![]() ![]() You can sign up for the invitation list on .įull disclosure: I’m currently using the app for free as a beta tester.I've been a huge fan of plain text for quite some time now and I love being able to make presentations using plain text as well. I’m not sure when Deckset will be out officially, but the moment it is I’ll be the first in line to pay for my copy. More importantly, Deckset is a great tool to for me, and I’m going to test it in the field next week for a talk in Amsterdam (so it’d better work!). ![]() Why the long write up? For one, when friends build great tools it’s worth a shout out. If you just occasionally do presentations and want them to look great without using the Keynote standard templates, Deckset is great too.ĭeckset is not for… speakers who have their own custom-made templates and are very invested in their collection of Keynote slides, or who need to show videos as part of their presentations. So who is Deckset for?ĭeckset is for… anyone who regularly does presentations and likes to edit them very simply on the fly. Oh yes, Deckset also supports clickers and does PDF exports of course. Switching between themes happens on the fly, no re-rendering necessary. The Modern theme is somewhere in between: Images stay in color, but are blurred to serve as background more than as images. It’s all about image + text, so the team had to come up with some solutions on how to handle images in very different ways: Where the Poster theme leaves the images more or less as vibrant as they are and just throws large, bold-ish typeface on top, the Swiss theme pushes the images more into the background, converted into grayscale and overlaid with a single color, so it’s more focused on the type. They range from very serious/timeless (“Classic”) to one alluding to the era and style of Mad Men (“Swiss”) to quite bold (“Poster”) to playful (“Superfun”). The first preview (1.0) came with something like 4 templates of 3 color combinations each this morning’s update (1.3) brought it up to 4 templates and 4-7 color combinations each. Deckset does the rest.ĭeckset comes with a selection of templates, and you can tell that a team of (I say this as a compliment) total type nerds built it – the templates look gorgeous. It’s Markdown, so it’s pretty basic: Headers, lists, bold and italic, that kind of thing. There are constraints - lots of constraints - in what you can do in terms of layout. Editing happens straight in the text file. To give you an idea just how much of a breeze it is to work with Deckset: You write your text in very simple Markdown syntax into a text file, drop in the picture name, place the picture in the same folder as the markdown file. So for me, being able to edit really quickly and to work with some design constraints is just perfect. As someone who quite regularly, but not all-that-frequently gives presentations, I know my way around Keynote of course, but don’t have the kind of massive collection of slides (or even a cool customized template) that more frequent speakers do. (In fact, I believe I might have been user #1, but who knows.)Īnd boy, Deckset is delightful to work with. For the last few days I’ve been beta testing Deckset, a Markdown-based presentation tool for Mac built by (among others) Chris Eidhof, one of my partners in UIKonf. ![]()
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