SlideWell 0.2.0

The well you draw slides and images from. Companion to TalkWeaver. First public build.

Highlights

• Search your whole archive — slide text and image OCR across every PowerPoint you've extracted; browse three ways: Slides, Images, Decks (by title slide).
• Image well + screenshot/video triage — point it at a folder (e.g. OneDrive), scan recursively, search the OCR text, keep the ones worth reusing and dismiss the rest. Decisions are remembered by content, so the next pass only shows what's new. Short videos get a poster + inline playback.
• Reuse, fast — copy a slide's image as WebP (straight into TalkWeaver) or PNG, or its text, structure, or reference; open any slide in the context of its whole presentation.
• Keyboard-first (⌘K command palette, arrow nav, a shortcut for everything) and entirely local — your files never leave your machine.
• Settings → Requirements shows, live, which external tools are installed and what each is for.

Requirements

SlideWell leans on a few external tools — the ppt-archive engine, Python (for import), ffmpeg (video), and optionally LibreOffice + Poppler (slide-render thumbnails). It degrades gracefully: anything missing just disables that one feature. See REQUIREMENTS.md and the in-app Settings panel.

Install (macOS · Apple Silicon)

Open the .dmg and drag SlideWell to Applications. It isn't Apple-notarised yet, so on first launch right-click the app → Open (or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/SlideWell.app").