danielochoa0620

I built Libreta because I was getting annoyed with how long it took Claude to do Excel work in the terminal, and how inconvenient it was to review in the Excel app. Plus it had issues running the formulas and no good way to get diffs. My thinking was to get spreadsheets to their plaintext essentials for agents to do the work, and set up an interface optimized for reviewing. Personal experience with Libreta so far has been pretty good, it's super fast and easier to audit. I've mostly tried it on basic models and personal spreadsheet work. Curious to see where this approach breaks down for others.

Oh good feedback, thanks. Cleaned that up

Oh man the masters and layout proliferation is the biggest pain.

If you can, I'd do a bare bones starting template with like Cover, section divider, and title only layouts. Lock in slide dimensions, fonts, colors. Then ask (and pray) people upload that instead of letting Claude work from scratch.

Even if everyone goes in a different direction, it's much easier to merge and conform styles if you're working on the same template with minimal placeholders.

Ideally you get a library of "best practice" slides that people use as a starting point, but realistically people love doing their thing. Key is to set yourself up for an easy cleanup.

Hah! That's also how I first learned about the zip trick with pptx. Had never considered it generalizes outside of OOXML files. I'll give it a try next time I'm poking around another file format

Thanks! Glad it was useful.