![]() ![]() IMAGES DECKSET CODEIt has built-in syntax highlighting for code snippets.It’s based on a single Markdown document, and I love Markdown.Then I remembered Deckset, which I’d tried a few years back, and it looked just the ticket! It has two really nice features: My current workplace uses Microsoft products, but PowerPoint is almost laughably unusable. DecksetĪbout a month or so ago and I started to get really disgruntled with Google Slides again and felt motivated to try something else. Then a funny thing happened: I started to forget about about Keynote. Every presentation I gave was remote, so Keynote’s one big failing meant I continued with Google Slides. Where there was an HDMI cable handy, I’d continue to reach for good old Keynote, but that came to an end when COVID-19 struck and working from home became the norm. I sometimes find myself with the same slide deck open in multiple browser tabs, as I lose them among the millions of tabs I have open.Because it’s browser-based, the keyboard shortcut for zooming zooms the whole view ditto for pinch/spread gestures to zoom in on slide itself, there’s a Google Slides specific keyboard shortcut (or a hard-to-use toolbar button).Scrolling down/up with the mouse/trackpad moves to the next/previous slide, which often happens unexpectedly when moving around zoomed-in slide.When I go to duplicate a deck it takes me a minute to realise Google call it ‘Make a copy’.I have to look carefully through the menu every time I went to export a slide deck as exporting is called ‘Download’.The slide decks live in Google’s cloud, so the ‘files’ not easy to move around (from one Google account to another, to my local machine, etc.).It doesn’t allow you to indent the slide overview strip to indicate the document’s outline. ![]() Doesn’t let you embed vector images just raster.All of my Apple-style emojis were converted to Google’s goofy looking emoji style by the Chromebox.Local fonts aren’t allowed, meaning everything tends to be set in Open Sans or Roboto.Templating is almost impossible to manage so every slide looks slightly (or sometimes wildly) different.But there are other places where it’s really lacking: There were also a lot of collaborative slide decks, and I have to say Google Slides excels at this. Google was the obvious choice as the government department I was working in was very Google-centric. I don’t generally lean that heavily on presenter notes, but I do have the odd prompt in there to make sure I don’t forget mention something important. Choose another tool for my presentations.Share (and view) my Keynote slides only, sacrificing presenter notes.Keynote didn’t allow you to present your slides in one window and view presenter notes in another, so when presenting remotely meant I would have to: The department was made up of people all over the UK, so most presentations were made using Google Hangouts/Meet via a Chromebox this meant screen sharing from my laptop’s screen. That began to change when I started working in UK government. Whenever I would give a presentation, my slide decks would be in Keynote and I’d plug into a monitor or projector. My presentations used to almost always involve an HDMI cable. ![]()
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