I like using Markdown for all sorts of "human and machine readable" tasks these days. Text-only formats are really, really nice, and Markdown has formatting-for-display built in, so using it as a text format for defining slides seems like a natural extension to me.
Maybe you're saying, "You shouldn't use slides. You should be writing a memo!" I guess that is a different take from my assumptions which was: "Sometimes I want to make slides. I'd like them to be easy to author and edit in text. Maybe Markdown would be nice..."
I like using Markdown for all sorts of "human and machine readable" tasks these days. Text-only formats are really, really nice, and Markdown has formatting-for-display built in, so using it as a text format for defining slides seems like a natural extension to me.
Maybe you're saying, "You shouldn't use slides. You should be writing a memo!" I guess that is a different take from my assumptions which was: "Sometimes I want to make slides. I'd like them to be easy to author and edit in text. Maybe Markdown would be nice..."