Introduction

What Lecture Studio is, what it needs, and how these docs are organized.

Lecture Studio is a native macOS app for teachers and speakers who write slide decks from their reading sources. A deck is a Marp Markdown file in a folder you own. The app gives that folder a library view, a three-panel workspace with a live preview, a presenter mode, and a writing assistant that reads your sources and cites them.

What it does#

• Keeps courses and talks as folders. A course is a folder of numbered units (weeks, sessions, modules and so on) with a syllabus and a context file. A talk is one deck. Everything is plain files; git is optional.
• Renders Marp Markdown live. The editor is CodeMirror with Marp helpers; the preview is what Marp renders; a slide rail and a "Check slides" scan flag text past the slide edge and missing images.
• Writes from your sources. Readings, papers, notes and old slides go into sources/ folders and are indexed. The assistant searches them and cites them under each answer: outlines, decks, speaker notes, practice questions, an instructor guide.
• Presents. An audience window with the slide and a break countdown, plus a presenter window with the next slide, the notes and a clock.
• Stays in sync. The library folder is watched, so changes from another editor, a git pull or a sync client show up on their own. When the folder is a git repository, a commit bar handles commit, push and pull.

Requirements#

How these docs are organized#

• Getting started covers installing the app, choosing a library folder, and connecting the assistant.
• Library explains the library screen, courses, talks, terms, units, the presenter profile, sources, and what lives on disk.
• Writing is the workspace: editor, preview, Marp decks, and the assistant.
• Presenting is presenter mode and exporting to PDF or PowerPoint with the Marp toolchain.
• Sync covers git and the library watcher.
• Reference lists every keyboard shortcut, menu item and setting, plus troubleshooting.

Where to get help#

The app is open source at github.com/ekremcet/lecture-studio. Bug reports and feature requests go to the issue tracker there. Releases, with their SHA-256 checksums, are on the same page.