Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer

Otherwise, this application is simple and to the point for making quick slide sets. I wonder if someone will invest the time to make a Go-lang style slide theme.

It doesn't ship it's own editor, because everyone already has a favorite(for me that's formerly vim, now Emacs). It's only static files, so it doesn't need a server or pre-compilation. It's extensible, has syntax highlighting and produces PDFs for the students. Also, it's only a mash up of great existing libraries, so it needs no maintainance and further development. One of the few pieces of software that I wrote which are feature complete^^

A couple friends(also lecturers) and I have been using it for about five years now.

I used to think text was the future for making slides, but then I realized I cared too much about exactly how my slide looked, and a WYSIWYG saves a ton of time if you want that level of control.

I've been working for a bit on a project for converting mind maps into slides. One feature I really liked was changing the level of depth of items.

Let me try to explain what I mean. Say you're brainstorming and create a tree/toc of your slides. Then you start filling in the items for each slide. While you're doing so, you realize that slideA requires more details, so you turn the slide into a section and it's items into slides. Similarly, another section with multiple slides becomes less important, so you turn that section into a slide slideB and its slides into items of slideB.

The reason I like mind maps/trees is that these operations can be easily done by changing the level of depth of the items, e.g. via drag & drop.

I really like this idea of a simple markup for creating slides (plus the fact that it's text, so easy to version), and if this feature of making easy to change the level of depth of items could be integrated I think this would be a super plus!