How it works
You press NEXT. Their phone lights up. They tap once. You know.
SlideCue never touches your slides. It carries a message between two people, and the person running the deck decides what to do with it. That is the whole design, and it is why it works the same on Zoom, Teams, Webex, Google Meet, a livestream, or a room with a projector and a laptop.
Open SlideCue and press Start. You get a four-character code.
Tap the code to copy a link and paste it to whoever is running the deck. They need no account and nothing installed.
Press NEXT, or click the presentation remote you already own. Their screen goes green.
This is the operator's screen, running on its own. Notice that the colour drains as the cue ages, so a glance tells you whether it is fresh or stale without reading a number. A new cue snaps back to full colour, which is what separates two NEXT cues sent back to back.
Most tools send and hope. This one closes the loop, so you are never left wondering whether the silence means they are about to advance or never saw it.
Nothing pending. The operator's screen is dark.
The cue is on the operator's screen, ageing in plain sight.
One tap. The presenter reads Seen and the time.
Nobody confirmed. The presenter is told, rather than left guessing.
If you are presenting
Open the session, enter your first name, and choose I am presenting. Keep the tab in front while you speak: a presentation remote types into whichever window has focus, so if you click into Zoom the page tells you the clicker is paused.
If you are running the slides
Open the link, enter your name, choose I run the slides, then press Tap to arm. Phones refuse to make sound, vibrate, or stay awake until you tap something, so this step is required after every reload. Prop the phone where you can see it and keep running the deck as you always do.
Presentation remotes do not speak a special language. They type. So any Logitech, Kensington, or unbranded remote works with no pairing and no configuration.
| Keys | Sends |
|---|---|
→ Page Down N | NEXT |
← Page Up B | BACK |
↓ H | HOLD, meaning stay put and ignore anything pending |
Space Enter F5 Esc | Deliberately ignored. Clickers send these to start a show or blank the screen, and they must never move a slide. |
Holding a key sends one cue, not fifty. A double click within 600 milliseconds sends one cue, not two.
Re-arm the page, and if it still sleeps, turn off auto-lock in the phone's display settings. Browsers only allow a page to hold the screen awake in some circumstances, and we tell you when the request was refused rather than pretending.
The ringer is off. Vibration works either way, which is why both are on by default.
Brief drops are normal and are not shown for the first two seconds. If it persists, cues are refused rather than queued, and the presenter is told Not sent. A stale NEXT arriving after the moment has passed is worse than no cue at all.
Another window has focus. The page shows an amber banner saying so. Click the page to take focus back.