Tired of using Microsoft’s PowerPoint for in-class presentations?
Try using the Obsidian App instead — a markdown text editor
Formatting slides in Microsoft’s PowerPoint or Apple’s Keynote presentation software for each lesson or class can take a lot of time to make them look good, and can distract from the main point of teaching — the content. If you are like me, I like my presentations to really stand out, and I often overfocus on design rather than content. To focus on what really matters, the content, I tried an experiment using the Obsidian App with presenting material in my class. A writing tool like Obsidian maybe a better tool for you to use to save time and to not get distracted by formatting and the bells-and-whistles of slick slide animations.
The Obsidian App is a free to use Markdown text editor that has been gaining traction among users for its ability to backlink notes together to form a second brain of interrelated information for keeping track of and generating new ideas through wiki style connections. You can install Obsidian on a Mac, Linux, or Windows machine, and the developers are currently working on mobile versions. Users can add-on the ability to sync their notes across computers and publish their notes to the web through a small subscription fee that helps support the app’s development.
