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Dont waste time using powerpoint or google slides to make simple presentations

present github repo: github.com/sayan01/present youtube video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ns4rMnR5A4 I was frustrated with the likes of microsoft powerpoint and google slides for making simple presentations. Presentations are always supposed to be simple and easy to follow, with no unnecesary decorations.  Reference:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY  [How To Speak - MIT] For this reason I dislike apps like slides and powerpoint which spoil the user with too many choices. This forces them to take bad design decisions, as well as waste their time. creating slides should take 5 minutes. preparing for presenting those slides should take the rest of your time. If you spend all your time making the slides (which are just tools to aid your presentation) then you are wasting your time and not practising your presentation itself. For this I made a presentation software that is very simple and fast to use. You dont need to work on proprietary project files like .pptx or .ods.
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Connect with people online without the 'algorithm' coming in between - How I made a social network in one week.

website:  scsp.sayn.work github:  https://github.com/sayan01/scsp This semester in my college I had to build a web project as a part of one of my courses, and I decided to make a social network platform that works for its users, unlike the most of them. The idea was simple, provide a platform to your users, nothing more, nothing less. The software does not assume what you want to see, or what you dont. It doesnt give you 'recommendations' or automatically hide posts from people you follow because it thinks it is irrelevant. If you follow someone, you see their posts. Its that simple.  But how are we sorting the posts? By time? By likes? For this I resorted to one of the most unbiased platforms - reddit. I used its hotranking algorithm to mathematically determine which post is deserving by using its age, as well as the number of likes and dislikes it gained from other users to dynamically assign it a score to sort the posts. The comments are also sorted using an algorithm, but n
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Note Taking - An Art

  Note Taking - An Art Note Taking is an art, there’s no rigid right or wrong. Everyone has their own way of taking notes, and different things work for different people. The skill of note taking also requires years of practice to hone. There are many broad categories of note taking, along with several media to do so. Methods of Note Taking Outlining Method Mapping Method Charting Method Sentence Method Cornell Method Outlining Method: Dash or indented outlining is the easiest and usually best except for some science classes such as physics or math. The information which is most general begins at the left with each more specific group of facts indented with spaces to the right. The relationships between the different parts are carried out through indenting . No numbers, letters, or Roman numerals are needed. This visually depicts the hierarchy of the topics, making it easily digestible. Example: Mapping Method: Mapping is a method that uses comprehension/concentration skills and
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