md2googleslides
Productivity
presentation generator
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
9 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Idea: 9 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast to write slides in Markdown versus a GUI
From 1 comment
Not always. Having done this a fair bit, I've often found that if I have a somewhat minimal template (perhaps haven't gotten to the design stage of a talk and I'm just fleshing…
thenomad on HN
Version control friendly for slides
From 1 comment
Simplest answer for me would be the ability to use effective version control for slides.
mzl on HN
Objections
Bullet-point slides are an anti-pattern
From 1 comment
Slides with bullets are an anti-pattern. Markdown encourages that. Thus, Powerpoint > Markdown.
qznc on HN
Text-based editing is the wrong interface for visually appealing slides
From 1 comment
I don't get it. Markdown is text markup language. Slides shouldn't have much text (best: none), but should be visually appealing. I don't think a text editor is the right…
macco on HN
Requests
Support for adding speaker notes
From 1 comment
This is pretty neat! I've been thinking of having a goal of writing one article + presentation every month, and this is the perfect workflow to accomplish both - write the…
everlost on HN
Theme or background color selection
From 2 comments
Wow this is exactly what i've been looking for, can you select slide themes with this library?
Cub3 on HNI love this! I didn't know I needed this until I saw it. It was a breeze to set up and be up and running. One small question: does anyone know how to add a color background to a…
m3andros on HN
Questions
Can slide themes be selected?
From 1 comment
Wow this is exactly what i've been looking for, can you select slide themes with this library?
Cub3 on HN
How to add a color background to a slide?
From 1 comment
I love this! I didn't know I needed this until I saw it. It was a breeze to set up and be up and running. One small question: does anyone know how to add a color background to a…
m3andros on HN
Alternatives named
mdp, patat, Marp, Deckset, org-reveal, remark.js, Pandoc with Beamer
From 7 comments
When this comes up, I always feel obligated to share my favorite Markdown presentation tool, the command-line mdp: https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
nkantar on HNI'd also like to share patat [0], a Pandoc-based presentation tool written in Haskell. One of the nice things about patat using Pandoc is that the input file format can be any of…
aban on HNThis looks great! Textual interfaces to presentations are an absolute pleasure to use. The one i've been using for a while now is Marp [0]. Found it to be fast, straightforward…
skun on HNAlong those lines there's also Deckset [0], which is focused on turning "boring" markdown notes to visually appealing presentations. I've used it once or twice and really like…
derwildemomo on HNEmacs users may also want to check out org-reveal[1], which enables export from org-mode to reveal.js presentations with 0 hassle. [1] https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal
dangom on HNCheck out remarkjs: https://github.com/gnab/remark I like to toggle to presenter mode in this presentation by pressing the 'p' key. This reveals the presenter's notes and a time…
Dowwie on HNPandoc? http://pandoc.org/
jstrieb on HN