PPTPlex Features in Keynote

Hi
I stumbled upon pptplex (http://www.officelabs.com/pptplex) which adds a great feature to powerpoint which allows you to present in a non-linear format - a bit like a mindmap, with slides categorised according to type... I'm reasonably new to Keynote and wondered if some similar feature is available in Keynote?
I know in Keynote you can add slides as sub-slides which sort of keeps things grouped together, but this pptplex seems to go one step further and allows you to use left and right clicks when in presentation-mode to zoom in and out of particular sections and then sides within sections.
Thanks
Matt

Quite right - if only M$ would make it compatible with the Mac version of PPT... For those that are interested I also found www.prezi.com which is a completely different take of a giant canvas to contain the whole presentation - all online too - no software

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