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You never start from a blank slide again

Write the topic in one line and a deck comes back ordered end to end: an opening, then the idea and its examples, then a recap at the close.

The deck's slide list: a strip across the top reading «The pages aren't written yet. The headings are ready and the order is yours. What each page says comes later», and under it slide 1 titled «Planets and the solar system» and slide 2 titled «What will we learn today?», each carrying a faint «Empty page» line. The top bar holds a 16 counter and a «Present» button.
16 headings in the order a period is actually taught in — and the deck tells you itself what is not written yet, rather than leaving you to find it standing in front of your class.

By the numbers

  • 16

    steps the outline walks, in order

  • 24

    the most slides one deck holds

  • 9

    looks a deck can wear

  • A4

    one slide per landscape page

From the period's topic to a deck you stand in front of

Four steps, and the first one is optional.

  1. 1

    Pick the curriculum, or skip it

    The grade, the subject and the topic, then who the deck is for: a class with you in front of it, or a student at home on their own. Skip it and String reads the deck's own title instead.

  2. 2

    Write the topic in one line

    «Planets and the solar system» is enough. Then ask for the length in a plain sentence: «add five slides», or «start with an opening slide».

  3. 3

    Keep what you like, discard the rest

    Slides arrive as proposals and none enters the deck before you accept it. Rename one, split it in two, merge two into one, and drag to reorder.

  4. 4

    Put it on the wall, or take it on paper

    Present mode fills the screen with one slide and the arrow keys follow the reading direction. If the projector is dead, print it A4 landscape, one slide per sheet.

Why it reads as a deck, not a list of headings

A deck is an order before it is slides, and that is the one thing a random draw from a list cannot produce.

  • Order before quantity

    Ask for three slides and you get an opener, the objectives and a definition, in that order. Ask for twelve and the examples and the comparison arrive too, with «what we learned» still last.

  • No heading appears twice

    Even a deck filled to the cap repeats no heading. «Step by step» appearing twice is the clearest way a generated deck gives itself away, so here it cannot happen.

  • Nine looks, not nine colours

    Each look changes the ground, the ink, the accent, the weight, the leading and the frame. The same look holds in Arabic and English, so a deck never becomes two decks depending on the language it opens in.

  • Nothing lands before you agree

    Suggestions are shown where they would land so you judge them in place, and you keep the ones you want and discard the rest. The deck never changes behind your back.

The outline it walks

16 steps, in the same order every time. A short deck takes the first of them, a long one reaches the last, and the closing stays the closing.

From the opening to the close

  • An introduction to the topic
  • What we'll learn today
  • Defining the core idea
  • The parts it is made of
  • A worked example
  • A second example from everyday life
  • Comparing two cases
  • Common mistakes
  • Practise it yourself
  • A question to discuss
  • Where we use it
  • What the numbers say
  • Step by step
  • A quick review
  • In summary
  • Where we go next

What you can do to any slide

  • Rename it with a clearer heading
  • Split it into two
  • Merge it with the one after it
  • Move it to the end of the deck
  • Duplicate it
  • Delete it
  • Drag it to a new position

Where the deck ends up

  • On the classroom wall

    One slide filling the screen, a tick per slide along the top telling you where you are, and a counter in the corner. Space or the arrow keys move you.

  • On A4 paper

    One slide per sheet, landscape, in the look you chose. You save it from the same print window you already know.

  • In Arabic and in English

    The deck follows the reading direction, down to the arrow keys: an Arabic deck advances leftward because that is the way its reader is already travelling.

  • Reorderable to the last minute

    The last period ran long? Drag two slides to the end on your way in, and nothing else moves.

The outline arrives finished. The pages you write

The deck says this above the slides rather than in a footnote: the headings are there, the order is yours, and what each page says comes from you. We repeat it here because the ordering is the part that eats your evening every time, and that part is done — and a teacher who discovers the rest while standing in front of a class will not believe another line we write.

Common questions

You get as many as you ask for, up to 24 in one deck, and you can ask for more in batches — the title corpus is wide enough that a deck filled to the cap still repeats no heading.

Every slide can be renamed, split, merged, moved, duplicated, deleted and dragged somewhere else, and suggested slides do not enter the deck at all until you keep them one by one.

A deck prints A4 landscape, one slide per sheet, in the look you chose, and you save it from your browser's own print window — which means a dead projector on a Sunday morning does not cancel your period.

A deck leaves String as a PDF and nothing else — one slide per A4 landscape page — and that is the only file it produces, said plainly here rather than left for you to find in an export window.

The outline is the shape a period takes in any subject — an opening, a definition, a worked example, the common mistakes, a summary — and you pick the grade, the subject and the topic before anything starts, so the headings are written about your topic rather than a generic one.

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