History

Story-board was conceived from frustration with beamer, and not liking any of the alternatives.

For conference presentations, I use PowerPoint or Keynote. They have support for animation, but no scripting.

For classroom presentations, I use beamer. Again, lack of (real) scripting, and lack of first-class objects, was frustrating me. I spend much of my time presenting and discussing code fragments, and the lack of support here, other that just rendering text, was disappointing.

I attempted to use pandoc for a semester, which presented via JavaScript. I found myself doing to much layout hacking, missing the point of using markup to start with, and by the end of the semester, I had reverted back to beamer.

After developing blank-canvas, an API for drawing on the canvas, slide presentation was an obvious next step.

Hence, story-board.