sent VS remark

See also: <https://tools.suckless.org/sent/>, which is similar but has an emphasis in minimalism and the Takakashi method (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_method>)

Google Docs. If I need PowerPoint I mostly just use sent.

If you prefer something more adventurous (as in "create your own export wrapper"), you can check out sent.

I use sent: https://tools.suckless.org/sent/

I like sent. You write in a text file, each paragraph being one slide. Idk how it handles gift but it supports images. It's very simple and limited in features, but if it fits your needs then it's as simple as it gets.

This is why I love tools like Sent.

Eh there are loads of these based on Markdown that are much better. I think revealjs is the most popular, but I like remarkjs:

https://github.com/gnab/remark

There's a list of them here:

Thanks for your comment, u/legitEngin. Indeed, I do see a slew of Markdown-to-presentation plugins (this work was inspired by one at https://github.com/gnab/remark), and I hope I can inspire more instructors to consider using plain text to organize their work instead of lugging around heavy PPTs.

remarkjs github; easy guide; simple demo with default settings

One of my proudest open source contributions is also to excalidraw. It's a small tweak. Since about a year ago, chrome will re-save the .png to disk when you ctrl+s or cmd+s (with the embedded scene, and without prompting for a location). It gives you a really nice workflow for documentation and remark-style slides for presentations.

just some text, but easy to tweak/adopt/write? -> https://remarkjs.com

It's a good idea, which is why it's already been done. That's not to say you shouldn't finish it! You might improve on the idea, or it might just be a good learning experience.

I've given presentations in ReMark before, which is basically "markdown -> web slideshow" using a JS blob. Worked alright for simple presentations without complicated formatting needs, and loads all the images on the fly, so it implicitly picks up any re-generated figures. It also made it very easily to collaborate on presentations via GitHub, since the whole "presentation" was a short text file.