ation

– a simple keynote software for markdown files – written using electron

Usage

After opening any markdown file you can press Tab to show all available keybindings. The keybindings are chosen, so they work with commont presenters like the "Logitech R400".

Markdown

ation tries to make a presentation out of any ordinary markdown file. It considers H1 titles to be a standalone slide and H2 titles to start a new slide. There also is a special template for a "cover slide", which is provisioned by meta data at the top of your markdown file.

Meta data

To keep compatibility with other markdown parsers, ation does not implement a YAML front matter or similar, but tries to parse the first HTML comment in your markdown file as meta data. The meta data is specified as simple key-value pairs, one pair per line, a color (:) seperating the key from the value.

Possible values

Key	Type	Example Value
title	string	My Keynote
subtitle	string	an introduction into ation
author	string	MikO, Massive Dynamic
email	email address	miko@mail.tld
icon	path (relative)	./my_logo.svg
color_highlight	CSS color value	#4994DA
color_background	CSS color value	#1A1A1A
color_text	CSS color value	#DDDDDD
font	CSS font identifier	Iosevka

Example

<!--
	title            : My Keynote                  
	subtitle         : an introduction into `ation`
	author           : MikO, Massive Dynamic       
	email            : miko@mail.tld               
	icon             : ./my_logo.svg               
	color_highlight  : #4994DA                     
	color_background : #1A1A1A                     
	color_text       : #DDDDDD                     
	font             : Iosevka                     
-->

The color values override the ones that have been set in ation's settings on a per slideshow basis.

Installation

Either choose a pre-built release from the releases page or build ation yourself running

npm i
npm run dist

Releases are currently only available for macOS and Windows.