Your first deck in five minutes

Deckwright turns plain text into slides. You write on the left, the preview on the right shows the real slide — exactly as it will look in the PDF. Everything stays in your browser.

Start an empty deck

1. Open the File menu and choose New deck.
2. The editor on the left, Deck in Markdown, now holds a short starter deck. Select all of it and delete it.

Write three slides

Type this into the editor:

---
title: Book club
lang: en
---

# Book club

Our plan for spring

---

## This month

- Read chapters 1 to 6
- Bring one question

---

## Next meeting

Thursday at 7 pm in the library

The part between the first two --- lines is the front matter: the deck title and its language. After that, every line with three dashes starts a new slide. # makes a title slide, ## makes the title of a normal slide, - makes bullets.

The preview follows your cursor: click into the text of the second slide and the preview shows slide 2. Use the arrows above the preview, Previous slide and Next slide, or the keys [ and ] to page through.

Pick a theme and a shape

In the toolbar, open the Theme list and try Midnight, Harbor or High contrast. The front matter gets a line theme: … — the theme is part of your text, so it travels with the file. The Slide shape list switches between Widescreen 16:9 and Standard 4:3.

All themes are checked against the WCAG contrast rules, so you can pick on taste.

Download

Press Download PDF at the right of the toolbar (or Ctrl+E). The PDF has real, selectable text and the fonts are embedded, so it looks the same on every computer.

Your deck is saved in this browser while you type; the toolbar shows Saved in this browser. To keep a copy elsewhere, use File → Save project file.

Next steps

• The Insert menu adds charts, diagrams, tables, images and speaker notes.
• Present → Present from the start (or F5) shows the deck full screen.
• The Check view lists accessibility problems before you share the deck.