Comment by red_hare

2 days ago

I use Claude Code for lecture prep.

I craft a detailed and ordered set of lecture notes in a Quarto file and then have a dedicated claude code skill for translating those notes into Slidev slides, in the style that I like.

Once that's done, much like the author, I go through the slides and make commented annotations like "this should be broken into two slides" or "this should be a side-by-side" or "use your generate clipart skill to throw an image here alongside these bullets" and "pull in the code example from ../examples/foo." It works brilliantly.

And then I do one final pass of tweaking after that's done.

But yeah, annotations are super powerful. Token distance in-context and all that jazz.

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saxelsen  2 days ago

Can I ask how you annotate the feedback for it? Just with inline comments like `# This should be changed to X`?

The author mentions annotations but doesn't go into detail about how to feed the annotations to Claude.

  • red_hare  2 days ago

    Slidev is markdown, so i do it in html comments. Usually something like:

        <!-- TODOCLAUDE: Split this into a two-cols-title, divide the examples between -->

    or

        <!-- TODOCLAUDE: Use clipart skill to make an image for this slide -->

    And then, when I finish annotating I just say: "Address all the TODOCLAUDEs"

malshe  2 days ago

Quarto can be used to output slides in various formats (Powerpoint, beamer for pdf, revealjs for HTML, etc.). I wonder why you use Slidev as you can just ask Claude Code to create another Quarto document.

  • sidpatil  2 days ago

    It looks like Slidev is designed for presentations about software development, judging from its feature set. Quarto is more general-purpose. (That's not to say Quarto can't support the same features, but currently it doesn't.)

    I'm not affiliated with Slidev. I was just curious.

ramoz  2 days ago

is your skill open source

  • red_hare  2 days ago

    Not yet... but also I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to be open source. It's super specific to how I like to build slide decks and to my personal lecture style.

    But it's not hard to build one. The key for me was describing, in great detail:

    1. How I want it to read the source material (e.g., H1 means new section, H2 means at least one slide, a link to an example means I want code in the slide)

    2. How to connect material to layouts (e.g., "comparison between two ideas should be a two-cols-title," "walkthrough of code should be two-cols with code on right," "learning objectives should be side-title align:left," "recall should be side-title align:right")

    Then the workflow is:

    1. Give all those details and have it do a first pass.

    2. Give tons of feedback.

    3. At the end of the session, ask it to "make a skill."

    4. Manually edit the skill so that you're happy with the examples.