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Pondering SlideMagic 5.0

February 7, 2026 · by Jan Schultink
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I had a backlog of feature improvement for SlideMagic in the back of my mind for a long time (SlideMagic 4.0). Started working on it, but never pushed them to a final end product. I am actually glad I didn’t. The path I was going down on was a “hand-held” guidance of AI combined with a dramatically improved graphical user interface. The development of AI models have made this approach obsolete.

i am starting now to tweak and customize the recently released knowledge workflow productivity tools so they work for me. Strangely enough, my decision to build SlideMagic 2.0 as a desktop app with local file access, will come in handy now to build a tool that wraps the raw engine and makes the underlying engine accessible to the average user.

Let’s see where this goes.

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