---
title: "Terminal-Based Presentations"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/terminal-based-presentations-dasir6kdb
source_url: https://itnext.io/terminal-based-presentations-66c9f0c9b4a3
type: article
source: "ITNEXT"
author: "Decoder"
published: 2024-11-24T18:49:13.080Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:32:34.335Z
tags: ["devtools", "markdown", "productivity"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 338
comments: 17
language: en
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Terminal-Based Presentations

**[ITNEXT](https://daily.dev/sources/itnext)** · [@decoder](https://daily.dev/decoder) · 4 min read · 338 upvotes · 17 comments

## Summary

Terminal-based presentations streamline technical demonstrations by eliminating the need to switch between multiple tools like slides, terminal, and IDEs. They allow for live code demos, command outputs, and ASCII diagrams to be shown directly in the terminal. To set up, you need tools like Slides, Just, GitHub CLI, and a terminal slides template. Additional tools like PlantUML can enhance the presentation with ASCII diagrams. Custom themes can be applied for visual consistency.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://itnext.io/terminal-based-presentations-66c9f0c9b4a3>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@noricode** · 33 upvotes

> "just because you can doesnt mean you should"

**@waitforit** · 12 upvotes

> Just one question. Why???

**@sandropacella** · 3 upvotes

> Love the style of this! Reminds me of cowsay.
>
>  ________
> < hello! >
>  --------
>         \   ^__^
>          \  (oo)\_______
>             (__)\       )\/\
>                 ||----w |
>                 ||     ||

**@valkirilov** · 2 upvotes

> A long time ago, as a thesis project in school, I created an editor for interactive HTML/CSS/JS presentations - something like PowerPoint, but designed for creating presentations with [impress.js](https://impress.js.org/).
>
> Now, 10 years later, I come across a tool for creating presentations in the terminal. Wow! The gap between these two approaches is so vast - it perfectly illustrates how diverse the world is and how different personality types have such varied preferences for what they consider "cool stuff".

**@chainyo** · 0 upvotes

> That would have helped me when I showcased uv some months ago to my co-workers! It's that kind of tool super useful when you show things used in a terminal

## Similar posts on daily.dev

- [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments
- [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments
- [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

---

Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#markdown](https://daily.dev/tags/markdown), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity)

[View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/terminal-based-presentations-dasir6kdb)