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.
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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Deckset is completely text-based, so you don't lose time trying out all kinds of useless animations or distracting lay-outs. That also makes it very fast: keep on typing and you're creating slide after slide after slide. Oh, and the service is as wonderful as the app itself.
Pros:Lets you focus on WHAT you want to say—and say it in the most powerful way.
Cons:Using Deckset is easy, but not that easy that you can use it mindlessly. You have to keep thinking—but that's also a pro, really.
Improved my speed in producing slide decks and the results were "clean and clear". Removed much of the "visual clutter" that it is easy to "achieve" when using presentation tools.
Pros:Extremely easy to use Based upon Markdown Produces great slide decks Increases productivity
Cons:Doesn't have the transitions or effects that something like Powerpoint or Keynote has - but that is not the point.
I’m a teacher, and I’ve been making presentations for my classes for about two and a half years now. I’ve always felt like Powerpoint was a messy tool for the job. My ideas would inevitably get jumbled as I messed around with the design of the slides before I was finished writing them. A presentation should be logical and straightforward, but with PowerPoint I never felt like I had the ability to *make* the presentation in a logical and straightforward way. Then I found Deckset. With Deckset, not only can you write your slides without worrying about the design; you don’t ever have to worry about the design at all, beyond choosing a theme and deciding what heading style should accompany each line of text. No more resizing text boxes or moving around photos. Instead, you can just focus on the content. Sure, your design options are more limited than with PowerPoint, and in some ways I wish Deckset had more flexibility with slide layout, but their design options get the job done. In fact, it’s made me think that often too much emphasis goes into slide design instead of making the rest of your presentation good. (Just look at the bare-bones simplicity of the slides that accompany an Apple keynote. They don’t even use bullet points). At the end of the day, when I’m making a presentation, I’m going to choose Deckset over PowerPoint 9 times out of 10, because not only does it let me make presentations much quicker, it lets me make them without all the crap that usually accompanies that process.
Pros:Focus on the text while making your slides, not the design. Dead simple to use. Much quicker than PowerPoint.
Cons:Limited slide layout options.
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 basically started looking for something like this after getting frustrated with waiting for Powerpoint to open. Most of the other alternatives have ridiculous monthly subscriptions. I just don't see paying a monthly subscription, unless I'm doing Powerpoints every week.
Pros:-simple and affordable - focus more on content and less on design.
Cons:- could provide more themes and a few more tweaks on the design - PP export would be cool