Zoids — Presentations

A Zoid is a presentation. It's a document made of slides instead of flowing text. Each slide is a fixed 16:9 canvas you fill with shapes, text, images, and connections — and you can play the whole thing full-screen.

If you've used slide software before, the model is familiar. What's different in Doczoid is that every slide is a full Diagram canvas, and that slides can pull in live PortalSnips that stay up to date.

Creating a Zoid

• Click New Zoid on your home screen.
• It opens in the Zoid editor, ready for its first slide.
• Zoids appear under the Zoids filter on the home screen and are labeled "Presentation" throughout the app.

A Zoid is a Doc's sibling — both are documents in your Team, but a Zoid holds slides rather than text blocks.

The anatomy of a Zoid

A Zoid is an ordered list of slides. Each slide holds:

• Nodes — the shapes, text, images, and PortalSnips placed on the slide.
• Edges — the connecting lines between shapes.

Every slide is the same fixed 16:9 shape, so your presentation stays consistent from slide to slide.

Working with slides

The slide editor shows a thumbnail sidebar down one side and the active slide in the main area.

• Add a slide to extend the deck.
• Duplicate a slide to reuse a layout.
• Reorder slides to change their sequence.
• Delete a slide you no longer need.
• Jump to any slide by clicking its thumbnail.

Move between slides while editing with the previous/next controls or the keyboard shortcuts Cmd+Left and Cmd+Right.

Building a slide

A slide canvas works just like a Diagram:

• Add shapes from the toolbar — rectangles, circles, flowchart symbols, arrows, lines, text, images, and emoji.
• Connect shapes with edges that snap to anchor points (top, right, bottom, left).
• Style shapes with fill, stroke, text color, alignment, and font size.
• Group related shapes inside a Container to keep them tidy and themed.
• Insert a PortalSnip to drop in reusable content that updates automatically.

Presentation mode

When you're ready to show the deck, enter presentation mode. This displays slides in a focused, read-only view — nothing can be edited by accident — and you advance through them with the arrow keys.

Tips

• Because each slide is a true canvas, you can build rich, diagram-driven slides rather than bullet lists.
• Reuse a diagram across several slides (or several presentations) by turning it into a PortalSnip — then a single edit updates every slide that uses it.
• Keep a layout consistent by duplicating a slide and editing the copy, rather than starting from scratch.

Related

• Diagrams — how the slide canvas works.
• Containers — group and theme shapes on a slide.
• PortalSnips — live, reusable content for your slides.
• Collaboration — present and edit together.