Hello HN, here's an open source app I've been working on for the past few weeks.<p>I love Excalidraw[1], the virtual whiteboard (discussed recently here on HN[2]). Its UX is great - simple and intuitive - and really makes it easy for me to express my thoughts and explain complex concepts with a quick sketch. I want to use it to make slides!<p>However Excalidraw is not specifically designed for that. I used it for that many times actually, but the workflow is quite cumbersome: drawing a same-sized perimeter for each slide, adding to each slide watermarks and other common elements, exporting each slide as PNG into a powerpoint... it takes a long time!<p>So well, here's Excalideck to simplify that workflow. :)<p>It's still in early development, so it's not very polished. But you're welcome to give it a try, make some slides, and let me know how it goes!<p>[1] <a href="https://excalidraw.com" rel="nofollow">https://excalidraw.com</a>
[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109995" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109995</a>
Very cool! Even though the name suggests that Excalideck is for slide presentations, this is incredibly useful for me to organize multiple Excalidraw canvases for personal use. I often create system architecture diagrams that are separate but related. Rather than having to scroll around the infinite Excalidraw canvas or use multiple Excalidraw links (which I organize in a Google doc), now I can just flip through Excalideck slides. Small but very convenient
I like it - I am also a fan of Excaldraw.<p>I noticed some kind of error coming up in trying to export to pdf - other than that it seems to be working well.<p>I am using the following set up
```
uname -a
Linux arch-t460p 5.14.16-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue, 02 Nov 2021 22:22:59 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(base)
~ via 🅒 base
firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 94.0<p>```<p>I am not sure, but this message that pops up seems to suggest that it might not be establishing a good naming convention for the save.<p>```
application/vdn.excalideck+pdf (92.6 KB)
```<p>I will put an issue on the github project if I see it persists in the next day or two.<p>Thanks for sharing - great work! Between presentation tools like this and reveal-md we have some nice options for building out presentations.<p>Thinking about it. It would be great if it was possible to export each of the slides as independent png/svg as well. That would allow some possibilities to open up for using it with reveal-md
I like it, but is there a presentation mode? So far I found fullscreen and zen-mode, but it was still showing the slide overview.<p>It would be awesome if it would be using the JS API for presentations!
In the past I have used Excalidraw Slides [0], which is open source [1] too. Any chance you looked into this as well?<p>[0] - <a href="https://excalidraw-slides.netlify.app" rel="nofollow">https://excalidraw-slides.netlify.app</a><p>[1] - <a href="https://github.com/scastiel/excalidraw-slides" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/scastiel/excalidraw-slides</a>
Loved it.<p>Is there no way to start a slideshow? As in fullscreen slides? If there is such a control, it isn't obvious to me. If it isn't would be awesome to have it.
This is amazing! As a student I am always looking for tools to make good presentations fast. Wonderful !<p>However, I am wondering is there any way to add equations through latex of mathjx? Write now I feel that only way to include equations is via images or hand draw them.