Kyma is a terminal-based presentation tool that creates beautiful presentations from markdown files with smooth animated transitions.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Markdown-based: Write your presentations in simple markdown syntax.
- Rich rendering: Beautiful terminal rendering using Glamour markdown renderer.
- Smooth transitions: Multiple animated transition effects between slides.
- Swipe left/right.
- Slide up/down.
- Flip effects.
- Hot reload: Live reloading of presentation files during editing by default.
- Customizable styling: Configure borders, colors, and layouts via YAML front matter.
- Theme support: Choose from built-in Glamour themes or load custom JSON theme files.
- Flexible layouts: Center, align, and position content with various layout options.
- Simple navigation: Intuitive keyboard controls for presentation flow (vim style btw).
- Command palette with slide search and filtering.
- Direct slide jumping by number.
- Multi-slide forward/backward jumping.
- Quick first/last slide navigation.
- Presentation timer: Built-in timer system with per-slide and global timing.
- Toggle timer display with a single key.
- Track time spent on each slide.
- Monitor total presentation duration.
- Automatic pause/resume during slide transitions.
Website: github.com/museslabs/kyma
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Developer: Muses
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Kyma is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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