What's everybody using to make their talk slides these days?
I've given a number of talks, but they've been spread out enough over the years that I've never developed deep familiarity with any one tool. I've mostly used PowerPoint and Keynote.
If you use reveal.js, do you use the basic setup? Full install? Hosted version?
@ehmatthes I am using reveal.js which allows the slides to be hosted directly from GitHub. My css skills are pretty limited so the slides end up being fairly basic
@ehmatthes I think the reveal.js approach is great, but it's one more moving part and thing to waste my brain cycles on than what Deckset gives me for cheap.
Let me know how it goes. I need to dust my copy off and start rebuilding a few presentations.
@ehmatthes I use reveal.js. I used the basic setup and created a django app to organize all my slideshows. I tend to edit the css a bit to customize things a bit.
@pythonbynight Do you write your presentation as one long HTML file? That seems like such a different worfklow than everything I've used before, but I can see the reasons for it.
@ehmatthes Great question. Since this is a django app, I have a base template for the html file, and the individual "slideshows" are just the actual "content", which includes each slide as a <section> (if that makes sense).
So each "slideshow" file only has the slideshow content in it, and each <section> represents a slide, with an <aside class="notes" data-markdown> for my speaker notes.
@ehmatthes In the app, I can choose/select which "slideshow" to load and present... and creating a new one means I'm "only" creating a file with the <section> elements as noted above.
It does sound a bit like the "I'll write my own blog engine instead of writing blog posts", but you've made plenty of presentations so you're past that trap. :)
@ehmatthes@pythonbynight still working on my personal TODO app because none of the others I've tried fit my brain or workflow.. Just a little bit more work then I can actually get some work done on the things on the actual TODO list 😆
But for what it's worth, it was also my "I'm going to write my first django app and I want it to be something useful" attempt--and as such, it's been what I've been using exclusively for my talks.
I do have a version of this on github that I'm kind of embarrassed by... I'd like to refactor a lot of it, but here's the link just in case... This is not the version I use locally, but maybe I'll update in the near future:
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