SEseanhunter·Apr 28, 2025
I used to use https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md , which is a very thin layer on reveal.js.
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reveal-md
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
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What it is
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
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This looks like it's going in the same direction as Deckset (https://www.deckset.com/) and reveal-md (https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md) – neat. I love the former (just works…
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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9 sourcesReally depends on the audience/situation, but generally I would say don’t worry about transitions and appearance and focus instead on the flow of your presentation. To demo the features, just demo the features and let the software speak for itself. When I do a software demo I either eliminate slides entirely or do a really short slideshow (2 or 3 slides only) and then just jump into the software from there. I have done hundreds of software demos at this point and this is by far the best way I have found.
That said, to your actual questions I have done great presentations using Powerpoint but generally those are rare. I don’t think that Keynote is substantially different tbh so just pick what you have. I haveused them both and they seem much of a muchness. Googles presentation thing is kind of terrible because it just makes it really h
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ard to keep a consistent set of fonts and sizes. I find it constantly just deciding to make text really small for no reason if I cut and paste.
I once had to do a round of multiple deep-dives into a complex model to a mathematical/quantitative audience. For that I used jupyter notebooks and reveal.js. This was great because if I had to field questions I could just jump straight to code, make changes, rerun and show the effect. It also meant showing beautiful code as well as equations just worked and didn’t require the sort of hideous messing around that say Powerpoint would.
I’ve used reveal-md often for internal talks and it’s been very effective with very little effort put into slide appearance - Just one css file to tweak and then write everything in markdown. https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md . It has a nice system for altering the slide ordering (you can go up/down as well as left/right) so it’s good for taking quick detours or going in-depth about a topic if you want to.
reveal-md[0]
[0]: https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md
In Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?I've been using this: https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md
which is only markdown on top of reveal.js, quite cool
In A tool to create slides using Markdown easily for youI’m a big fan of reveal.js via reveal-md: https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md. Makes it very easy to quickly create good looking slides without clicking around GUIs.
In Reveal.js: HTML presentation frameworkThis looks like it's going in the same direction as Deckset (https://www.deckset.com/) and reveal-md (https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md) – neat. I love the former (just works really well for me) and would really want to like the latter (open source! no license needed, collaboration-friendly, customizable), but it makes me fight my tools just a bit to much. Part of which is intentional, of course – the point of these tools (for me) is to not get sucked into a handcrafted slides rabbit hole, because they resist me very strongly if I try, but things like autoscaling lots of text on a single slide just have to work (couldn't find a decent-looking way to do this in reveal-md without magic – works nicely in Deckset).
Yours looks like it could fill that gap (featureful yet easy to use), though (on first glance, I'll admit) it still appears to
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be kinda limited. I can't figure out how to exit presentation mode, I'd prefer to have somewhat more explicit slide boundaries (e.g. using the Markdown "---" separator), so I can have multi-line slides with paragraphs, plus I could throw my Deckset markdown slides at it and have them work with relatively minor changes. I think the mix of Markdown and HTML in the examples are a bit confusing, maybe it would be better to stick to just Markdown?
I couldn't figure out how to have an image and text side-by-side (I like to do this in Deckset to have e.g. a vertical process diagram on the left and the most important remarks/caveats on the right). Other things I personally am missing are multi-line code snippets, text on top of an image background (ideally desaturating/blurring the image for readability, Deckset does that well), and speaker tools.
What's there is really lovely, though. I love how super snappy it is, the themes look pretty good, very nice and minimal. It's mostly very straightforward to use and already has a bit of polish, which is neat at what looks like a pretty early stage. I think this looks really good and promising!
Reveal-MD: write in markdown, compile/output a good looking reveal-js HTML presentation.
Demo: https://mankash.bitbucket.io
Reveal-MD source: https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md
In Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?Reveal-Md is similar: https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md
The pitch for git pitch itself appears directed at developers, who apparently have the time and patience to write markdown code for slideshows, but don't have the patience to output html/js via something like reveal-md. The drawback is the inherent advertising of gitpitch. With reveal-md your slideshow can be uploaded as a static page(s) to your own domain, or even directly to GitHub pages.
In GitPitch – Markdown Presentations for Devs on GitHub and GitLabFor people looking for an alternative, cli centered approach, check out reveal-md.
https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md
In Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer