Slides Plus

Beautiful presentations from your Obsidian notes. Write your slides in Markdown, preview them live, and present directly from your vault.

Features

• Markdown slides — Use --- separators to split your notes into slides. Add slides: true to your frontmatter to activate.
• 6 themes — Obsidian, Midnight, Paper, Boardroom, Academic, and Studio. Set via frontmatter or settings.
• Layouts — Cover, center, two-cols, image-right, image-left, section, quote, and full bleed.
• Transitions — Slide, fade, slide-up, or none. Configurable per-slide.
• Presenter view — Current slide, next slide preview, speaker notes, and a timer.
• Slide navigator — Thumbnail grid for quick navigation.
• PDF export — Export to self-contained HTML, open in browser, and print/save as PDF. Supports dark mode, LaTeX, and Mermaid.
• Live preview — Sidebar panel updates as you type.
• Per-slide styling — Override any design token via frontmatter (sp-slide-bg, sp-slide-accent, sp-font-heading, etc.).

Screenshots

Academic Theme (Light)

Academic Theme (Dark)

Integrations

• LaTeX — Math equations rendered with MathJax.
• Mermaid — Diagrams rendered inline.
• Excalidraw — Embed .excalidraw drawings in your slides.

Quick Start

1. Create a new note and add this frontmatter:

---
slides: true
theme: academic
---

1. Write your slides separated by ---:

---
layout: cover
---

# My Presentation
## Subtitle here

---

## Slide 2

- Point one
- Point two
- Point three

---
layout: quote
---

> A great quote goes here.

1. Open the Slide Preview panel from the command palette or the ribbon icon.
2. Press the Present button to go fullscreen.

Themes

Theme	Description
obsidian	Adapts to Obsidian's light/dark mode
midnight	Deep blue, fixed dark palette
paper	Paper-and-ink, weight-based hierarchy
boardroom	Professional, projection-optimized
academic	Warm academic, Poppins + Lora
studio	Bold artist's palette on black

Set a theme globally in Settings → Slides Plus, or per-deck in frontmatter:

---
slides: true
theme: boardroom
---

Per-Slide Styling

Use simple, Markdown-friendly properties instead of CSS:

---
background: sunset          # Preset gradient (sunset, ocean, forest, fire, etc.)
accent-color: purple        # Named color or hex code
text-size: large           # small | normal | large | huge
text-align: center         # left | center | right
heading-font: serif        # serif | sans | mono (or specific font names)
padding: large             # none | small | normal | large
---

Available background presets: sunset, ocean, forest, fire, night, aurora, cosmic
Available color presets: blue, red, green, purple, orange, pink, yellow, teal

For advanced users, custom CSS is still available via custom-css: frontmatter.

See Frontmatter Reference for all options.

Speaker Notes

Add speaker notes as HTML comments:

## My Slide

Content here.

<!-- These are speaker notes visible only in presenter view -->

License

MIT — aqcohen