Start here

1. Click Edit (or press E) and type or paste your script. You can also import a Word or Google Docs file.
2. Click the red Done button when you're finished.
3. Press Play or the space bar. The script rolls up past the reading line.
4. Use ↑ and ↓ to go faster or slower while it rolls.
5. Press H to hide every button for recording. Press it again to bring them back.

Rolling the script

• Play starts and stops the roll. The dot next to the name turns red while it's rolling.
• Speed goes from slow to fast with the − and + buttons, or the up and down arrows.
• Back and Ahead slide the script two lines at a time, for when you trip over a word.
• Back to top jumps to the start.
• The numbers next to the buttons show how far through you are and about how long is left at this speed.
• The reading line is the band your eyes stay on. Drag the red arrows at either end of it to move it up or down.
• On a phone or tablet, double-tap the script to hide or show the controls.

Text on screen

The top of the Menu is always open. It changes the text size, the space between lines, the side margins, and whether the reading line shows and where it sits. Changes show straight away, even while rolling.

Writing and styling

• Click Edit to type. A red frame goes round the script and the Menu, a red Editing tag shows in the top bar, and a second row of buttons appears.
• That row styles the line your cursor is in, or just the words you select: font, size, bold, italic, underline, text color and highlight. Clear styling takes them off again.
• Outline draws an edge round the letters, in None, Thin, Medium or Thick and any color, for the selected words or the line. Style all text has the same Outline for every line.
• In Color and Highlight, Custom shows the color your selected words already have (when they're all one color), so you can match it or adjust it. The last 5 custom colors you used stay under Your colors.
• Style all text, at the right end of that row, sets the color, background, font and layout for every line at once.
• Markdown typing: type **words** for bold, *words* or _words_ for italic, # at the start of a line for a big line (## for a little bigger), and - for a bullet. It changes as you type the last mark. Press Ctrl+Z straight after if you wanted the marks themselves.
• Clear script erases everything. It asks twice, and you can still undo it for a few seconds afterwards.

My cues

• A cue is one script together with its look, its Settings and its shortcuts.
• Type a name and press Save. The name then shows in the middle of the top bar, so you always know which cue is open.
• Type a Folder name too, to group cues. Saved cues show under their folder; click a folder's name to fold it away. Move to… on any saved cue puts it in another folder, takes it out, or starts a new one.
• Click a saved cue to open it. Deleting one asks twice and offers Undo.
• Unless you sign in, your cues are kept only in this browser, on this device, and nothing is sent anywhere. Clearing your browser's data erases them.
• Save a backup file keeps every cue in one .cuecard file. Open it on another computer to move your cues there. The bar under the backup buttons shows how full this browser's storage is: it turns amber when it's time to save a backup, and red when it's nearly full.

Import & export

• Import & export opens like any other part of the Menu. Pressing Import or Export switches to Edit, so you can see the script you're bringing in or sending out.
• Import takes Word (.docx), Google Docs (download it as .docx), LibreOffice, RTF, web pages, Markdown, plain text and CueCard files. You can also drag a file onto the script.
• Imported files keep their words, lines, bold, italic and underline. Their colors and fonts are left out on purpose, so they always look right on the prompter.
• Export saves the script in the format chosen in the box beside it: Word, plain text, a web page, or a CueCard file (.cuecard) that holds the whole cue: script, look, Settings, shortcuts and folder. Import opens a .cuecard file exactly as it was saved; if it's a backup with several cues, they're added to My cues. The box remembers your choice.

Appearance

• Day or night: Night is light words on dark. Day turns the script and all the controls light, with dark words, for bright rooms and outdoors. Colored lines stay readable. You can give it a key of your own under Keyboard shortcuts.
• Flip left to right mirrors the words for a beam-splitter glass. Flip upside down turns the screen over for a monitor mounted upside down. Both apply while presenting; Edit always shows the words the right way round.
• Focus fade dims the lines above and below the reading line. The slider sets how much.

Playback

• Countdown counts down before the roll starts.
• Hide controls when I press Play brings them back when you pause.
• Click the script to play / pause, and keep the screen awake while rolling.
• Time: Count down shows how long is left at this speed; Count up shows how long you've been rolling (R, Back to top, resets it). Show total adds the whole script's running time, like 0:30 / 2:00. The top bar and the on-screen timer follow the same choice.
• Show a timer on screen puts that time in the corner. It stays visible when the controls are hidden.
• Show notifications pops up a small message confirming what you pressed while you're presenting, like the new speed. It's off by default, so nothing pops up during a show. While editing, these messages always show.

Voice tracking

The script follows you as you talk and stops when you stop. Turn it on in the Menu, pick your language, then press Play to start listening. It works in Chrome and Edge; Firefox and Safari can't turn speech into text. Chrome sends the audio to Google to turn it into text.

Floating window and remote

• Pop out the script (Chrome or Edge) puts the script in a small window that stays on top of Zoom, Meet or anything else. Drag it up next to your camera. If you share a single window or tab in your call instead of your whole screen, people won't see it.
• While the script is popped out, the space it left behind still works like the script: double-click it to hide or show the controls, and click it to play or pause if Click the script to play / pause is on.
• Pop out the controls does the opposite: the script stays in this window, and a small remote with Play, speed, Back, Ahead, Top, Hide and Full screen floats on top. For two screens, drag this window to the second screen and make it full screen there, then run the show from the remote.
• Only one of the two can be out at a time; opening one closes the other.
• A website can't hide itself from screen sharing; only an installed app can. The closest you can get: pop out the script, then in Zoom or Meet share a single window or tab instead of your whole screen. The floating window won't be in what people see.

Sign in & sync

Sign in to keep your cues on every computer. They're scrambled with a password only you know before they leave this browser, so the server can never read them. It's the same sign-in as AV Invoice Builder. What's stored, and where

Save the recovery key you're shown: if you forget the password, it's the only way back in. Tick shared or borrowed computer on a computer that isn't yours, and nothing is kept after the browser closes.

Keyboard shortcuts

Change any of these in the Menu, under Keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard button in the top bar shows this list too.

Privacy

Your cues stay in this browser on this computer unless you sign in, and then they leave only scrambled. Two things do reach Google: the fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, and voice tracking in Chrome sends your voice to Google to turn it into text. See what's stored, and where.