Keynote, Hermes & LLM Wiki
I thought I’d share this use case as it wouldn’t have been practical without some Hermes magic :)
Essentially, I fed hundreds of presentations into Hermes + LLM Wiki to help me outline new talks more easily. It’s not creating new talks, just helping me find, reuse and build on stuff I’ve created before. I can prepare a talk outline 4x faster & the outline is better than ever.
Background: I do lots of presentations for my work. Anywhere from 30-50 per year going back over 10 years… each presentation is custom for a specific event, but it draws on all my previous talks. A few talks have steadily evolved over time or are the same concepts applied to different platforms. All my content is trapped in keynote files, each file in a folder named for that client sorted by year.
Method: First I asked Hermes to extract all the content into a text format. The keynote file format is binary, so the best method turned out to be UI automation. Of the ~375 keynote files, 191 where unique enough to be extracted. Hermes each deck one by one exporting the slides to PDF (for archive) and HTML (for text).
Next Hermes extracted all the text from each slide deck. Applying some heuristics & trigram analysis to identify content and ignore decoration. Resulting in one file per presentation named for the client and date.
Hermes then analysed them all to provide summary statistics and initial topics. This took a few iterations.
To go deeper, Hermes then ingested all the files (plus transcripts of podcasts I’ve been on) into LLM-wiki which then generated the candidates concepts for me to review / merge & tidy up.
I use the wiki to create talk outlines. I tall with the clients to create a brief, match it up to topics in the wiki, the follow the source links back to the specific slides.
This wouldn’t haven been feasible without Hermes. Deeply impressed with it :)