The slides interface is supposed to be for the presenter, really, not for the general public. The benefit to the presenter is if someone from the audience says "I'd like you to go back to the slide where you talked about X" -- finding the slide in a 2D-organized deck is much easier by going to overview and finding the right contextual column.

I find slides.com very handy because I can present from any web browser and don't have to worry about bringing my laptop.

It was a bit annoying at the start but I loved the content. Next time I'm rebuilding my Mac (probably when new ones come out around June 13th) I'm going to use this hardening guid which might help a bit:

https://github.com/drduh/OS-X-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

These two scripts may help you with your setup:

https://github.com/SummitRoute/osxlockdown

https://github.com/kristovatlas/osx-config-check

This guide is great. Is there a similar guide more focused on Linux particularly Ubuntu out there? I found [0] a bit lacking. [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BasicSecurity

Thanks corndoge, your link is great. I love the check-list layout.

Just use your spacebar and it'll navigate you linearly, taking you down ad across the pseudotree as you need. Edit, or click downarrow, if no spacebar.

See my comment here [0] with its genuine, but as yet unanswered question:

  If you hit space, how do you know
      you end up seeing every slide?

Every seems to be chipping in with these navigation hints, and that's great, but no one seems to answer my question. The site seems to be a triumph of presentation over usability, and I'd really like an insight into the minds of those people who think it's all obvious and usable.

For example, someone else said[1] that if you hit ESC you get an overview. How do you find that? What if you don't have an escape key, such as on my tablet?

I'm not trying to be grumpy or anti-anything, I'm trying to gain an insight into how people think this is a good thing, and to provide, in return, an insight into why I think it's unusable.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653447

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653323

Slides.com is focused on the presentation. The audience is not typically interacting directly with the deck.

When you create a deck, there is a pretty good tutorial explaining how the interface works, including what spacebar and escape do.

The real advantage of the service, for me, is the support for embedding any digital media you want into a slide via iFrames, and the ability to use your phone/tablet to advanced slides and see speakers notes if your venue did not provide you with a clicker.

It also has another pretty neat feature where audience members can pull up the presentation on their laptops/tablets to follow along, and their slides will automatically advance to match my progress through the deck.

I'm just trying to explain why its very much a tool for the presenter, not the presentee.

Edit: Slides.com is a locked down instance of reveal.js

Here is a link to their deck, explaining all of its features http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/

It seemed to me that every time it went sideways, that new vertical had no upper parts to that tree. I wish i could diagram it here, but it seems this one was well-formed. I often check, and after 3 times this happening, I trusted the storyteller. I can' guarantee that another writer wouldn't do this differently as I don't know the tech, but this one seemed well-constructed. Did you not look and see that when you were clicking down and it went sideways to the right, there was no up option on the next slide?

I am on mobile, and while there was a set of 4 arrows to navigate vertically and horizontally as required, there was no spacebar equivalent. You had to tap each time to animate in the next bullet point. And you had to differentiate between light brown and slightly lighter brown under your finger to know when you reach the bottom of a column.

What about tablets?

Each horizontal slides talks about one thing. That one aspect is discussed vertically.

If you want to browse normally (linearly):

    1 go down until you can't do down anymore
    2 go right once
    3 goto 1