For me, slides are like art. I make slides with graphics, with weird arrows, boxes and call outs, images tiled in a particular way, and many custom things. They're more graphical than textual because slides aren't about people reading them - they're already listening to you and simultaneously listening + reading is difficult for the audience. Slides should show visual relationships of your talking points. Use graphics to show architecture, hierarchy, dependencies, etc. Use images to give context. Can it be done programmatically? Sure, if I spend 4 hours customizing my code. I'd rather fire up Powerpoint or Google Slides and roll with it. Also, I present once a quarter, I never found these automatic slide generators useful but I presume if you're presenting concise/textual information often, it can be useful.
Hi HN<p>A month ago I’ve released my very own open source project, followed by a bare-bones tool built on top of it.
I’ve listen a lot from the community and now, here a sensible update.<p>The most significant features are:<p>- not only plain-text but markdown, yaml, json and even javascript can be used to create slides!
- it’s possible to use local files and it can run offline (since it’s a pwa)
- it saves everything you do, locally
- you can share a presentation with one click
- better UX of the editor<p>Hope you find it useful and I’m open to feedback and suggestions.<p>Thanks!
I stopped using PowerPoint for presentations long back. What I use now is LaTeX with the beamer class to make classy professional looking presentations. This looks like another good alternative to try out.
I'm more of an offline-first person but I love how simple this is. If the need arises I'd consider it for sure. Looks like all my use cases are ticked off as well.<p>Quick question: is latex/mathematica/any other way to include equations possible? (excluding equation images obviously; needs to be editable)
I like the idea, and the technical implementation. I frequently need something simple and free to create slides. I think the typography in the rendered slides could be improved a bit, with some more careful attention to margins and sizes.
The left and right arrow are the same blue color as the background. Should probably add some function to make sure that if the defined color is the same or similar to that of the stuff it is on, then darken, lighten, invert or something.
figma can also be used to make slides. if you get hang of it, auto layout and controlled components make it a breeze to maintain consistency across slide.