Open source · Built for Omarchy
Omapresent turns any Markdown file into a presentation. No slide masters, no drag handles, no fiddling.
You are not rehearsing. You are nudging a text box two pixels left, watching a font substitute itself on the projector, and clicking through an animation that fires twice.
None of that is your talk. Your talk is the words.
Omapresent takes the fiddling away and leaves you with one plain text file and a way to say it out loud. Open a Markdown file and it is already a presentation. Press F5. That's the whole workflow.
Two real windows, so screen sharing is simple: share the audience window and your notes stay yours. Plug in a projector mid-talk and the windows sort themselves out.
Every other tool answers a full slide the same way: make the type smaller until the back row gives up. Omapresent refuses. The slide grows taller and scrolls at full size, and the audience screen scrolls exactly with you.
Shrink to fit
Eight rows, one screen, nobody past row three can read it.
Omapresent scroll inside ↓
Same eight rows at full size. The slide got taller, not smaller.
The feature you will miss everywhere else
Put a letter on a slide separator and that slide is bound to that key for the whole talk. Press it and the slide pops over whatever is on screen. Press it again and you are back exactly where you were, mid-sentence, nothing lost.
# The First Ten Minutes
--- {q}
# Before we start
https://omapresent.comThat is the entire syntax. --- {q} instead of ---.
Use it for the QR code to your entrance survey, the agenda the room keeps asking about, the one diagram everything hangs on. Bind up to eight in one deck. Q E R T Y sit under your left hand and stay out of the way of the keys that already do something — W whites out the screen, B blacks it out.
Add --- {q, skip} and the slide never appears in the linear run at all. It only exists when you call for it.
Recall slides started as an idea from @theaaron on X. Thank you.
Omapresent reads your Omarchy theme and wears it. Change your desktop theme and every deck follows, live. There is no colour picker in this app because there is nothing left for it to do.
Want one talk in a different palette? Add theme: gruvbox to the frontmatter and only Omapresent changes.
Want it to look like nothing else on this page? It is a colors.toml file — sixteen colours and an accent. Hand it to your agent, say what you want, and you have a new look in a couple of minutes. That is the whole customisation story, and it is the same one every other Omarchy app tells.
Headings, lists, tables, code, quotes and media go to the audience. Plain paragraphs go to your presenter screen as speaker notes. You never learn a notes syntax — you just write the way you already write, and the split happens on its own.
Two images side by side, four in a grid, six in a mosaic. Consecutive image lines become a bento layout with no work from you. Add |main to pick the hero tile.
List items reveal as you speak. Indented outlines show all at once. The difference is how you wrote it, not a menu you found.
Drop a link on its own line and the room scans it off the wall, with the address printed underneath. Video links become players instead.
KaTeX and syntax highlighting are bundled in, so equations and code blocks stay crisp with no network anywhere in sight.
Ctrl+E exports slides to PDF, tall ones paginated. Ctrl+Shift+P publishes a static bundle — a deck to click through and a long-read article of the same talk — to your own host.
Omarchy · x86_64 · MIT
Omapresent v0.1.3 is in the official Omarchy package repository. The reliable install path is one terminal command.
Install it from Omarchy's official package repository.
omarchy pkg add omapresentIf the command cannot find the package, run omarchy update, then retry.
Clone it and let the install script build the package and install it.
git clone https://github.com/jethrojones/omapresent.git
cd omapresent
./bin/installNeeds makepkg. Runtime dependencies are qt6-base, qt6-declarative, qt6-webengine, qt6-webchannel, qt6-multimedia, xdg-desktop-portal, hicolor-icon-theme and ttf-ia-writer; imagemagick to build.
Then open any .md file you already have and press F5. Omapresent ships with a welcome deck that is itself the manual — every feature demonstrated live on its own slide, with the reasoning in the speaker notes.
omapresent present ~/notes/my-talk.mdOmapresent is MIT licensed. Read every line, fork it, ship your own build, or open an issue and make the case for a different default.
It is built by Jethro Jones, who has given enough talks to know exactly which part of the job software should stay out of. It started from the foundation of Omawrite by David Heinemeier Hansson and grew into a presenter.
Nothing in it phones home. Two things touch the network, and only when you ask for them: pre-fetching a video you embedded, and publishing a deck you chose to publish. Everything else — the Markdown parser, the maths, the QR codes, the fonts — is bundled in the package.