New Miro Slides: Benefits over Frames and Presenter Mode? Please explain.

​@Gábor Péter Kertes Miro likely displayed the feature nudge based upon Frames + your activating Presentation mode. However, the additional features that the Slides format offers may not provide any value to you.

Without knowing the finer details around your workflow, I’ll list a few additional features/benefits of the Slides format:

• Access to presenter notes outside of having to enter presentation mode - while in the Slide format’s Focus Mode, you have the presenter notes section onscreen and immediately available to you - handy when you’re designing your frames. When not using the Slides format, I believe you need to enter presentation mode before you can access presenter notes. However, this is somewhat similar to having to enter Focus Mode, so to each their own.
• If you are a Business or Enterprise subscriber, then you have access to the Synced copies feature and could create a synced copy of your presentation for consumption on another board.
• You could set the Slide format as the start view of the board, so a user could just click on a link and land on a board in an experience similar to opening a PowerPoint file.
• You could share a link that would open the Slides format in focus mode, without having to first set it as the default view of the board.
• Your frames would be in a nice container that could be easier moved around the board.

Thank you, ​@Robert Johnson, for collecting some potential benefits, I appreciate your help.

Indeed, a few of the extras you mentioned seem to offer limited value for my use case (like direct links and start view). Others – or comparable features – are also available for frames (such as presenter notes in edit mode, synced copies and the container frame for “slide” frames).

I suppose with some experimentation, this whole “formats & focus modes” approach will start to make more sense. Right now, it feels like a layer on top of what Miro already offered.

Hi ​@Gábor Péter Kertes 

FWIW using Miro to create presentations is 99.99% of what I do. I am a college teacher. I don’t just have hundreds of frames but probably many thousands.

In my case -- for how I work and what I do -- I see no value in the slide feature.

Here’s what my current board looks like:

I don’t want PowerPoint. If I wanted PowerPoint I would use PowerPoint. I like the flexibility that Miro offers → especially with a view towards exporting a PDF. So I can have a board with frames and stuff that is not on frames → so my students can then create a PDF and get the essential teaching slides/frames but the other stuff (like examples) is not printed.

But having said this, I also use a special app that I wrote myself that aligns my frames spatially. I can set the x-spacing between each frame and I can set the y-spacing between rows of frames. THAT was an annoyance that inspired me to write the app.

But I do think Robert is right or else Miro would not have implemented this feature: if you want a very PowerPoint like experience then probably the new Slide feature is the way to go! But even though I use my frames to give talks I want to stay closer to the Miro world.

Hope this helps!

Cheers, Ken

Thank you, ​@Kenneth Ritley for describing what you do with Miro. 🙌 That sounds pretty close to how I use presentations and frames. And yes, what I do goes beyond PP too, the audience interact on the slides in various ways – it is indeed an Interactive Presentation Mode –, so the final content is constructed during the event. (I eventually use “spacer” shapes to get my alignments right. Also, the PDF export as a hand-off.) 

Good point ​@Gábor Péter Kertes - same here with the interactivity. What I like is that when I am giving a talk in presentation mode, I can EDIT - so if I find a mistake it is not disruptive to fix it on the fly. Or embed student activities directly in the slides.