# fxn/tkn

Terminal Keynote - A hack for terminal-based talks

Repository: https://github.com/fxn/tkn
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tkn
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-01-19T00:43:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5105, "days_push": 1323, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1112, forks 83 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:37.956093+00:00)

## What it is
Terminal Keynote is a Ruby script for giving slide-based presentations directly in the terminal. Slides are written as Ruby code and rendered as plain text with ANSI colors and on-the-fly syntax highlighting via pygments.rb.

## Use cases
- give a conference talk from the terminal
- present code-heavy slides with syntax highlighting
- write slides in Ruby instead of PowerPoint
- create terminal-based keynote presentations
- display code snippets in a talk without leaving the shell

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight, text-based presentation tool for terminal-centric talks
- your slides are mostly code and you want live syntax highlighting
- you prefer authoring slides programmatically in Ruby

## When to avoid
- you need rich visuals, images, or animations in slides
- you want a polished, generalized presentation framework
- you do not work in Ruby or the terminal

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, developer-tools, templating
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: terminal-presentation, slides, ruby, presentation-tool, ansi-escape-sequences, syntax-highlighting, command-line

## Member repositories
- fxn/tkn (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:37.956093+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:42:43.242338+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fxn/tkn (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:37.956093+00:00, sha b203d6ee2b90)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.