Tales

Professional storytelling risen to the next level - achievable for everyone!

What is Tales?

Tales is invented to create browser-run presentations based on arbitrary images - easily and fast. All you need is an
image, which then serves as the central theme of your presentation. By zooming into and out of details in this image,
you tell your Story: Tales overcomes the boundedness of isolated slides and allows you to focus on connections and
details of what you think is worth telling the world! And based on the very same image your Stories can easily be
customized, e.g. to address audiences with different backgrounds or time restrictions for your presentation. Just
control the depth by which you zoom into details, but never lose the possibility to navigate at will through your Story.

Why using Tales?

Ordinary slide-based presentations normally are composed of mostly text and bullet points. Using text to communicate
information is good - but the processing depth of the brain of an image is much deeper! So, compared to ordinary slides,
presenting your Story based on an image makes it easier and more fun for your audience to follow and to not lose
focus and interest. They will be thrilled by your ideas!
As a side effect, you can directly use your Story as an offline product, by printing it e.g. on paper, t-shirts
or tissues.

Hard facts:

No need to register for a user account
Just download Tales and start working on your story - no complicated installation process is needed
Tales is free and Open Source - no hidden costs, no costly license model
Tell your Tale on your website - easily export the Tale to HTML

Talecabulary

You are the Bookbinder and the Storyteller! The image you use is the idea you want to convey, that is the
Tale you want to tell. Your Tale consists of several Sections (that replace slides), which are assembled in the
Storyline of your Tale. Chapters can further structure your Sections, making the Story more understandable.

Prerequisites

All you need is a computer running Windows, Linux or macOS – and the image with your Tale! :)
Tales supports all kinds of image formats, from simple JPEGs to sophisticated vector graphics like SVGs.

Installation

Download the latest release of Tales for your platform.
Usually only the tales-desktop-... version is needed.
Execute the downloaded file.

Taletorial

Set up your first Tale.

Create an image that tells the Tale you want to share.
Start Tales.
Enter the name of your Tale and press enter.
Choose the Tale you want to tell, that is the path to your image on your computer.
Now press Ctrl (or cmd on a Mac) and use your mouse to create your Sections.
Check your Tale in the Storyline. Drag and drop to rearrange slides or press Delete to remove a slide.
Press Tell! and tell your Tale by using the left and right arrows of your keyboard to navigate between the sections.
Press Escape to return to the editor.

A video tutorial is coming soon!

Examples

Some examples of already existing Tales:

What is Tales: A Tale about Tales
See Demo Instance on how it is built.

Contributing

Install git, make, go and nodejs
Build with make all
Start with make run
Visit http://127.0.0.1:3000 in your browser
Start hacking! 🙂

Licencse

Apache 2.0

synyx/tales