There’s a lot of choices here. I’d like to use something like this to set up a mini-course on Substack. I’ll have (economic) data in charts. Do you think Chronicle is the best option?
For the use-case you’re referencing, Nikki, I’d actually more likely recommend Beautiful.ai or even Canva (which can now include Flourish data visualizations, including various kinds of 📈 charts) or other tools for micro courses like 7Taps but you could also create charts with whatever tool and then embed them in Chronicle, so that could work as well. https://wondertools.substack.com/p/7taps
I've used/use gamma, canva, beautiful, and tome. I've got to say Chronicle for a slide deck is terrible at present. Not sure why you'd recommend it. Truly bad. Shows a lack of any awareness of the necessary elements and the output is not useable.
Hi Bob, I appreciate your interest and your comment. I'm curious to learn more about which necessary elements you mean. I'd be interested in hearing more about your experience. If you mean the AI output is not useable, I would agree that generally the AI output of any of these slide services requires extensive editing and re-thinking, which is why I generally prefer to start from scratch with these slide tools.
I recommend exploring Chronicle in this post because I actually have found it quite useful, for example for creating the sponsor deck I linked to in the post. And I included those other examples of presentations created with Chronicle to illustrate a variety of other kinds of strong decks people can create with it. There are certainly features missing and as a beta product there are several areas for improvement, including the lack of templates, the limited widgets, the overwhelming "remix" option drawer, the limited photo sourcing and editing elements, and others noted in the post. But people who like fine-grain control of the look of their slides will appreciate the kinds of polished decks that Chronicle enables. And from my perspective, Chronicle is just one of several strong options, including those noted in the latter part of the post. In any case, thanks again for your interest in the subject and for sharing your own perspective.
There’s a lot of choices here. I’d like to use something like this to set up a mini-course on Substack. I’ll have (economic) data in charts. Do you think Chronicle is the best option?
For the use-case you’re referencing, Nikki, I’d actually more likely recommend Beautiful.ai or even Canva (which can now include Flourish data visualizations, including various kinds of 📈 charts) or other tools for micro courses like 7Taps but you could also create charts with whatever tool and then embed them in Chronicle, so that could work as well. https://wondertools.substack.com/p/7taps
Thanks for the information!
I've used/use gamma, canva, beautiful, and tome. I've got to say Chronicle for a slide deck is terrible at present. Not sure why you'd recommend it. Truly bad. Shows a lack of any awareness of the necessary elements and the output is not useable.
Hi Bob, I appreciate your interest and your comment. I'm curious to learn more about which necessary elements you mean. I'd be interested in hearing more about your experience. If you mean the AI output is not useable, I would agree that generally the AI output of any of these slide services requires extensive editing and re-thinking, which is why I generally prefer to start from scratch with these slide tools.
I recommend exploring Chronicle in this post because I actually have found it quite useful, for example for creating the sponsor deck I linked to in the post. And I included those other examples of presentations created with Chronicle to illustrate a variety of other kinds of strong decks people can create with it. There are certainly features missing and as a beta product there are several areas for improvement, including the lack of templates, the limited widgets, the overwhelming "remix" option drawer, the limited photo sourcing and editing elements, and others noted in the post. But people who like fine-grain control of the look of their slides will appreciate the kinds of polished decks that Chronicle enables. And from my perspective, Chronicle is just one of several strong options, including those noted in the latter part of the post. In any case, thanks again for your interest in the subject and for sharing your own perspective.