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Justin Jackson

Deckset 2 - Great-looking slides from simple Markdown files in no time

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Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations. New in 2: Create your own themes.

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Justin Jackson
Hunter
I am so excited about this one! 🎉 In 2015, at a conference in Barcelona, I watched @rachelandrew effortlessly create slides for her talk in markdown. She was able to modify her presentation on the fly, adding quotes from the speakers who were before her. I asked her what she was using: "Deckset!" she replied. Since then, Deckset has been my secret weapon in preparing every single talk I've given. Writing my talks in markdown makes it easy to create my initial outline -- Deckset takes that markdown and magically turns it into beautiful slides. Now, you can edit and create your own themes for Deckset (something I've wanted for a long time). Congrats on this launch @se!
Sven Ellingen
Maker
@mijustin Thanks so much for hunting us, @mijustin, and really glad to hear how you found out about it via @rachelandrew! 🙌
Justin Jackson
Hunter
@se I feel the same way as @danielbarden in this tweet: "I cannot stress how much @decksetapp helps me to create presentations quickly. I have 2 hours to come up with a presentation for a Brown Bag session about the new tools from Xcode 8 :)"
Justin Jackson
Hunter

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.

Eytan Buchman
Powerpoint pixel pushers, meet your salvation. I've been waiting for V2 of Deckset for months. It's literally one of my favorite productivity Jedi tools, given that I write notes in markdown anyways. Deckset takes my Markdown and spits out beautiful, typography-rich presentations that put the focus on the content. Just as an example, two months ago, I was sitting with two people on my team, prepping for a company-wide meeting. I took notes and at the end magically transformed it into a presentation (complete with our company's theme) with the new beta theming. I blew their minds. @se congrats on shipping a hero-maker.
Sven Ellingen
Maker
@eytanbuchman 🙌 So glad to hear that and thanks for sharing that story!
Lelio Campanile

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!!!!!

Antonio Viggiano
Hey great idea, this seems a wonderful product specially for entrepreneurs I think it would be nice if this was a web app and not a desktop software, since people can't use it on Linux/Windows/Mobile. I also think (from the presentation video and pictures on your website) that it needs more "pre-made templates" so people can save even more time.
Sven Ellingen
Maker
@aviggiano Thanks for the feedback. Those are great points. We often times get the feedback that people appreciate the fact that it isn’t a web app because they’d be preparing their slides on the go, while travelling to a conference or in other circumstances where they’re not so sure how reliable their connection will be. Being entirely on the device does give peace of mind to some! :-) But I fully agree that having a web-based part would be great both for cross-platform availability and collaborative features. We’ll see what the future holds! ;-) Regarding more templates: Yes, 100%, we didn’t want to overshadow the launch of customization with a truckload of themes but we’ve still got something up our sleeves…
Lukas

I love the idea and execution!

Pros:

Fun, easy, modern

Cons:

Not all PPT features ... 😆

garrit schaap

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 :)

Jarnleikr Nidhogg
My time is valuable and I don't want to spend it fiddling with all sorts of settings - they are a distraction. With Deckset I get the job done super quickly, I can focus on content, and with version 2.x I can even make my own custom templates. What's not like? :-)
HongKee Moon
I have been using Deckset from May 2014. It is an amazing app for shortening presentation preparation time especially for brain storming. Actually, I was impressed by its minimalistic and simple interface & concept. I purchased it from iTunes Store. Currently, they changed the way to sell the product. However, the functionalities are stability are same as before. Thank you so much for their enthusiastic attitudes of compensating old customers like me for the previous purchased items! I personally wish long-run success of Deckset!
Jamie Lawrence
I'm looking forward to being able to gently customise my slide design… although I still think a lot of power came from _not_ being able to customise /screw up the design.
Sven Ellingen
Maker
@ideasasylum We totally hear you on this one and it’s part of the reason it took us so long to come up with a solution that still sticks to Deckset’s original promise of not having to fiddle with design controls endlessly. I think you’ll like it!
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