reveal-md VS reveal.js

Really depends on the audience/situation, but generally I would say don’t worry about transitions and appearance and focus instead on the flow of your presentation. To demo the features, just demo the features and let the software speak for itself. When I do a software demo I either eliminate slides entirely or do a really short slideshow (2 or 3 slides only) and then just jump into the software from there. I have done hundreds of software demos at this point and this is by far the best way I have found.

That said, to your actual questions I have done great presentations using Powerpoint but generally those are rare. I don’t think that Keynote is substantially different tbh so just pick what you have. I haveused them both and they seem much of a muchness. Googles presentation thing is kind of terrible because it just makes it really hard to keep a consistent set of fonts and sizes. I find it constantly just deciding to make text really small for no reason if I cut and paste.

I once had to do a round of multiple deep-dives into a complex model to a mathematical/quantitative audience. For that I used jupyter notebooks and reveal.js. This was great because if I had to field questions I could just jump straight to code, make changes, rerun and show the effect. It also meant showing beautiful code as well as equations just worked and didn’t require the sort of hideous messing around that say Powerpoint would.

I’ve used reveal-md often for internal talks and it’s been very effective with very little effort put into slide appearance - Just one css file to tweak and then write everything in markdown. https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md . It has a nice system for altering the slide ordering (you can go up/down as well as left/right) so it’s good for taking quick detours or going in-depth about a topic if you want to.

If you're interested, I recently made a [presentation](https://saforem2.github.io/l2hmc_talk_ect2021/#/) using my `username.github.io` with [reveal.js](https://revealjs.com/) and [reveal-md](https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md).

I've used reveal-md for a couple slide decks, this looks pretty handy for hosting/building.

Markdown is great, my personal favourite application is in reveal-md

I've been using this: https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md

which is only markdown on top of reveal.js, quite cool

There are a few GitHub repositories on my account where you can find some of my presentations, created with reveal.js, a framework for creating presentations using HTML and Markdown.

I did not come about trying it out yet but Reveal.js looks very interesting to me and I think I will use it once I find the time to learn it...

I think i'm not in the same ballpark but i really really liked reveal.js

it's reveal.js for those unfamiliar

https://revealjs.com/

I've not tried it myself or seen an example, but given the structure, it would seem like Reveal.js might give you the the sort of functionality you're looking for while having many other affordances one might look for in a digital and/or online zettelkasten.

As an aside, learning Reveal.js ( https://revealjs.com ) would be something for longer term growth, but if you don't know it now and you have a time limit, its not something to get into. If you do know JavaScript, HTML and want to give it a try (don't spend more than 2h without results - time boxing the "this doesn't work" is important) you could host it in a GitHub repo and point a browser at it.

Most of these use https://revealjs.com/ to create static HTML and Javascript files for display in a browser.

In the end I settled for reveal.js which as far as I remember has this notes functionality (although I never used it). It creates an html for you which I find very convenient for any presentation over internet. It has some learning curve but it's not too complicated.