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Create and share confidence monitors with NextSlide

Put your notes and slides, in sync, on any device or screen your presenter can see. That's all a confidence monitor is - and with NextSlide it's a link, not a hardware project.

New to confidence monitors? Here's what you've been missing

A confidence monitor is simply a screen only the presenter can see - facing the stage, on a tablet in their hand, or beside their laptop - showing the current slide, the next slide, or their speaker notes. It's how polished speakers never turn their back to the room to check the projector, never lose their place, and always know what's coming next.

Traditionally that meant video splitters, extra machines, and views that drift out of sync. With NextSlide, each view is just a link: open it on any device with a browser, take it full screen, and it locks itself to the live presentation. See it working on the live demo →

Already know what you need? The whole setup:

  1. In the studio, open the three-dot menu → Share.
  2. Copy the view you want: active slide, next slide, or notes.
  3. Open the link on the device or screen, go full screen. Done - it stays in sync.

Find your confidence-monitor links

In the studio, click the three-dot menu and select Share. Alongside the presenter link you'll find links for the active-slide, next-slide, and notes views.

The NextSlide share menu open over the event view - dedicated links for the presenter, active-slide, next-slide, and notes views, with the clean feed row expanded

Option 1 - Hand the links to your presenters

Share the links directly. Each presenter opens one on their own device - tablet, laptop, or desktop - picks the view they prefer, and takes it full screen.

A tablet running the next-slide link full screen, previewing the upcoming slide as a confidence monitor
Next-slide view
Notes view
Both views - in sync with the live deck

That's the whole setup - one link per device, nothing to install. Get started free →

Option 2 - Drive several venue screens from one laptop

Open each view link in its own browser window on your laptop, then plug the laptop into the venue screens with HDMI. Drag each window onto a screen - active slide on one, notes on another - and make each one full screen. Every screen shows one view, big and clear.

One laptop, three venue screens - every view in sync

Combine them

Mix and match. A presenter can hold an iPad on stage while venue monitors show the same views around the room - and remote presenters open their own links and see their notes and slides from wherever they are. However many screens you add, every one stays in sync.

Easier done than said - try it now.

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A laptop presenting a bright slide full screen in the NextSlide audience view.