![]() ![]() Images will be shown full-screen by default, or as a background with a filter or blur with your text on top if in a slide that has text. Then, adding images and video is as simple as adding them in Markdown (as such: !(image_name.jpg)). There’s no graph support built-in, so you might need to reach for an app like the free OmniGraphSketcher (or even the iPad app Paper as Ben Thompson has used so nicely for charts and graphs at Stratechery) to create charts and graphs, and then add them as images to your slides. Multimedia is the tricky part, though, and yet Deckset has it covered, too. It’s a handy little addition that should leave you confident in editing your text, and is a great way to try out the various styles you’ll get with quotes, code, and more content that Deckset’s themes will use for special slides. You’ll get a tiny floating preview of your slides from Deckset as you write, and it’ll update with your changes live as you make them. If something looks wrong, or you just want to keep adding content to your presentation, click the Edit button to open the Markdown document with your presentation in your default text editor. You’ll get a preview of how each slide looks, then can click on each slide to see it fully in the window. That’s it.Īll you’re left to do is focus on the content in your presentation, and leave worrying about how the presentation looks to the app. The only setting you’ll find is one that lets you choose which text editor you want to use to edit your presentations, and an Aspect Ratio setting in the menubar. You can pick from one of 7 built-in themes in 5 different colors (click the color square under the theme to select the one you want), each with their own professional typefaces that are bundled with the app, but for now, you can’t add your own templates (though the team has announced that feature may come in the future). In iA Writer’s grand tradition of including no settings, Deckset is almost feature-free. Now, open the file in Deckset, and you’ve got a presentation. Separate each “slide” with three dashes on a new line, and add in images and video the same way you would in Markdown (e.g. Just write the text you want included in your presentation in Markdown, using headers, quotes, body text, and bullet points as you would otherwise. Give it a Markdown document, and it’ll turn it into a beautiful, ready-to-show presentation in one click, the same way Marked turns your Markdown text into printable documents. While writing in Markdown and using the tools that support it might take a bit to get used to, once you’ve switched you’ll never look at word processors the same.Īnd now, with the brand new app Deckset, the Unsigned Integer team is disrupting presentations in the same way. Then, with export tools like those built into Ulysses III or in stand-alone apps like Marked, you can turn your writing into beautiful print documents or HTML in a click. You can write in plain text in any app, from humble code editors to beautiful apps designed just for Markdown writing, using formatting that’s structured and translates equally well to the web or print. With writing, we’ve solved the problem with Markdown. That shouldn’t require a full-featured slide design app-one that actually makes it difficult to keep your presentation consistent. They’re just snippets of text and images, plus some formatting. There’s hundreds of tools and options in PowerPoint and an entire industry of books and courses on using those tools, just to help you get a single sentence looking nice on a 100” screen.Īnd yet, presentations should be simple. Deckset: Markdown Simplicity Meets Presentations | Techinch tech, simplified.ĭeckset: Markdown Simplicity Meets Presentations
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