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Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

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I love that "offline-ready" is a feature that's becoming more and more supported and prominent. I don't know anyone else in the power user community who doesn't have home internet, but since getting rid of ours, I've made that feature a high priority of all apps I've been dreaming up and selling.

I've even gone so far as to remove the concept of "live data sync" from all my apps, partially because it's so incredibly error prone and hard to get right, partially because it tends to make software seem laggy and slow since it shows stale data while loading live data in the background, and partially because usually it's unneeded as a built-in feature if you're just using files, which can then be synced with any of the many file syncing service (iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box).

Although it's very doubtful other power users will adopt internet-less lives, if more of us did, not only would we be more productive, but we'd all have more incentive to make "offline-ready" a much better experience and even move to "offline-first" like I aim to.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#62

why use this over marp? https://yhatt.github.io/marp/

marp looks great, but I just tried to use it and the $size directive does nothing, there are no docs on how to write themes (which is the first thing I want to do, customize the layout) and generally looks underdocumented.

It's too bad, because these tools are fantastically useful, but it doesn't look like any one managed to gather enough adoption to get critical mass around it.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#63
I'm definitely going to look into that one. As a blind user who needs to do presentations sometimes, I hate wysiwyg and I always use text-based tools. My favorite is Spectacle [1], as it apparently looks pretty good and I can upload presentations to now with a nice, simple, memorable URL. It's amazing when you can just open up a browser, point it to an URL you remember and the presentation just opens.

[1] https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

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post #53
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe important/interesting for you: the pdf export.

pandoc can do pdfs too (via beamer)

Yes, but markdeck uses decktape and chrome headless... so your PDF is in fact a near pixel-perfect version of your HTML slides.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

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post #58

How does it ASCII to sketch work? (I am particularly interested in this "sketchy" example.)

It is based on another tool I have written, a2sketch[0]: that uses asciitosvg (still the php-variant[1]), generates a svg and feeds that into rough.js[2] (converts svg in sketchy svg)

[0]: https://github.com/arnehilmann/a2sketch

[1]: https://github.com/dhobsd/asciitosvg

[2]: https://github.com/pshihn/rough

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#66

I love that "offline-ready" is a feature that's becoming more and more supported and prominent. I don't know anyone else in the power user community who doesn't have home internet, but since getting rid of ours, I've made that feature a high priority of all apps I've been dreaming up and selling. I've even gone so far as to remove the concept of "live data sync" from all my apps, partially because it's so incredibly…

This prompted me to wonder when online ready became offline ready.

Your attitude is mildly depressing, not because its wrong, just that it's coming from a place where 'offline' is niche.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

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The title says collaborative, but the about says: "easy to collaborate-n-reuse: text-only, so bring your own VCS" If it requires a VCS isn't everything collaborative?

Merging text-based markup is a lot easier than e.g. PowerPoint files.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#69
post #67

The title says collaborative, but the about says: "easy to collaborate-n-reuse: text-only, so bring your own VCS" If it requires a VCS isn't everything collaborative?

It does not _require_ a VCS, but you can bring/use your own quite easily. Why? because most of the slide sources are in text format, so working with them under version control is easy compared to the big binary blobs known from powerpoint/pages/...

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#70

This looks cool. Looking forward to give it a try. For years I've been using Deckset[0] for all my presentations. Being able to just edit a text file to write and update slides is a massive advantage. I usually export them as pdf, which 99% of conferences are happy with. A big bonus is that you can now version control your slides, allow them to get forked, etc. If you're curious to see what those slides look like, ch…

I love Deckset-- using it is like having presentation creation superpowers. But since it's OSX-only, I've moved to GitPitch, which is cross-platform and has the added benefit of hosting the slides. https://gitpitch.com/

I had to use gitpitch for one presentation only, so correct me if I am wrong, but with gitpitch you cannot see the resulting slides before you push them to the repo, right?

We had more than 200 commits at the end of one day, 150 of them to solve minor layout problems... with a (feeled) round-trip-time of 10-20seconds, that became frustrating quite fast...

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