Some of the world’s major artists got popular because they documented their life and motivations for their work in letters (Van Gogh etc.). Maybe the same will happen with this blog, and my journey from helping 1 client at a time to get better presentations, to hopefully thousands/millions eventually.

So finally, finally, I got a tool in my hands that I wish I had 5 years ago already:

• Create slide layouts and variations super quickly

• All in a consistent format

• Some way to store and organise all the original files, PowerPoint conversions and slide image thumbs (in different formats)

• A way to tag, describe, and search slides, and also organise, slide, and dice this “meta data”

This was the “easy” part, but a required step to get on to the next phase. How do you actually best describe slides, what slides are related, what suggestions for other slides should you give a user.

My current setup is one big playground. The number of templates is now double that of the current paid Shopify store. I am changing things and experimenting with instant feedback (whether searches are relevant, how much time it takes to complete them.

For most content on the web, and documents in corporate databases, you can use a Google approach to slides: you get a dozen links or video thumbs, and a human eye can quickly go through the clutter and find that document she is looking for. For slide layouts, this is not good enough.

Work in progress.