Decks
Talks that fill any screen: build steps, animated canvases, a teleprompter that scrolls with you and a remote on your phone.
A deck is a Markdown file cut into slides by --- lines. Every slide reflows to the screen it is on, from a phone to a 4K projector; one SVG canvas can change state slide after slide, and the teleprompter reads you the Notes: of each slide at your pace.
Live#
The Markdown behind it#
examples/showcase.md, its first 46 lines:
markdown
---
title: The Thursday Promise
author: Ada Lindqvist, Operations
date: Spring 2026
theme: studio
accent: "#3657d6"
transition: fade
aspect: 16:9
footer: Northwind Logistics
watermark: Confidential
watermark-opacity: 0.05
runbook: runbook.json
demos: demos/
linkedin: One order, five hand-offs, and a promise that still lands on Thursday. The talk from our operations review, slide by slide. #logistics #reliability
---
# The Thursday Promise
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How one order crosses five teams, fails twice, and still arrives on time.
Notes: (0.5 min)
Welcome. This talk follows a single parcel, order #4711, from the click on "buy" to a doorstep, and the two moments it nearly broke the promise we print at checkout: delivered by Thursday.
---
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## One promise, ==five hand-offs==
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- The shop promises **Thursday** the moment the customer pays
- Payments, warehouse and courier each own one hand-off
- Every team hits its own target, and still one order in eleven arrives late
- Nobody owns the promise from end to end
Notes: (1 min)
Look at that last line: each team is green on its own dashboard, and the customer still waits. The promise lives between the teams, so today we follow one order across all of them.
Points: Talking points
- Three teams, three hand-offs, three separate dashboards
- Each hits its own target; one order in eleven is still late
…Key options#
| Write | What it does |
|---|---|
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center, two-col, split, quote, big-number, image |
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reveal the next block on a click |
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a canvas whose parts change state slide by slide |
Notes: (2 min) |
the teleprompter script, with [CLICK] cues |
transition: |
fade, slide, zoom, none |
Commands#
Shell
si new talk # a starter deck
si play talk.md --open # present, live reload, p for the teleprompter
si play talk.md --remote # teleprompter, draw pad and clicker on your phone
si build talk.md --pdf --mp4 # one HTML file, plus a PDF and a video