Chronicle 2.0 - AI presentations without the AI slop
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Chronicle is your AI-powered design partner for presentations. Turn notes, prompts, or existing decks into beautiful, on-brand slides in minutes. It asks a few questions, builds an impressive first draft, and lets you refine slides through conversation.
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Trufflow
I really like how Chronicle is focused on how information flows throughout the deck. Especially since a slidedeck is meant to tell a story.
Are there ways to give further context to Chronicle such as the specific target audience, tone, or even the type of narrative/story I want my slides to convey? For example, "a startup pitch deck that is meant to be playful but concise and to the point for investors"
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@lienchueh You’re touching on something we're actively working on! When you start creating a deck with Chronicle AI, the agent asks you to pick a narrative style if there isn't one already. You can also just include this in your initial prompt, and it should be picked up.
Would love your thoughts on how we can make this better once you've had a chance to try it out!
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@lienchueh @harrispjose thanks for the support! I like the idea of asking about the tone. we're trying to find the balance between asking too many upfront questions, and getting you to see a first draft. Would love to know what you think!
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@lienchueh Absolutely! you can curate the storyline with Chronicle at the start of every project. There, you can choose to narrate your story, add cues for target audience and tone. Muse will research and ask for your input simultaneously creating the slides.
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@lienchueh Just for kicks, I tried your prompt with an "Airbnb for babysitters" example, here's what I got:
Here's the first draft of what Muse gave me. This just took less than 5 minutes to generate, and you can refine this quite a bit more.
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@lienchueh @vishnugopal so good!
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@lienchueh Love that! You can always natural language prompt and converse with Muse, our AI slide design agent!
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So awesome to get this out today. I love that we have visual AI with taste now!
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@vishnugopal Huge day Vishnu!! This has been such a long time coming 🙌 the world's gonna love it
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@vishnugopal Honestly a huge push from the team. Business storytelling 🤝 taste
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@vishnugopal The only thing that matters the most in today's AI tech.
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@vishnugopal loved working on this launch with you! now the real work begins haha!
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Super excited for this! Grateful to everyone who shared feedback since our previous launch - a lot of it directly shaped what you see today. So lucky to be a part of this team ♥️
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@sameekshatrivedi It's been so fun 👏❤️
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@sameekshatrivedi yes, today is big! Really excited for everyone to finally try Chronicle 2.0. All the feedback we received has been instrumental for this update
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@sameekshatrivedi its been so great to work with you on this Sam!
Documentation.AI
How does it differ from @Google Mixboard 2.0?
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@roopreddy Chronicle is a purpose-built, AI-first presentation platform designed for professional teams, think polished board decks, investor updates, and sales deck, with features like text-to-slides, brand kits, real-time collaboration, and designer-quality layout automation.
Google Mixboard 2.0, by contrast, is still an experimental Google Labs tool centered on visual brainstorming and mood-boarding, with slide export added as a secondary feature in its 2.0 update.
If you need repeatable, boardroom-ready decks, Chronicle is the more serious and mature choice; Mixboard is better suited for casual ideation that occasionally needs to be shared.
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@roopreddy We don't have Mixboard in there, but you can see a bunch of comparisons here: https://chroniclehq.com/alternative-presentation-tools-to-powerpoint
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Really excited to see the all new Chronicle out in the world today, this team genuinely wants to build a generational storytelling product.
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@tinikapas And huge credit to you for catching all the bugs before we ever go live! 😅
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@tinikapas loved working with you - your ability to catch small UI discrepancies is second to maybe Mayuresh haha
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This launch is very special for the team. Months of work behind the scenes and years of data and learning finally shaping the way Chronicle is today. Huge shoutout to our engineering team, Claire and Elliot. I am in love with the new version. Can't wait for the world to experience this. 🔥✨
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@oyeabhijit In love with it +1!!
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@oyeabhijit This is just the beginning Abhijit!! You, Claire and Elliot have been absolute rockstars 🔥 And honestly the whole engineering team deserves so much credit for this one. So excited for the world to finally see it ✨
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@tejgw Agree! Goal is to superpower Chronicle. This is just the beginning.
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@oyeabhijit love working with you! great work on the assets for the launch they look 🔥
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Hey Product Hunt
Mayuresh here 👋
Just wanted to jump in and say a massive thank you to this community. The previous launch was my first ever product launch yet - seeing the love and support was really special.
In the last few months, we have seen 200K+ users doing sales, proposals, research reports, QBRs, MBRs, all hands and more with Chronicle! We are back with tons of improvements and some big upgrades.
1. We have built a whole new generation experience with AI that works like you are used to (digests files, looks up, goes back and forth to iterate with you). We rebuilt this ground up to make sure it is truly powerful.
2. We have added tons of small features that give you speed and customisability, made overall editing easier and faster (e.g. gridlines, better colours, better themes, tidy up options)
3. Export to PPT is in :) its a first cut - we will continue improving fidelity. There's more export options too.
4. We built our own charts - fun story @praveendinesh shipped this literally in 2 days.
A lot of the improvements in Chronicle 2.0 came directly from all your feedback, so please keep it coming. We read everything.
Excited to hear what you think!
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The charts feature was a fun (and fast) build. Curious to hear from everyone - what kinds of charts or interactions would make your life easier. We’re actively looking to expand this.
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@praveendinesh @mayuresh_patole Only just the beginning! 🚀
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@praveendinesh @mayuresh_patole lets go! loving seeing all this amazing feedback from the community <3
How does Chronicle’s widget-based architecture ensure that layout integrity and interactive elements remain intact when exporting to static or legacy formats like PPTX and PDF, and does it allow for the ingestion of existing corporate master slides to maintain strict brand compliance?
@mordrag Great question.
When exporting to PPTX, widgets are converted into native PowerPoint elements while preserving layout, position, and size. For PDF exports, the conversion ensures the output is pixel-identical to what you see on screen. Neither PPTX nor PDF support advanced interactivity but we ensure that all links remain clickable. In the case of PPTX, rich text is exported natively (and remains editable), some video embeds are playable directly within PowerPoint, and all embeds remain clickable.
Brand consistency in exported decks is driven by colors, fonts, and layout patterns which teams can customize and lock in on Chronicle. Currently, we don't support ingesting external PPTX master templates - we're happy to hear more on your use case as we look to actively improve our export capabilities.
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@mordrag great question! @niranjan_u has made a lot of our widgets fully interactive in ppt (as much as possible). We're working on adding even more support - so happy to get this feature out for our users!
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@mordrag Give it a go and let us know what you think!
Launch day!! Really excited for people to finally try Chronicle.
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@ronak_jagdale Let's go!
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@ronak_jagdale yes! your attention to detail won't go un-missed!
Really excited to see the all new Chronicle out in the world today, this team genuinely wants to build a generational storytelling product. Really happy and proud to be part of a super talented and passionate team of people.
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@niranjan_u Your contributions to export to PPT, taking on such a huge project is impressive. Probably our most requested feature!
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@niranjan_u love working on this with you!