slides VS mdp

Combination of: - http://maaslalani.com/slides/ - for slides - figlet/toilet/cowsay/lolcat - for generating titles and ascii art - https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow - for charts and diagrams

For those that are curious, I was using the `slides` CLI app to render the presentation via markdown https://github.com/maaslalani/slides

This is pretty neat!

I have playing around with using slides^1 before for doing small demos with my team, but I find that outside of highly technical geeks most people don't want to look at presentations in plain text in a terminal window. I like that this lets you create more graphical slides still using markdown + your favorite editor.

[1]: https://maaslalani.com/slides/

Most of the notes about the language are in an interactive readme with runnable code samples. It can be ran in 2 ways: - using nvim to evaluate code snippets inline using neovim with the mdeval plugin. Using FeMaco creates an editing floating window with rust-tools LSP attached and Treesitter attached. - using slides, an interactive terminal presentation tool

For presentations definitely check out another project of mine: https://github.com/maaslalani/slides

You could also use a presentation type tool (like tpp or slides) to practice around with?

https://github.com/maaslalani/slides came close but it only accepts one file, and the slides are split by --- inside of that file

It depends on what you are presenting. I found [mdp](https://github.com/visit1985/mdp) to be very useful when presenting a tech talk. It is easy to copy and paste from the source material, it can be done all via the terminal, and it views well as a README on github.

Here is an example of a presentation I gave:

https://github.com/veganjay/prefectdemo/blob/main/presentati...

It is absolutely possible. Use Lynx for web browsing, use TMUX for split screen, use BC for calculator, use KHAL for calendar and of course use RTV for Reddit. :-) Here is a great list of CLI apps: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps Here are some of my favorites though: - https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior - https://github.com/IonicaBizau/idea - https://github.com/jeffkowalski/geeknote - https://github.com/insanum/sncli - https://github.com/visit1985/mdp - https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape - https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli - https://github.com/pimutils/khal - https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ - https://github.com/zquestz/s - https://github.com/yudai/gotty - https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer - https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in - https://github.com/schachmat/wego - https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

> I recently found out about mdp too, a way to display markdown in the terminal as slides.

> https://github.com/visit1985/mdp

I use pandoc to convert markdown to powerpoint decks, it's a great workflow as you can preview and tweak the content and then apply the firm theme before the presentation.

If all you need is text on your slides, then mdp could be fun! I used it during an interview a while back.

Hmmm.. interesting. I used mdp a few times - perhaps I should give this one a whirl.

Have you ever heard of terminal based presentations with mdp?