r/CERN • u/MonkeyforCEO • 17d ago

askCERN Which tools are you using for making presentations?

Earlier I used to have Canva as my primary tool for making presentations because It gives me complete freedom and I can create very nice presentations. But I don't think it is very collaborative considering not many people use it.

Another option is Google slides, but I am not sure it gives you the level of freedom or creativity.

What tools or platforms other guys use to make nice presentations?

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u/thedarkplayer 17d ago

99% of presentations are made either in Keynote, Google Slides or PowerPoint. Some madman uses beamer. I use Google Slides.

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u/MonkeyforCEO 17d ago

Okay, thank you!

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u/Agreeable_Employ_951 14d ago

Beamer is great for progression of analysis when you want to easily update a bunch of plots

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u/eulerolagrange 17d ago

Beamer. I'm a scientist not a businessman.

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u/Cleeve702 17d ago

Founded the madman

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u/MonkeyforCEO 17d ago

Haha, I tried beamer once and it was very hard. I questioned my life choices there for a minute

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u/Ms_Zee 16d ago

Same 🙈

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u/pvisc 16d ago

Let me introduce you to typst and one of its slides packages touying

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u/MonkeyforCEO 15d ago

Cool, thanks

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u/jimsid11 16d ago

Casual ones the good old PowerPoint, more formal ones Latex.

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u/Alpaca1795 CERN OSI 16d ago

Slides mode of codiMD. Very basic, but also very clean. 

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u/Due-Target-4442 16d ago

You can use chatgpt to give you suggestions for design or template then you can use it to create your presentation. If you really want to go further then i think there are claude or chatgpt connectors which can be used to create presentations. 

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u/MonkeyforCEO 15d ago

This is what I've been doing now. It's a great way

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u/ThiefMaster 16h ago

Nobody wants to see AI slop in presentations.

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u/Best-Lime-5948 12d ago

I use AI (mostly Grok / Claude). I ask it to create presentations in code format rather than pdf or powerpoint, the output is much better.

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u/Correct-Hope-2227 16d ago

Is canva too much?

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u/MonkeyforCEO 16d ago

Canva is best for me but the problem is not very people use it. I can't share collaborative link and then people look at me with "huh? What's that" look

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u/bneidk 16d ago

I really like Slidev and have been using this lately
Previously used mostly beamer

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u/Creepy_Disco_Spider 15d ago

I use a computer

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u/MonkeyforCEO 15d ago

No shit, sherlock

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u/Creepy_Disco_Spider 15d ago

😂😂😂

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u/its07 13d ago

LaTeX only.

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u/thePolystyreneKidA 10d ago

Sli.dev with my own theme implemented

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u/MonkeyforCEO 10d ago

Cool, thanks