Obsidian/Q/Does Obsidian have a dedicated way of making slideshows?
Does Obsidian have a dedicated way of making Slideshows? Logseq has built-in reveal.js support; is there anything like it in Obsidian, or with plugins?
- Answer/Official from Slides in the Obsidian help, plus the community plugin pages linked below:
- Short answer: Yes. Obsidian ships a core plugin named Slides, and community plugins add reveal.js and Marp workflows on top of it.
- Core Slides plugin (built in):
- Run
Start presentation from the command palette, or right-click a note's tab and choose Start presentation. - Any note works as a deck. Separate slides with
--- on its own line, surrounded by blank lines. - Navigate with the arrow keys or Spacebar;
Escape ends the presentation. - The help page documents nothing beyond this: no themes, transitions, speaker notes, fragments, or export.
- Community plugins for reveal.js-style decks:
- Advanced Slides — markdown-based reveal.js presentations inside Obsidian. The closest match to Logseq's reveal.js support.
- Slides Extended — a fork of Advanced Slides that embeds notes into slides, previews edits live, applies themes, and exports to PDF or HTML.
- Community plugins for Marp decks (a different Markdown slide framework, not reveal.js):
- Marp Slides — preview and export to HTML, PDF, PPTX, or images through the Marp CLI.
- Marp Extended — create, preview, present, and export Marp decks.
- Marp
- Choosing: use core Slides for a quick read-through of a note. Use Advanced Slides or Slides Extended when you want reveal.js features like themes and PDF export. Use Marp when you want PPTX output.