Teleprompter
Keep your script on screen while you record, without it appearing in the recording.
The teleprompter — Speaker Notes — is a small floating window holding your script. It sits above whatever you're demonstrating and is excluded from the capture, so you can read while recording the app behind it.
Open it from the … menu on the recording HUD.
Why it isn't in the recording
Screenify builds the exclusion list from the windows that exist when capture starts, and creates the Speaker Notes window ahead of that point — kept off screen until you actually ask for it. So the window already holds a place on the exclusion list whether or not you ever open it.
That means you can toggle the teleprompter on halfway through a take and it still won't appear in the recording.
Scrolling without leaving your app
The point of a teleprompter is that you're working in another app while reading it. Clicking the notes window to scroll would steal focus from the app you're demonstrating, and that click might land on something.
So three keys are registered system-wide for the length of the recording session:
| Keys | Does |
|---|---|
| ⌥⌘↓ | Scroll the script down |
| ⌥⌘↑ | Scroll the script up |
| ⌥⌘N | Reopen the window if you closed it |
They work while any app is focused. Each scroll moves roughly one screenful — 80% of the visible height — so you don't lose your place between presses.
These three keys exist only while a recording session is live. They are claimed when the recording HUD appears and released the moment recording ends, so they never shadow a shortcut in your other apps outside a take.
Text size
Use the + and − buttons in the window's title bar, or ⌘+ and ⌘− while the notes window itself is focused.
Set this before you start. Scrolling by screenful means the text size decides how much script you get per press, and finding that out mid-take is the wrong time.
Writing the script
The script is a plain editable text area — type into it, or paste from wherever you wrote it. It stays between sessions.
Short paragraphs with blank lines between them read far better than one unbroken block, because a screenful scroll lands cleanly on a gap instead of mid-sentence.