With an app like Deckset, you can simply open up the template files, and you’re away. It’s not code, it’s a clever markup language that translates into code. ![]() The beauty of learning Markdown is you only have to see it to know how it works. Just the same, if you’re still unsure about creating in Markdown, nothing can make this point better than a quick demonstration. This is what makes it such an ingenious app. But then, there are the more intangible gains from working with words in their raw form.Įverything written about the focus of writing in plain text applies to slide deck presentations with Deckset. The obvious gains are from time spent dealing with constantly shifting design elements, configuring and adjusting styles over and again. A small amount of time learning to write in Markdown can save you hours upon hours. If only I could reclaim all the years flushed by grappling with rich text, word processors, and bloated slide-deck programs. I was latecomer to the joys of plain text. Applications built around Markdown are some of the most simple and effective apps you will find for any purpose. In reality, the program left behind is often more complicated. Many prospective users seem concerned that plain text software will be difficult to use. It comes with pre-loaded with example based tutorials like this to get your startedĭespite the growing popularity alluded to above, there still exists a curious irony around the uptake of plain text utilities. Plain Text is Simply Plain, Text With Deckset, you create presentations in Markdown. The slide deck itself literally gets out of your way while you concentrate on the message. You create the presentations from Markdown files, in a text editor. ![]() Deckset’s neat trick, is to build polished slide decks from the raw material of your content, the text itself. If the point is communicating ideas, then eliminating friction in the design of a presentation is paramount. Then again, I’m confident that many potential users don’t yet realise they should be part of that group. I expect Deckset users will be largely self-selecting. Even if you’re a wizard with one of those apps, I’d wager you could save yourself time, and get to the point quicker if honing the words, and not tweaking transition animations. A similar user base will find in Deckset an ideal alternative to Powerpoint, or Keynote. Like most users of Word, I strongly suspect Powerpoint users are in the application by default.ĭeckset has the pedigree to follow the recent success of writing apps like Ulysses, which continue to popularise a previously niche medium. Despite efforts to trim the product, it carries the compound baggage of an ageing codebase, run through with compromise. At the same time, Powerpoint is time-consuming, confusing and frustrating. Just as Word has become synonymous with writing, and other text-based productivity, Powerpoint is the de facto byword for slide deck presentations. Everywhere there are presentations, there is Powerpoint. That figure is likely to have moved on considerably. In 2013, Microsoft estimated there were 30 million Powerpoint presentations given per day. Presentation Software or Powerpoint by default With Deckset you can get back to what you should be doing, focusing on ideas. ![]() Taking all the fuss, and fiddle out of presentation design by creating slick presentations from text files. It seems Focus has become common currency in creative software of late, but Deckset delivers it in an unexpected way. Especially if you’ve only ever used Powerpoint or Keynote. It would be a short list, but you would definitely find Deckset 2.0 there.ĭeckset is a presentation making app with an entirely different user experience. And yet, if you pressed me for a list of cool presentation tools, you wouldn’t find either of those. Keynote can standalone as an alternative to Powerpoint. Just as we have with writing apps, we have painted ourselves into a corner with presentation tools. It doesn’t help that established presentation software is mostly dated, awkward, and time-consuming. Presenting complex ideas in a clear, and simple way is as undervalued as it is difficult to master.
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