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Create beautiful presentations from Markdown
Justin Jackson
Deckset 2 — Great-looking slides from simple Markdown files in no time
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Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations. New in 2: Create your own themes.

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Justin Jackson
I am so excited about this one! 🎉 In 2015, at a conference in Barcelona, I watched @rachelandrew effortlessly create slides for her talk in markdown. She was able to modify her presentation on the fly, adding quotes from the speakers who were before her. I asked her what she was using: "Deckset!" she replied. Since then, Deckset has been my secret weapon in preparing every single talk I've given. Writing my talks in markdown makes it easy to create my initial outline -- Deckset takes that markdown and magically turns it into beautiful slides. Now, you can edit and create your own themes for Deckset (something I've wanted for a long time). Congrats on this launch @se!
Sven Ellingen
@mijustin Thanks so much for hunting us, @mijustin, and really glad to hear how you found out about it via @rachelandrew! 🙌
Justin Jackson
@se I feel the same way as @danielbarden in this tweet: "I cannot stress how much @decksetapp helps me to create presentations quickly. I have 2 hours to come up with a presentation for a Brown Bag session about the new tools from Xcode 8 :)"
Jamie Lawrence
I'm looking forward to being able to gently customise my slide design… although I still think a lot of power came from _not_ being able to customise /screw up the design.
Sven Ellingen
@ideasasylum We totally hear you on this one and it’s part of the reason it took us so long to come up with a solution that still sticks to Deckset’s original promise of not having to fiddle with design controls endlessly. I think you’ll like it!
Philipp Moehring

I’ve used Deckset for 3 or 4 years and it is my single most loved software product.

Pros:

Super fast amazing looking presentations. 100% wow factor over Keypoint and Powernote.

Cons:

Need to design complex charts and tables outside the app and include screenshots.

Eytan Buchman
Powerpoint pixel pushers, meet your salvation. I've been waiting for V2 of Deckset for months. It's literally one of my favorite productivity Jedi tools, given that I write notes in markdown anyways. Deckset takes my Markdown and spits out beautiful, typography-rich presentations that put the focus on the content. Just as an example, two months ago, I was sitting with two people on my team, prepping for a company-wide meeting. I took notes and at the end magically transformed it into a presentation (complete with our company's theme) with the new beta theming. I blew their minds. @se congrats on shipping a hero-maker.
Sven Ellingen
@eytanbuchman 🙌 So glad to hear that and thanks for sharing that story!
Matteo Cassese

I'm a happy user of the paid version of Deckset. After using Keynote for more time than I can remember, I've opted for the simplicity of using markdown and having bold text rather than fine control over placement of graphical elements that Keynote will provide.

My presentations for the last 12 months have all been done either with Deckset (for the screen) or with Google Slides (for collaboration) with super simple templates. If you look at my Slideshare you can tell that wasn't always the case ;-)) https://www.slideshare.net/matte...

Pros:

Simple, fast, to the point

Cons:

A bit of a learning curve to place images

Wilson Almeida

This is my go to app to create my classes, I was looking for this for quite sometime. I tried reveal dabbled with beamer but this is much simpler for me and looks better out of the box.

You work on simple .md text files, at first this might seem backwards but the time you save by not having to go around poking in menus is amazing.

Pros:

No clutter, simple, good looking

Cons:

Lack of options to position images/graphics

Lukas

I love the idea and execution!

Pros:

Fun, easy, modern

Cons:

Not all PPT features ... 😆

Ashish Dasnurkar

fantastic and minimalistic. great for putting together slides at the last moment ;-)

Pros:

simple to use, create elegant presentations, easy export function

Cons:

none

Esben Hardenberg
I have been using Deckset for years and have always been super happy for using it to create slides for education and talks alike. Super stoked to see v2 launch!
Sven Ellingen
@esbenhardenberg Thanks, really glad to hear that! 🙌
Thameera‏ Senanayaka

I've prepared some presentations with the tool already and loved the experience

Pros:

Build beautiful and minimal slides fast with Markdown

Cons:

Maybe the lack of features, but which is also a good thing - being not bloated and minimal

garrit schaap

I've been using Deckset for many years now and have participated in the beta for this version, and I totally love it. Thanks to Deckset I can focus on the content of my lecture and don't have to worry about the design. It just always looks good. In the new Version you can now easily change fonts and colors for better readability on this one special beamer ;).

Pros:

I make all my slides with Deckset for the lectures I give at University and this software saved me priceless hours of my life!

Cons:

Not for my use case :)

Adam Borek

It's great for presentation where the knowledge, content you want to share is important mostly. Deckset makes it easy to focus WHAT you want to share and don't distract by details of making something pixel-perfect.

I think it's very good for developers.

PS version 2 gives a possibility to customise a templates a bit which is very useful to create presentation with a company brand colors/fonts

Pros:

Making a presentation quickly

Cons:

not as powerful as keynote/powerpoint (but it doesn't mean to be)

Konrad Feiler

In the past I've mostly used `Keynote` and switched to deckset half a year ago.

It really reduces the time I spend on making presentations and time is what we all could have more off!

Pros:

focus on the essentials, good code-highlighting, fast creation of slides

Cons:

sometimes I missing visual layout options for graphics

Fred Terenas

Great job, v2 with massive improvements, good idea to NOT include an editor (there are hundreds!), some issues with Ulysses as an editor, tend ot think is my old 2.7.2 version

Pros:

Fast, easy, focus-on-content presentation design, very easy to update, improve, customize deliveries as only a markdown file needs editing

Cons:

having to "migrate" many ideas/ppts/keynotes to deckset :D

Lelio Campanile

I was using Deckset since 3 years and I'm a beta tester for this new version, and I tell you that this version is amazing! Beyond the first version's features, now you can customise your presentation, change color, fonts, etc.. only for 1 slide or 2 o 3!

I think that this application is real fantastic and everyone makes slides and use markdown MUST to try it, you will never come back!!

Pros:

make slides in few time!

The presentations are are beautiful and you can insert image, video and other stuff in no time.

use markdown

Cons:

You could get issue if you want an exact position for text or image.

I want iPad version!!!!!

Jonathan Piron
Just amazing! Clean, easy to use, allows to focus on content while still having the ability to customize the design. Endless tweaking on PowerPoint and co? Just forget... Write in plain text, and format with Deckset!
Antonio Viggiano
Hey great idea, this seems a wonderful product specially for entrepreneurs I think it would be nice if this was a web app and not a desktop software, since people can't use it on Linux/Windows/Mobile. I also think (from the presentation video and pictures on your website) that it needs more "pre-made templates" so people can save even more time.
Sven Ellingen
@aviggiano Thanks for the feedback. Those are great points. We often times get the feedback that people appreciate the fact that it isn’t a web app because they’d be preparing their slides on the go, while travelling to a conference or in other circumstances where they’re not so sure how reliable their connection will be. Being entirely on the device does give peace of mind to some! :-) But I fully agree that having a web-based part would be great both for cross-platform availability and collaborative features. We’ll see what the future holds! ;-) Regarding more templates: Yes, 100%, we didn’t want to overshadow the launch of customization with a truckload of themes but we’ve still got something up our sleeves…
Rob Hardy

Deckset has become one of my favorite apps ever. As someone who writes almost entirely in markdown and who makes a ton of presentations, this app just makes so much sense to me, and it speeds up the creation and design process to a pretty insane degree. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Pros:

Now it's both simple AND customizable! I've got so much love for this app.

Cons:

The only con was that you couldn't customize styles in the first version.

Benjamin Durth

Improvement Idea :

Toggling between documentation/examples and the editor can be tedious for beginners. An integrated editor with snippets to drop in-place would be nice for Deckset 3 :)

Pros:

Fast turnaround thanks to context sensitive live preview; helps you concentrate on contents; helps you keeping slides clean and beautiful

Cons:

None for my use cases : Short to medium sized presentations;

Justin Jackson

I've been using Deckset since I found out about in 2015. It allows you to effortlessly create presentation slides from markdown text. My secret weapon when preparing for a talk!

Pros:

Magically creates presentation slides from markdown! The best way to prepare for a talk.

Cons:

Not as many options as Powerpoint, but that's what makes it amazing! Deckset forces you to think about your message.