Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations. New in 2: Create your own themes.
I've been using Deckset since I found out about in 2015. It allows you to effortlessly create presentation slides from markdown text. My secret weapon when preparing for a talk!
Pros:Magically creates presentation slides from markdown! The best way to prepare for a talk.
Cons:Not as many options as Powerpoint, but that's what makes it amazing! Deckset forces you to think about your message.
Deckset has become one of my favorite apps ever. As someone who writes almost entirely in markdown and who makes a ton of presentations, this app just makes so much sense to me, and it speeds up the creation and design process to a pretty insane degree. Can't recommend it highly enough.
Pros:Now it's both simple AND customizable! I've got so much love for this app.
Cons:The only con was that you couldn't customize styles in the first version.
I've been using Deckset for many years now and have participated in the beta for this version, and I totally love it. Thanks to Deckset I can focus on the content of my lecture and don't have to worry about the design. It just always looks good. In the new Version you can now easily change fonts and colors for better readability on this one special beamer ;).
Pros:I make all my slides with Deckset for the lectures I give at University and this software saved me priceless hours of my life!
Cons:Not for my use case :)
I'm a happy user of the paid version of Deckset. After using Keynote for more time than I can remember, I've opted for the simplicity of using markdown and having bold text rather than fine control over placement of graphical elements that Keynote will provide.
My presentations for the last 12 months have all been done either with Deckset (for the screen) or with Google Slides (for collaboration) with super simple templates. If you look at my Slideshare you can tell that wasn't always the case ;-)) https://www.slideshare.net/matte...
Pros:Simple, fast, to the point
Cons:A bit of a learning curve to place images
Great job, v2 with massive improvements, good idea to NOT include an editor (there are hundreds!), some issues with Ulysses as an editor, tend ot think is my old 2.7.2 version
Pros:Fast, easy, focus-on-content presentation design, very easy to update, improve, customize deliveries as only a markdown file needs editing
Cons:having to "migrate" many ideas/ppts/keynotes to deckset :D
I've prepared some presentations with the tool already and loved the experience
Pros:Build beautiful and minimal slides fast with Markdown
Cons:Maybe the lack of features, but which is also a good thing - being not bloated and minimal
I saw a presentation did with Deckset few months ago and found it was very clear with a nice design. When I understood that the design is doing automatically
by the software and the user has just to edit a markdown file, I was seduced. So I tried it recently and I was surprised by this brilliant software. To create a pretty presentation, we are just to edit a markdown file! That’s crazy but they have more in this version 2. We can now customize our presentation in few clicks … and share the style with other users. The wow effect is real.
Pros:Easy to use.
Faster to create.
Simple to learn.
Elegant result to show.
Cons:You must to know how markdown works ?
Have sparingly used Deckset, not for lack of love but lack of presentations. It's the best tool for a good reason: it does not let you tweak the styles (well, 2.0 does, but for me that's like a BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY). I started using v1 because of this: focus on the content, pick a theme that looks good (all look good) and present.
Only drawback I have is not being able to export my slides with animated gifs (they get exported with a fixed frame, which is good enough for emergencies): some kind of HTML exported presentation (auto-generated using some simple JS framework?) would work great for this use case.
Pros:Lets you focus on the slides and not on the design
Cons:Impossible to export in any format having animated gifs :(
fantastic and minimalistic. great for putting together slides at the last moment ;-)
Pros:simple to use, create elegant presentations, easy export function
Cons:none
I've just bought this app to prepare my presentation for Code BEAM SF and I'm amazed of how simple this makes everything.
Don't get me wrong, I really like Keynote and PowerPoint, but there are so much options and it's kind of overwhelming.
Also, one point is that if you want to draw some diagrams, there are actually better tools for the job (even better than PowerPoint or Keynote), so in the end you just have a better tool, because you can just add images you make on a drawing app or photoshop or anything.
Some improvements I'd like to see:
Headers vs Texts
The one thing I'd like to have is the option to customize the header size (I find myself changing between #, ## and ### just to change the look and feel) What I think would be a better approach is to have a consistent header lever hierarchy and then be able to customize the size in each slide. The point with that is that I can focus on content first and worry about the look and feel as the last step (adding highlights to snippets, changing some text sizes and stuff).
Also, the point is that sometimes you just want a nice big message but it's actually not a "heading", so there is some semantic inconsistencies. But tbh, this is just minor improvement.
Snippet highlight steps
Another thing that may be nice is the ability to create build steps (like the one for lists) for snippet highlight. Right now we use the [.highlight: 1, 3-5]. Maybe would be nice to add the option to do something like [.highlight: 1, 3-5; 8-9] to create two slides, the first one with 1, 3, 4 and 5 lines highlighted and the other with 8 and 9 highlighted. That would make it easy to guide people through the code.
Pros:Blazing fast. Simple. Make amazing presentation without much work.
Cons:Somewhat "limited", but that is the point.
I was using Deckset since 3 years and I'm a beta tester for this new version, and I tell you that this version is amazing! Beyond the first version's features, now you can customise your presentation, change color, fonts, etc.. only for 1 slide or 2 o 3!
I think that this application is real fantastic and everyone makes slides and use markdown MUST to try it, you will never come back!!
Pros:make slides in few time!
The presentations are are beautiful and you can insert image, video and other stuff in no time.
use markdown
Cons:You could get issue if you want an exact position for text or image.
I want iPad version!!!!!
This is my go to app to create my classes, I was looking for this for quite sometime. I tried reveal dabbled with beamer but this is much simpler for me and looks better out of the box.
You work on simple .md text files, at first this might seem backwards but the time you save by not having to go around poking in menus is amazing.
Pros:No clutter, simple, good looking
Cons:Lack of options to position images/graphics
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