How this works
What this is
A link sheet for prepping a show — what you say between songs, in what order, hour by hour. Each "link" is one moment of talk: an opener, a traffic update, a tease into the next song.
Example
Building a sheet
Each link has a type (the short tag, e.g. OPENER), a detail (what you'll actually say or do), and optional song out / song in fields so you can see what you're talking out of and into. + add link and + add hour grow the sheet; most shows run 7–10 links an hour.
To reorder, drag a link by the ⠿ handle on its left and drop it where you want — within an hour or across hours. The running order updates instantly.
Running the show
Tick the circle on a link as you read it live — it'll grey out and strike through so you always know where you are. Hit Go ham → in the top bar to blow the whole sheet up full-screen, autocue-style, for when you're actually on air. Esc gets you back out.
The ▤ Reading button opens a focused panel on the right (top on mobile) that shows just the current link, big and clear, with Prev / Done & next buttons to walk through the show. Ticking a link in the main sheet jumps the panel to it, and vice versa.
Soundbytes
If a link plays a clip — a jingle, a vox pop, whatever — tick the Soundbyte box on that link to open a small upload panel. Attach the audio file and give it a cue label, or just leave the box ticked with no file as a flag that something needs playing out. Each attached clip has its own volume slider, and the level you set is remembered.
Clips are stored inside the show, so they travel with an export — but big clips eat into the browser's storage limit, so keep them short (under ~8MB each).
References & links
The References panel above hour 1 is for anything worth cross-checking before or during the show — competition pages, a story you're quoting, a number you read out on air. Drop in a label and a URL and it sits there for the whole show, separate from the link-by-link flow.
News ticker
The scrolling bar along the bottom pulls live headlines from BBC, Sky and GB News (toggle them via the ⚙ cog on the left of the ticker). You can paste in your own RSS feeds — any station or paper that publishes one — or type manual headlines for local stuff with no feed. The ⟳ button on the right refreshes on demand; it also auto-refreshes every 10 minutes.
Saving, exporting & PDF
Shows you save sit in this browser's local storage — there's no login, no account behind it. It's basically a cookie that lives on this one device. Clear your browser data, or open the page on a different computer, and they won't be there. The • dot on the Save button means you have unsaved changes.
To move a show between computers, or hand one to someone else, use Export .xml to download it as a file, then Import .xml on the other end. Imports come in as their own saved show (tagged imported) so they never overwrite what you're working on. In the saved list, ⧉ duplicates a show and ⬇ exports it.
Print / PDF in the top bar produces a clean printable version of the current show — handy for a paper backup in the studio.
Bits & bobs
The ☾ / ☀ button flips between dark and light. The ⚙ by the clock sets your timezone and 12/24-hour format. The « at the top of the sidebar tucks it away for more room — a » tab brings it back.