Summarizing Tools 1e4

Meg Ormiston
4 Feb 201403:32

TLDRThis video introduces three apps for creating and summarizing content effectively. Haiku Deck, an iPad app, helps users create presentations by limiting character space, encouraging conciseness. It offers various themes and a selection of commercially licensed images. Pixie Me Plus, also for iPad, is highlighted for its ability to create visually appealing summaries with customizable backgrounds and regular updates to its image collection. Lastly, Comic Life, an app with built-in templates, is mentioned for its potential in creating engaging comic-style summaries.

Takeaways

  • 😀 Haiku Deck is an app for creating presentations on iPad, emphasizing summary and focus due to character limitations.
  • 📱 Haiku Deck offers various themes, some free and some paid, to customize presentations.
  • 🌟 Users can select from a collection of commercially licensed images to avoid copyright issues.
  • 🎨 Haiku Deck allows for image search and selection to match the presentation's theme.
  • 📝 Text can be easily moved and adjusted to fit the selected images in Haiku Deck.
  • 📚 Pixie Me Plus is another iPad app for summarizing, suitable for creating quick visual summaries with words and backgrounds.
  • 🏪 Pixie Me Plus features regularly updated collections of images, ensuring fresh content.
  • 💌 The app offers the option to create and send postcards with the chosen images.
  • 📖 Comic Life is a new app for creating comic-style presentations, with built-in templates.
  • 🎭 Comic Life's templates are designed to be easily customizable with words and pictures.
  • 📈 All three apps provide tools for summarizing and visual storytelling, with a focus on simplicity and creativity.

Q & A

  • What is Haiku Deck and what platform does it support?

    -Haiku Deck is an app for making presentations that focuses on summarization due to its character limitations. It is available for iPad users.

  • How does Haiku Deck encourage summarization in presentations?

    -Haiku Deck encourages summarization by limiting the number of characters that can be used in each slide, preventing the use of bullet points and thus promoting conciseness.

  • What are the available themes in Haiku Deck and are they all free?

    -Haiku Deck offers various themes for presentations, including free ones and some that require payment if users want to access them.

  • How does Haiku Deck handle image selection to avoid copyright issues?

    -Haiku Deck has a collection of images that users can search through. It ensures that only commercially licensed images are available to avoid copyright infringement.

  • What is the significance of the star icon next to the camera in Haiku Deck?

    -The star icon next to the camera in Haiku Deck signifies that the app uses only commercial images, ensuring users do not violate copyright laws.

  • How does Pixie Me Plus differ from Haiku Deck in terms of functionality?

    -Pixie Me Plus is an app for summarizing content, allowing users to put in words and select a background. It is designed for the iPhone, unlike Haiku Deck which is for the iPad.

  • What is the cost of Pixie Me Plus and what does it offer?

    -Pixie Me Plus is priced at 1.99 and is great for summarizing. It offers a collection of images that are updated at least a couple of times a week.

  • What is the purpose of the Comic Life app mentioned in the transcript?

    -The Comic Life app is designed for creating comic-style presentations with built-in templates where users can fill in words and pictures.

  • What is the Comic Life app's approach to template customization?

    -The Comic Life app provides a variety of built-in templates that users can customize by filling in different elements such as words and pictures.

  • How often are the collections in Pixie Me Plus updated?

    -The collections in Pixie Me Plus are updated at least a couple of times a week, ensuring fresh and interesting pictures for users.

  • What additional service does Pixie Me Plus offer related to its images?

    -Pixie Me Plus offers an additional service where users can have a postcard printed and sent out with the picture they choose from the app's collection.

Outlines

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📲 Presentation Apps: Haiku Deck & Pixie Me Plus

The script introduces two iPad apps designed for creating presentations and summarizing content. Haiku Deck is highlighted for its ability to create visually appealing presentations with a focus on conciseness due to character limitations. It offers various themes, including free options, and a collection of commercially licensed images to avoid copyright issues. Users can search for images and integrate them into their presentations. Pixie Me Plus is another app mentioned for summarizing, allowing users to add text over a selected background from regularly updated collections. The app also has a feature to print and send postcards with chosen images. Comic Life, while not detailed, is mentioned as a new app the speaker has downloaded, suggesting it offers built-in templates for creating comic-style presentations.

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Keywords

💡Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck is an application designed for iPad that facilitates the creation of visually appealing presentations. It encourages users to focus on summarization due to the character limitations imposed on the content. This app is integral to the video's theme as it showcases a tool that helps in concise communication, as evidenced by the script's mention of its character restrictions and the process of selecting themes and images.

💡Presentation

A presentation in this context refers to a visual display of information, often used in business or educational settings to convey ideas or data. The video emphasizes the importance of presentations in summarizing information, with Haiku Deck being highlighted as a tool to create such presentations effectively.

💡Character Limit

The character limit is a restriction on the number of characters that can be used in a given space, such as in a Haiku Deck slide. This concept is central to the video's discussion on summarization, as it forces users to distill their message to its most essential points, as illustrated by the script's reference to the limited space for text in Haiku Deck.

💡Themes

In the context of the video, themes refer to the various design templates available within the Haiku Deck app. These themes are significant as they provide a visual framework for the presentations, influencing how information is summarized and presented to an audience.

💡Commercial Images

Commercial images are photographs or illustrations that can be used for business purposes without violating copyright laws. The script mentions the importance of using such images in presentations to avoid legal issues, highlighting the app's feature that ensures images are commercially licensed.

💡Pixie Me Plus

Pixie Me Plus is an iPad application mentioned in the script for summarizing content through the creation of visually engaging images with text overlays. It is another tool that supports the video's theme of condensing information into a summarized format, as demonstrated by the app's ability to combine words and backgrounds.

💡Collections

Collections in the video script refer to the groupings of images or backgrounds available within the Pixie Me Plus app. These collections are updated regularly to provide fresh and interesting visuals for summarizing content, as noted by the mention of frequent updates in the script.

💡Comic Life

Comic Life is an app introduced in the script for creating comic-style presentations or stories. It is relevant to the video's theme of summarization as it offers a unique way to condense narratives into a visual format with built-in templates, as described in the script.

💡Templates

Templates in this context are pre-designed layouts or frameworks that can be used to structure presentations or visual content. The script discusses the use of templates in Comic Life to quickly start creating summarized visual narratives, emphasizing their role in efficient content creation.

💡Postcard

The term postcard in the script refers to a physical mail item that can be created and sent using the Pixie Me Plus app. It is an example of how the summarized content can be materialized and shared beyond the digital medium, as mentioned in the script's discussion of the app's postcard feature.

Highlights

Haiku Deck is an app for iPad that helps you create beautiful presentations with a focus on summarization due to character limitations.

Haiku Deck encourages conciseness as there's a limit to the amount of text and no option for bullet points.

The app offers different themes, some free and some paid, for customizing presentations.

Users can select from a collection of commercially licensed images to avoid copyright issues.

Haiku Deck allows for easy image search and selection to match the presentation's theme.

Text placement in Haiku Deck is intuitive, adjusting to the selected image for a cohesive look.

Pixie Me Plus is another iPad app for summarizing, allowing users to overlay text on images.

Pixie Me Plus offers a variety of backgrounds and frequent updates to its image collection.

The app provides an option to create and send postcards featuring the user's chosen image.

Pixie Me Plus is priced at $1.99, making it an affordable summarizing tool.

Comic Life is an app with built-in templates for creating comic-style presentations.

Templates in Comic Life are customizable, allowing users to add their own words and pictures.

Comic Life offers a variety of templates, including typical comic book styles.

The app is user-friendly, with an interface that makes it easy to fill in different elements of the template.

Haiku Deck, Pixie Me Plus, and Comic Life are all tools that can help users create summarized and visually appealing presentations.