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

I have been using Deckset for years and have always been super happy for using it to create slides for education and talks alike. Super stoked to see v2 launch!

What I love most is the simplicity. As a teacher I now store all my material as markdown files. And with Deckset it's really easy to transform basic markdown text to really good looking slides in minutes.

Pros:

Really fast to work with

Cons:

A bit limiting

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.

In the past I've mostly used `Keynote` and switched to deckset half a year ago.

It really reduces the time I spend on making presentations and time is what we all could have more off!

Pros:

focus on the essentials, good code-highlighting, fast creation of slides

Cons:

sometimes I missing visual layout options for graphics

I've used Decket for multiple presentations and I'm very happy with it. I recommend it to anybody who wants a simple solution without having to bother too much about formatting.

Pros:

Simple, Elegant

Cons:

Would love for it to come with an iOS app to use as a clicker.

Using Deckset for some years now when lecturing about music composition. I'm also a markdown user so it fits perfectly in my workflow and my belief that text files is the future proof way to go.

Pros:

Simplicity and beauty. Youtube integration

Cons:

No iOS app

Use it and you'll never go back to your previous presentation tool!

Pros:

It's an awesome tool! I used it in so many presentations I can't count! No other markdown based presentation tool served me better!

Cons:

Now that we have theme customization I'd say I don't see any cons to Deckset

Improvement Idea :

Toggling between documentation/examples and the editor can be tedious for beginners. An integrated editor with snippets to drop in-place would be nice for Deckset 3 :)

Pros:

Fast turnaround thanks to context sensitive live preview; helps you concentrate on contents; helps you keeping slides clean and beautiful

Cons:

None for my use cases : Short to medium sized presentations;

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 :(

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.