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Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by refactor_master »

Is there a similar tool that actually addresses the “death-by-PowerPoint” paradigm where people just paste slabs of text into slides and call it a presentation? Something where I can easily insert pictures and control the order of animations, while not fiddling around too much with the layout.

Something like plantuml, but for slides?

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by doersino »

Very nice!

A while ago, I’ve built something similar on top of the in-browser Markdown-plus-diagrams renderer Markdeep: https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-slides

Aside from things like custom themes and pop-out-able presenter notes, it supports printing to PDF via the browser’s built-in print functionality – perhaps that’s something you could look into. (Maybe you have, but my phone’s browser just doesn’t like it.)

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by Hackbraten »

yesenadam wrote: post #5

Looks nice! I will recommend it to friends. I laughed when I saw the "non-evil purpose only" in the license.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not...

Thanks for the warning.

That kind of license is needlessly vague. Why would I even use such software if there’s no reliable way to tell whether I’m using it legally?

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by kissgyorgy »

This is very nice when you are willing to write basically code for your presentation, but nothing beats https://slides.com in productivity. It is the SaaS of the creator of Reveal.JS. I usually just make a monthly subscription when I need to make a new presentation, otherwise you can keep everything, just can't create new presentations. Basically "pay when you use it", very fair business model, worth every penny!

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by brumar »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #8

Now if we can just get proper mindmapping in Markdown. I've tried all the libraries I could find and while they are pretty neat they still lack linking and other things like you'd get from XMind.

I sync my .xmind with .md files using homemade python scripts. Lately I went the extra mile to produce reveal.js friendly mds. Very handy. I did not gather enough energy to open source this stuff. But this comment made me realize this pain point I have with Xmind might be more common than I thought.

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by kissgyorgy »

refactor_master wrote: post #12

Is there a similar tool that actually addresses the “death-by-PowerPoint” paradigm where people just paste slabs of text into slides and call it a presentation? Something where I can easily insert pictures and control the order of animations, while not fiddling around too much with the layout. Something like plantuml, but for slides?

Yes, https://slides.com from the creator of Reveal.JS. It's insanely productive, you can just drag and drop things, 1-click for animations and ordering and has other features I never seen with any other presentation tool. I was able to create some of my presentations in 10-20 minutes!
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