Creating Cool Slides With Emacs Org-Mode and Revealjs

Reveal.js has a whole bag of tricks to help you highlight the concepts in your presentations. I’ll show you how to write presentations with Emacs & Org-mode that make use of these features, whilest keeping your content as markdown text. I use a simple template with all the common features there as examples I can copy-n-paste.

I also have a Github pages site with example slides I have created.

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Create HTML5 Presentations Easily With Emacs and Reveal.js

Creating presentations with Emacs is quick and more collaborative than with other tools I have used. Using Emacs Org-mode you can easily structure and navigate your content. Using Org-Reveal you can generate a great looking HTML5 presentation using Reveal.js from your org-mode content.

I’ll show you how to configure Emacs, Org-Reveal and Reveal.js so you can create content in plain text and generate a themed, animated slide-deck that supports syntax highlighting for lots of languages. As your content is in plan text its easy to collaborate around it with Github.

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Configuring Emacs Org-Mode to Managing Your Tasks

Emacs Org-mode has a feature called Org-capture that makes it easy to keep track of all the to-do’s that crop up as we work on projects. With Org-capture you can make comments across all your files and projects and link to them all from one place.

Here is how to configure Emacs Org-capture so you can quickly create new tasks relevant to specific files and easily manage them all in one place. If you are not familiar with Emacs Org-mode, take a look at my article: Manage your developer life with Org-mode.

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