by mrbluecoat on 5/29/24, 1:23 PM
I worry this model could lead to a "wall of text" rather than forcing the presenter to be concise, speak to the concepts, and rely more heavily on images. The format is good for academic lecture scenarios but I'd probably just use Jupyter, as noted by others.
by donalhunt on 5/29/24, 11:08 AM
This immediately reminded me of the "infinite" blackboards we had in some university lecture theatres such that you could just revolve the board surface and keep claiming new writing space (you could also write at a consistent level - no bending / stretching).
Something like this: https://www.ragandbonebristol.com/curiosities-1/vintage-wils...
by ebalit on 5/29/24, 1:27 PM
Very cool! It reminds me of Prezi!
https://prezi.comI did an old experiment on a scrollable whiteboard with replay that I built after watching a khan academy style video and wanting to scroll to back to a formula without pausing the audio. This makes me want to dig it back ^^
by 8organicbits on 5/29/24, 2:40 PM
The markdown to presentation approach is great. You can manage your slide (or slips) as code giving you history, offline collaboration, pull requests, etc. I don't think you can do that with most other presentation tools. I've used Marp [1] for traditional slides, and wrote a GitHub template repo that outputs the Marp HTML to GitHub Pages [2]. Similar workflows should be possible for Slipshow.
[1] https://marp.app/
[2] https://github.com/ralexander-phi/marp-to-pages
by ghaff on 5/29/24, 2:35 PM
I like it. Slides are the right approach for a lot of things but writing on blackboards and overheads had their own benefits that just scrolling a document doesn't really replicate.
As others have noted, you probably need to be cautious about just creating a wall of text but I can definitely see its uses.
by h1fra on 5/29/24, 1:50 PM
Nice!
> When using traditional slides, you are given a rectangle of white space to express your thought. When this rectangle is full, you have no other choice than erasing everything, and start again with a new white rectangle.
It's not entirely solving the issue though because you are animating everything all the time, you barely have much time to see the content
by croes on 5/30/24, 4:31 PM
>> When using traditional slides, you are given a rectangle of white space to express your thought. When this rectangle is full, you have no other choice than erasing everything, and start again with a new white rectangle.
But if you scroll to far you have the same result and if you scroll less you may just use a slide where just move the bottom content to the top and add new content at the bottom.
I myself often still remember the position of the content even if I can't remember the content itself.
So I can skip through the slides and only watch certain parts of it without the need to read everything.
That would be harder with that approach.
by ljouhet on 5/29/24, 3:50 PM
by vzaliva on 5/29/24, 5:25 PM
I think it's a very nice concept, but sometimes when you present, you have to use other people's computers, and I am wondering if it's possible to generate a PDF from this and use it for presentations?
My second thought is that something like this could be made as a LaTeX package, similar to Beamer. For scientists, there are many benefits to using LaTeX for presentations.
by SigmundurM on 5/29/24, 1:20 PM
by klysm on 5/29/24, 2:46 PM
Great idea! I think this is a really great way to handle especially mathematical expositions.
by Shorel on 5/29/24, 2:17 PM
Reminds me of Prezi, a lot more than it reminds me of Jupyter notebooks.
However, as someone who prefers to create PDF slides using LaTeX instead of PowerPoint, I completely prefer a scriptable tool instead of a web-based tool.
by epiccoleman on 5/29/24, 1:58 PM
This is a cool idea! A few years ago I did a (short) presentation out of a Notion doc for some radio-related prototyping and the format was a hit - scrolling works really well for certain topics.
by mariocesar on 5/29/24, 4:29 PM
Nice! I do something similar with Dropbox Paper in presentation mode and also with Jupyter notebooks with the presentation feature. Of course, without all the extra nice features this has.
by esafak on 5/29/24, 6:19 PM
One problem with this format is that it sacrifices referrability. But I commend you for rethinking the existing format.
by noitpmeder on 5/30/24, 2:24 AM
Very interesting project! Wonder why the author chose to write much of the internals in OCaml.
by rvba on 5/29/24, 4:51 PM
Couldnt the same be done in powerpoint?
If you send it to someone to read it later, do they have to wait for all the animations to load? That sounds frustrating.
by thomasfromcdnjs on 5/30/24, 1:43 AM
I love it!
by alabhyajindal on 5/29/24, 3:41 PM
Amazing! Excited to try it out!
by jaysonelliot on 5/29/24, 12:50 PM
What would be the advantages of using Slipshow for a presentation over Miro or FigJam?