow of the presentation.

To make that work even better, I've changed the keys for "hoist" and "unhoist" to be command-shift-up-arrow and c-s-down-arrow, so I can zoom in and out on various items in the presentation with ease.

[DerekM]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[live4ever]

I'd love to see an example of how you did this.

[henri]

I'd love to see an example of how you did this. Just a regular outline, largish font, some graphics and use of color. When presenting, I navigate through the outline from beginning to end. When needed for clarity or focus, I hoist the current topic to zoom in on it. One difference with a normal outline is that I sometimes just keep nesting bullets further and further in -- in order to reveal them one at a time -- even though they are conceptually at the same level. I only do that at the locally innermost level as it would be confusing elsewhere.

I'd attach a file, but the couple of examples I have are too big, even zipped. One will probably end up on my Web site, but I'm not there yet.

[hardcoreUFO]

The problem with presentation mode, in my exeprience, is that it is difficult to place background images (e.g. your chosen presentation theme). If the image does not fit *exactly*, it expands the canvas to accomodate the image size, which is not the behaviour you expect.

[JKT]

hardcore - wrong software ;)

The OP is using OmniOutliner not OmniGraffle.