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Show HN: Create Slides with Plain Text

124 pointsby abusedmediaover 4 years ago

17 comments

dividedbyzeroover 4 years ago
This looks like it&#x27;s going in the same direction as Deckset (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deckset.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deckset.com&#x2F;</a>) and reveal-md (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webpro&#x2F;reveal-md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webpro&#x2F;reveal-md</a>) – neat. I love the former (just works really well for me) and would really want to like the latter (open source! no license needed, collaboration-friendly, customizable), but it makes me fight my tools just a bit to much. Part of which is intentional, of course – the point of these tools (for me) is to not get sucked into a handcrafted slides rabbit hole, because they resist me very strongly if I try, but things like autoscaling lots of text on a single slide just have to work (couldn&#x27;t find a decent-looking way to do this in reveal-md without magic – works nicely in Deckset).<p>Yours looks like it could fill that gap (featureful yet easy to use), though (on first glance, I&#x27;ll admit) it still appears to be kinda limited. I can&#x27;t figure out how to exit presentation mode, I&#x27;d prefer to have somewhat more explicit slide boundaries (e.g. using the Markdown &quot;---&quot; separator), so I can have multi-line slides with paragraphs, plus I could throw my Deckset markdown slides at it and have them work with relatively minor changes. I think the mix of Markdown and HTML in the examples are a bit confusing, maybe it would be better to stick to just Markdown?<p>I couldn&#x27;t figure out how to have an image and text side-by-side (I like to do this in Deckset to have e.g. a vertical process diagram on the left and the most important remarks&#x2F;caveats on the right). Other things I personally am missing are multi-line code snippets, text on top of an image background (ideally desaturating&#x2F;blurring the image for readability, Deckset does that well), and speaker tools.<p>What&#x27;s there is really lovely, though. I love how super snappy it is, the themes look pretty good, very nice and minimal. It&#x27;s mostly very straightforward to use and already has a bit of polish, which is neat at what looks like a pretty early stage. I think this looks really good and promising!
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smartmicover 4 years ago
My favorite plain text presentation tool is `sent` [1]. It is even more minimal but works surprisingly well (at least for me). Javascript-free but only for X11.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.suckless.org&#x2F;sent&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.suckless.org&#x2F;sent&#x2F;</a>
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doersinoover 4 years ago
This is really neat – it basically can&#x27;t be made any simpler, yet encourages best practices!<p>A while ago, while on the lookout for a somewhat more fully-featured web-based presentation tool than this, I ended up building something similar-ish on top of the Markdown renderer Markdeep:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;doersino&#x2F;markdeep-slides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;doersino&#x2F;markdeep-slides</a>
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abusedmediaover 4 years ago
Hi there, here my first attempt to create a tool using Presenta Lib, my open source presentation library. Any feedback very appreciated.
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thinbeigeover 4 years ago
So great and love to detail (just the subtle smooth flashing when you finished the presentation), great color scheme and the best: just the essentials and no nonsense features.
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wiradikusumaover 4 years ago
I&#x27;m using Chrome on Windows 10, every time a textual slide shows up, the text shrinks&#x2F;sharpening a bit. I feel uneasy. Is that on purpose?
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valescoover 4 years ago
Great idea! Does anyone know if something similar exists for e-learning (ie sending SCORM data at the end of the presentation)?
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dilpreetsioover 4 years ago
This looks amazing! Great work. Did you write the lib from scratch?<p>One small thing there is no way to return to edit mode from the present mode.
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motyarover 4 years ago
Another similar site <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mark.show" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mark.show</a>
edemover 4 years ago
How does this differ from remark.js?
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enriqutoover 4 years ago
Ha! I&#x27;d rather just use beamer and a single verbatim block for each frame.
jokingover 4 years ago
This and a way to automatically save the slideshow to a video is all that need.
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orliesaurusover 4 years ago
Reminds me of swipe.to (rip)! Good job and keep up the good work!
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thescribbblrover 4 years ago
The use of sudesh bhosle is shaaba shaaba
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riffraffover 4 years ago
many many years ago I used to use Rabbit[0] for presentations. It used to take a different approach, rendering whole images instead of HTML, but was quite fun to use.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rabbit-shocker.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rabbit-shocker.org&#x2F;</a>
_baxover 4 years ago
I like it!
komeover 4 years ago
wow! game changer for me.
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