diff --git a/assets/bad_slide.png b/assets/bad_slide.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ac347e --- /dev/null +++ b/assets/bad_slide.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:b5d9cb5fbcbfda70c380d25bf3b45d17d613bccc06799ad6794b63df5d578d88 +size 373656 diff --git a/assets/manim_in_action.png b/assets/manim_in_action.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e895d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/assets/manim_in_action.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:179bb5f938855c00457b4e9cbc6929daa219db5874d5f4f99d1db35b8defd85c +size 1285176 diff --git a/src/grezi_journey.dj b/src/grezi_journey.dj new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a149d23 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/grezi_journey.dj @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +`attributes`{published="2024-10-18 10:25"} + +# Presentation as plain-text, the journey of my favorite pet project + +I am tired, alright, sick and tired of people making boring presentations. And I'm also tired of slideshow programs making it difficult to _make_ good presentations. + +## The Problem + +Software already exists to make really nice presentations, for instance [3BlueOneBrown's](https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown) [Manim](https://github.com/3b1b/manim), which he uses to make super engaging math videos. But Manim requires you to write Python code, which makes the software relatively difficult to use. + +[![Manim in action](assets/manim_in_action.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbu7Zu5X1zI) + +At the other end of the spectrum, you could be using Google Slides or PowerPoint. Those programs make it really easy to make boring, run-of-the-mill presentations. Really the only way to make a presentation look _good_ is by using one of their themes, but as you see more and more presentations from those software's, the themes become stale and overplayed. + +![A bad Google Slides slide I helped make in high school](assets/bad_slide.png) + +My big gripes with these pieces of software derive from the 2 things they encourage: + +1. Imperfection: If you want to, say, put an image in your slide. These softwares might help you a little bit by snapping those images into specific places, but you still have to put in a lot of effort to make slides where everything is aligned with eachother, and everything is pixel perfect. +2. Text walls: The template slides in most themes encourage people to put word salads on each slide, something I particularly don't like. It's so much better to have many slides with little amounts of information per-slide, than to have less slides with large amounts of information per-slide, but because making good slides in these softwares is such a hassle, making more slides isn't desirable. + +To my suprise, I couldn't find any pieces of software that met the happy medium I was looking for. Something that could create engaging presentations, with lots of slides containing little information, where every slide is pixel perfect, with a little amount of effort. + +## My Solution + +Over the last year, I've been working on my masterpiece. A presentation software that was everything I was looking for. My "presentation as plain-text" platform, Grezi. + +``` =html +