Presentations as Code // How to use the Obsidian Advanced Slides plugin

[@nicolevdh]

As some of you have pointed out, the Advanced Slides plugin is no longer listed as a community plugin by Obsidian. They go over their reasoning here: forum.obsidian.md/t/advanced-slides-create-markdown-based-reveal-js-presentations-in-obsidian/28243/203 Essentially, the Advanced Slides plugin developer has refused to adhere to Obsidian best practices around intrusive donation requests. I agree with the Obsidian team's decision and no longer use Advanced Slides myself, so I am unlisting this video.

[@jasonqq]

The Advanced Slides author has fixed the issue and the plugin is re-listed. Could you re-list your video now as well? It's a great reference.

[@drlukewhite]

The variety and functionality of plugins that people have written for Obsidian is truly amazing!

[@nicolevdh]

I know, right? I can't keep up! It seems like every time I look, there are several mind-blowing plugins I've been sleeping on. It's so cool to be part of such a dynamic community.

[@nicolevdh]

MSzturc, the developer of this plugin, reached out to me let me know that in 8:43 , there is a MUCH easier way to animated bulleted or numbered lists. I could have just used a + instead of a - ! He's updated the documentation now to reflect this: mszturc.github.io/obsidian-advanced-slides/extend-syntax/fragmentedlists/

[@drkarmakid]

Is there any way to do something like this with Excalidraw graphics? eg first draw one circle, then an overlapping second one, and finally you see a Venn diagram

[@fmkoba]

ok, this is the incentive I needed to revamp some old presentations I’ve been procrastinating for a while

[@nicolevdh]

Yay! Good to hear from you! :) Good luck with that - sounds like a lot to do!!

[@ColoradoCody1]

You've always been a keystone of the Obsidian community. We love how you can assuage our curiosity about something related to Obsidian quickly with your summaries. Your a faithful rock - keeping us up to date and saving us valuable time. We can always trust we'll get value out of your videos. They're appropriately detailed and appropriately succinct at the same time. Edited with obvious thoughtfulness and care. Thank you!

[@nicolevdh]

Wow, thank you for the kind words, Cody! I'm so happy to hear you appreciate the effort that goes into the videos. I do struggle with the length of the videos sometimes - being succinct is always a challenge. Thanks for the encouragement, though! :)

[@Xedualc]

I used to use a VS Code extension doing exactly that. I'm very glad there's a plugin for Obsidian as well. Thx for the vid!

[@nicolevdh]

Ooh, I tried a couple VS Code extensions for that as well. But having it in Obsidian is just way better for my workflow!

[@hasues]

Braingasm. I love this. Great demo too. I love Obsidian. I've used so many documentation tools over the years in this space, and its great to see how Obsidian is thriving with these community plugins. Kudos!

[@goldenknowledge5914]

this is amazing. first time im hearing about html slides but this is a game changer. im thinking to host important slides online and just send people a QR code that links to it. can probably work as a sales copy as well. sky is the limit

[@nicolevdh]

Absolutely! HTML slides are so much better. No account or installation required, and they can be used by you while you're presenting AND by your audience simultaneously. I think it's the most modern approach to presentations, and the fact that they're easier to create with plugins like this that are integrated into note-taking systems is a bonus!

[@space_audits]

Great video. Extremely informative. Once you get the basics, it's not so intimidating.

[@tomo-one]

Great video again. Another useful trick when you are in presentation mode: Press CTRL and click to the area which you want to emphasize. This will zoom in. Another CTRL + click will zoom out again.

[@nicolevdh]

Didn't know about that! Must try it out. :)

[@tomo-one]

@@nicolevdh I think it is not noted in the documentation. But very nice when you want to highlight something in your presentation.

[@AntlerMoth00]

This is the best video about Advanced slides!

[@nicolevdh]

Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@evepresso4096]

Great video!!! Very cool Nicole! Back in Uni I once made a presentation in LaTex haha :D Obsidian Advanced Slides looks so much better and is so much easier

[@nicolevdh]

Oh cool! I remember having to write a paper in LaTex... I'm glad I don't have to do that now though! Thanks Eve :)

[@robotsfortherestofus]

Thank you for this! Really clear and helpful.

[@DeLFeTube]

Love your obsidian content Nicole!

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks, Alex! Appreciate the support :)

[@tuija21]

I just gave a presentation in my Danish class and your instructions made creating my slides a breeze. Tusind tak! Btw, I found out that instead of using that fragment comment after a bullet point to make it appear later, you could just use ”+” instead of ”-” to have the same effect.

[@nicolevdh]

Yep, I actually put it in the first pinned comment on this video after the developer reached out and told me about it. :) At the time, it was an undocumented feature so I didn't know about it! I see he's since updated the documentation. Really happy to hear you were able to create a presentation with this plugin! Hope it went well! Tak to you too! :)

[@dayana6811]

Wooww, really promising plugin, thanks for sharing!!

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks Mica! Glad that was helpful for you! Advanced Slides deserves more love. :)

[@hdubbs9174]

Neato! I don't have any use for the slides right now, but it might become a little more useful for me, once I start working full time.

[@nicolevdh]

I was actually talking to the developer of this plugin, and he mentioned that he uses slides even for himself, as a way to collate several atomic notes into a slide. It's an interesting twist on the MoC idea! I want to try it for myself sometime.

[@hdubbs9174]

@@nicolevdh That's an interesting use-case! Cheers

[@ClarkeScott]

Hi Nicole. Grat video again!. Thank you for all you work. Question: is there a way to edit the themes to match ones brand colors?

[@nicolevdh]

Yes! They are full CSS, so you can either find a theme or modify one to use your colours.

[@jeremysnowdenz]

Thanks, Nicole! A great tool!

[@benjaminjameswaller]

hey Nicole Love your content. Am learning a lot. I noted that the link your referred to from your recent presentation called Use it or lost it is wrong. 🤔 I would love to see that so pls update here once resolved. Thanks

[@eltonleao3979]

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 insanely amazing! thanks a lot.

[@nicolevdh]

Hey, glad you like it! :)

[@jaimebac7728]

holy shark I just found a great channel

[@mraaroncruz]

Such a great tutorial. Thank you!

[@nicolevdh]

Hey, glad you liked it! :)

[@ninetysome6108]

Really interesting! Lot of tricks too, thank you, btw is that a custom theme you are using?

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks! It is not-- it's a theme called Sanctum, on the light mode. :)

[@giftegwuenu]

Loved this video. thanks Nicole!

[@nicolevdh]

So glad you liked it, Gift! So sweet of you to get the little paper airplane next to your name.

[@giftegwuenu]

@@nicolevdh Yasss! Always here to support. I should enable this soon for my channel too like we discussed.

[@nicolevdh]

You absolutely should!!

[@eagleram13]

Great tutorial, thanks! I'm getting the hang of it. Wondering how you get the code suggestions to come up? I don't see that while typing in, for instance, the slide background color.

[@nicolevdh]

Hey David! In the Advanced Slides plugin settings, you can enable "Auto complete"! I actually ended up turning it off after a while because I found it annoying, but it was very useful at the beginning when learning the commands in the first place!

[@markoaksentijevic1097]

Hello Nicole! Great video! I just want to ask you if you know how to write math expressions in slides? When I write something like $$x_1 = x_2$$ it appears well in slide show mode, but when I export presentation it disappears!

[@peterc2697]

I see your comment regarding Advanced Slide plugin issues re. donation requests. Apart from that. Should you do another video on Obsidian slides, could you discuss image and text placement within the frame of the output slides, or does the plugin place them where it likes. In PowerPoint you seemed to have the ability for placement of objects within the output frame, but I have yet to see someone do any explaining about it within Obsidian. Thank you in advance.

[@iuryt]

Hi Nicole, How to put a sort of table of contents (Outline;Summary) slide?

[@vyccsml525]

thanks for your introduction, but when I try this plugin, three dashes doesn't work at all, it's still in the same slides, I guess Obsidian assume it is still in the same block when I used # in slides, would you please to help me out?

[@andriytodorov]

You just blow my mind with Obsidian functions. Thank you!!!! Do you know how can I find themes for Advance Slide? You typed : white and blood ) is there any library to see them all?

[@nicolevdh]

Happy to help! :) Here are the ones that come by default: mszturc.github.io/obsidian-advanced-slides/themes/ But you can also create your own or download ones others have made! :)

[@andriytodorov]

@@nicolevdh thank you!!! Waiting for your next video

[@mgook_]

What is your theme?? It looks very nice

[@nicolevdh]

It is Sanctum, on light mode. :)

[@DeLFeTube]

Question: Niclole would it be possible to embed an ascii-cinema snipet to the presentation ?

[@nicolevdh]

Yup! Works using an !

[@eddyscheidegger61]

Hey Nicole, i have a question; is there a possibility to put the graph view into the presentation?

[@nicolevdh]

Hi Eddy! I don't think so, unfortunately, or at least I don't know of a way to do that if you want it to still be able to interact with it. :(

[@jenseichberg3426]

when i add an images to the presentation it only displazed in the live preview in obsidian itself, but not shown when i print it to pdf or export to html or at least open this in my browser. Can you help?

[@nicolevdh]

Hi Jens, since I can't reproduce that problem, it may be better for you to contact the plugin developer - you can raise an issue in the GitHub repository and get more specialized help there. :)

[@kowalskifrog]

Have you tried Marp or pandocs for presentation creation?

[@nicolevdh]

I have tried to use Pandoc to convert presentations but it never worked too well for me. Now that there's an Obsidian plugin, I don't see a need to use anything else!

[@kowalskifrog]

@@nicolevdh I'll have to give Advanced Slides a shot then. Appreciate the video!

[@jeremiasremix]

Hi Nicole, are you aware of any form of countdown tracker for Obsidian? I'd like to have a list of key upcoming events I need to give special attention to, I'd like to see the remaining days to such events. There's simple apps to do that, but this would be really nice to have integrated to obsidian. Thanks for your wonderful content!

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks for the nice words, Julio! Unfortunately, I don't know of any Obsidian plugins that do that! The best that I can think of would be to use JavaScript via the Templater plugin to calculate and display that countdown, if you have some programming skills!

[@markush8300]

when I use the slides, I can make new pages by adding the dashes but the text doesn´t appear :( any idea why this could be the case? I am on Mac and everything is up to date.

[@shishan8194]

thank you for your vedio:)

[@Justgoodvids]

Can this be combined with Excalidraw to combine multiple notes into a slideshow?

[@nicolevdh]

Yes, it absolutely can! I have been experimenting with just that!

[@creative-jammers]

How do I have a constant background of picture in advanced slides :))

[@nicolevdh]

Hi, I demonstrated exactly that in this video.

[@creative-jammers]

I tried but only that slide…

[@creative-jammers]

:)

[@ZakirJaafar]

Great stuffs

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks, Zakir! :) Glad you liked it!

[@beniaminradomir9798]

Jo, that shit is fire!

[@jamesnicholls9049]

Not very code savvy person here. How do I share the html with my team mates? Do I download and then share the files and they can just run it on their computers?

[@nicolevdh]

Yes, you can do that! I prefer to publish it on my own site, to make it accessible to everyone, but yes, you can definitely pass the HTML files to your colleagues and they should be able to open it up on their browsers as well.

[@tomiyokasensei]

how to embed slides into notes ? not the other way around embed notes into slides .

[@gaborkovacs189]

Did you just say "köszönöm"? :)

[@nicolevdh]

Yes! :D Or at least... I tried! Hungary is one of my favourite countries in the world.

[@gaborkovacs189]

@@nicolevdh Nice try, it was surprising :)

[@fredtempez2727]

Advanced Slides has been banned form store by devs of Obsidian

[@nicolevdh]

Whoa, really? How did you know? And did you know why?