A local-first presentation tool. Decks are written in Markdown, laid out by one solver, and delivered offline — no account, no service, no round trip.
A deck is a folder: a deck.md, a theme.css and an assets/ directory. Plain text, so it diffs, it merges, and it outlives this application. Move the folder, hand it to a colleague, put it in git — it is yours in a way a proprietary blob in a cloud drive is not.
WRITE IT, OR DRAW IT
Author in Markdown and watch it lay out, or work on the canvas and let the Markdown follow. Both edit the same deck; neither is the "real" one.
OPEN WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE
EXPORT WITHOUT LOSING THE DESIGN
Speaker notes are optional on every export that can carry them, and off by default — notes are written for the speaker, and an exported deck is usually for somebody else.
PRESENT IT
The projector gets a second window of the same binary, so the audience view survives an editor crash. You keep a dashboard: the current slide, what is coming, your notes, a clock and a pace cue worked out from the notes themselves. Draw on the slide, point with a laser, blank the screen, and hand the room a copy over the local network — served from your machine, behind a one-session token, and gone when you close it.
AN ASSISTANT ONLY IF YOU WANT ONE
Off by default, and off is a complete state rather than a degraded one: everything the app does with a deck it does without a model. Turn it on, point it at Ollama or LM Studio, and it reads Markdown, text, CSV, PDF, Word, PowerPoint and OpenDocument — keeping a line range or a page number on everything, so what it says can be checked against the source. Nothing starts until it is asked: no port probed, no server started, no model loaded because a window opened.
WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
It does not have an account. It does not have a server. It does not phone home. There is no Keynote or Google Slides export — Keynote's format is undocumented and Google Slides has no local file at all, and writing to it would mean an account and your deck leaving the machine. Both open a .pptx or an .odp directly.
MP4 and WebM export are not available in this package. They need ffmpeg, and a confined snap cannot run a program installed on your system. Every other export format is here and needs nothing installed.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snapd can be installed from Manjaro’s Add/Remove Software application (Pamac), found in the launch menu. From the application, search for snapd, select the result, and click Apply.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo pacman -S snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install SlidesWeft, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install slidesweft
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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