Features

PowerPoint import

You do not have to start from scratch. TalkWeaver opens PowerPoint files and turns their slides into outline slides you can edit.

Import a deck

Open a PowerPoint file in TalkWeaver. Its slide structure and embedded videos are kept.

Pick and map slides

Select the slides you want and preview them. Then map each one to a TalkWeaver layout before you add it to a talk.

This happens in the TalkWeaver Importer, which opens from the Tools menu.

The TalkWeaver Importer after importing a demo PowerPoint: the slides listed on the left, a preview of the selected slide in the List layout, its Markdown with speaker notes, and the layout settings on the right. — The Importer with a demo deck. The original slide picture needs LibreOffice, which was not used for this screenshot.

Reuse slides between talks

Slides you insert from another talk keep their images and videos.

Slide search covers the text inside images as well as the slide text, so slides with scanned or photographed text can be found. Searching text in images needs macOS.

Tools for PowerPoint

The TalkWeaver Importer converts decks inside TalkWeaver. TalkWeaver PPT Extractor is the same Importer as a separate app, for converting decks without opening TalkWeaver.