Creating Presentation slides in Obsidian
Often, note files are created with detailed content and are structured in a way a document is structured. So, there will be headings, sub-headings, bullets, text, table, embeddings, etc. But when presentation is created, only a summarized or highlighted or most important content from that note is to be included.
Intention is to have more control over the document of presentation slide in Obsidian by allowing the user to provide beginning and ending of slides along with slide separators.
As of now, only the slide separator can be provided. That means that everything before the first separator “—” will become the first slide, and so on. This requires us to create a new note file for every presentation.
But at times, our presentation is embedded in a note file with a lot of other content as well.
Proposed solution
We want the ability to specifically mark content that we want to publish as a presentation. Thereby, we should be able to:
- Provide a beginning of the presentation. Anything before this mark will be ignored for creating first slide of the presentation.
- Provide an ending of the presentation. Anything after this mark will be ignored for creating the last slide of the presentation.
- Allow user to either just separate slides using “—” separator, or provide “title” and “content” marker to specify content that will be taken into slides while keeping the overall contents and structure of the note intact.
Current workaround (optional)
Currently, this is not possible.
The only way to achieve differentiation between the contents of the notes and the contents of the presentation is to have two separate files. And then get relevant contents from the note file and put it in the slides file.
We want to remove this redundancy.