Paperish Presentation

Paperish Presentation

Present any Obsidian note as minimal, typography-driven slides — the way Dropbox Paper did it. The deck is a projection of your rendered note: everything that renders in reading view (Bases embeds, LaTeX, callouts, embeds, community-plugin output) renders on your slides.

Usage

Run Paperish Presentation: Present current note from the command palette. The note opens as slides in a new tab, split at headings (H2 by default) and --- rules.

• Next: →, ↓, Space, PageDown, or click/tap
• Previous: ←, ↑, Shift+Space, PageUp
• First/last slide: Home / End
• Fullscreen: f
• Refresh: r (re-renders the note, keeping your place)
• Exit: Esc (returns to the source note at the current heading, configurable)

Within a slide, blocks reveal step by step (configurable: whole slides, blocks, or list items). A context bar shows the ancestor headings of the current slide.

For large decks, run "Open slide outline" to get a sidebar panel listing every slide (indented by section, current slide highlighted) — click an entry to jump straight to it.

When a slide is taller than the viewport, its heading pins to the top while you step through it ("Sticky slide heading" setting, on by default). While pinned the heading has the pp-stuck class, so a CSS snippet can restyle it — prefer transform over font-size, which would reflow the deck mid-scroll:

.paperish-presentation .pp-stuck {
	transform: scale(0.7);
	transform-origin: top left;
	transition: transform 150ms ease;
}

Per-note options

• slides-break: h1 | h2 | h3 overrides the break level for that note.
• title (plus optional description) adds a cover slide at the start of the presentation: title large, description smaller and muted, both centered. The cover never appears in the context bar and never sticks.

Notes and limitations (v1)

• Footnotes render at the document end, so they land on the last slide.

• The presentation is a snapshot; edits are not reflected live while you type. Press r (or run "Refresh presentation") to re-render in place, and by default the presentation refreshes itself when its tab regains focus after the note changed (configurable). Interactive state like callout folds resets on refresh.

• Some themes misbehave at large font scales. Use the "Extra container classes" setting plus a CSS snippet to fine-tune, e.g.:

  .paperish-presentation.my-deck .pp-doc {
  	--pp-media-max-h: 80vh;
  	letter-spacing: -0.01em;
  }
  

  with my-deck in the extra-classes setting.