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The Flow editor

The fastest way to make or change a song is the Flow panel: the presentation’s words as plain text. Type, and the slides follow.
  • An empty line ends a slide.
  • A line like Chorus or Verse 2: starts a group.
  • Chords in brackets — [G]Amazing [C]grace — sit over the letter after them.
  • Paste a chord sheet from a website, ChordPro, OnSong or a page of HTML, and it’s tidied into that shape as it lands.
Screenshot to come

To capture: The Flow panel beside the slides, a chorus being typed and the slides following.

Settings for songs as they arrive — Lines per Slide, and Add Blank Slides at the Beginning and End — are in Settings › Themes.

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Groups

A group is a run of slides with a name and a colour: Verse 1, Chorus, Bridge.
  • In Flow, a heading line starts one.
  • On the slides, right-click and choose Group. One slide starts a group that carries on to the next. Several picked slides are each put in the group, and the slides around them keep theirs.
  • New Group… names one and picks its colour; None takes the group off.
Set up the groups offered on every slide, and their colours, in Settings › Groups & Labels. Names match loosely, so “Pre-Chorus”, “prechorus” and “PreChorus” share a colour.

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Labels

A label names one slide — “repeat”, “instrumental”, a note for whoever is at the desk. Right-click and choose Label. Labels have colours too, set in Settings › Groups & Labels.

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Arrangements

An arrangement is the order a song is sung in: Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2, Chorus, Chorus. Keep several for different services, and choose which one a service uses. A chorus sung three times is one set of slides played three times — fix it once.
Screenshot to come

To capture: Amazing Grace with its arrangement above the slides, groups colour-coded.

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Chords and keys

  • Show chords over the words on a stage screen for the band, or on any text layer. Choose whether they’re drawn and how they look in the inspector’s Chords section, or Flow’s Chords popover for a whole song.
  • Transpose a song into another key, and the chords move with it — with a capo where one helps.
Screenshot to come

To capture: A stage screen showing lyrics with chords, transposed up a step.

Each song has a copyright box in its presentation inspector, and a Copyright switch. See Copyright and CCLI.

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Song topics

Each song can have topics — grace, communion, Easter — that the Set Builder finds songs by. They’re read from the words for you, and can be changed in the song’s inspector.