presenterm

presenterm lets you create presentations in markdown format and run them from your terminal, with support for image and animated gifs, highly customizable themes, code highlighting, exporting presentations into PDF format, and plenty of other features. This is how the demo presentation looks like when running in the kitty terminal:

Check the rest of the example presentations in the examples directory.

Documentation

Visit the documentation to get started.

Features

• Presentations consist of one or more markdown files.
• Images and animated gifs on terminals like kitty, iterm2, wezterm, ghostty and foot.
• Customizable themes including colors, margins, layout (left/center aligned content), footer for every slide, etc. Several built-in themes can give your presentation the look you want without having to define your own.
• Code highlighting for a wide list of programming languages.
• Font sizes for terminals that support them.
• Selective/dynamic code highlighting that only highlights portions of code at a time.
• Column layouts.
• mermaid graph rendering.
• d2 graph rendering.
• LaTeX and typst formula rendering.
• Introduction slide that displays the presentation title and your name.
• Slide titles.
• Snippet execution for various programming languages, including execution inside pseudo terminals.
• Export presentations to PDF and HTML.
• Slide transitions.
• Pause portions of your slides.
• Custom key bindings.
• Automatically reload your presentation every time it changes for a fast development loop.
• Define speaker notes to aid you during presentations.

See the introduction page to learn more.

presenterm in action

Here are some talks and demos that feature presenterm:

• Bringing Terminal Aesthetics to the Web With Rust by Orhun Parmaksız
• 7 Rust Terminal Tools That You Should Use by Orhun Parmaksız
• Renaissance of Terminal User Interfaces with Rust by Orhun Parmaksız
• Using Nix on Apple Silicon and declarative development environments by pwnwriter
• Hayasen: A Robust Embedded Rust Library which supports multiple sensors by Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish
• Using ratatui in Embedded sytems : Meet Mousefood by Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish

Gave a talk using presenterm? We would love to feature it here! Open a PR or issue to get it added.

<!-- links -->