# Turn a text into slides

> Changing editor family isn’t adapting: the AI redistributes the message, and a new post is born beside the old one.

Updated 2026-09-18

**Adapting** means staying in the same family: slides to slides, text to text. **Converting** means crossing from one family to the other: a thread becomes a carousel, a carousel becomes a text post. The work is not the same, which is why the app keeps two distinct menu entries.

## The gesture

From the text editor, the **Post format** menu → **Convert to a carousel…**
From the slides editor, the **Post format** menu → **Convert to a thread or text post…**
From the **Posts** gallery, the same pair in a card’s **More actions** menu.

> **There is no video conversion**
>
> The video editor isn’t here yet: any format that would use it shows “Coming soon: video editor” and can serve neither as source nor as target.

## Text to slides

The window states what it is about to do: “The AI spreads the message across slides: a cover, one idea per slide, a call to action. The original stays unchanged.”

1. **Pick the target**

   Platform, then slide format: carousel, image, story or pin.

2. **Set the structure and the number of ideas**

   **Structure** carries over the theme of the source text; **Number of ideas** sets the length, and the app repeats the target’s limit: “8 slides in total · Instagram accepts 20”.

3. **Decide about images**

   **Slide images** offers **None**, **With image** or **All slides**. Then **Generate images now**: checked, they run in the background and their cost is included in the estimate; unchecked, “Image descriptions are written; you’ll start the images from the editor.”

4. **Add your instructions, then create**

   **Instructions** takes an angle, a tone, words to avoid. The **What will be created** preview lists the planned slides one by one, with the text cost and the image cost shown separately.

> **Images that belong together**
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> The **Consistent images** option lets the first image guide the rest (“included in the estimate”). Without it, “Each image is generated on its own, shared style only”.

## Slides to text

The other direction exists too: “The AI rewrites the slide content as text for X. The original stays unchanged.” The target is a text post, a thread or a poll. **Number of posts in the thread** sets the length — the app notes that “4 to 7 get read to the end” — and **Reuse the image** places a slide image on the posts it creates.

## What is kept, what is left out

The intent travels: a “Step by step” thread becomes a “Step by step” carousel, a “Story thread” becomes a “Story”. A poll keeps its question, options and duration when the target accepts one; otherwise, “No poll here: the post asks the question and lists the options.”

And whatever doesn’t fit is **said out loud**. After creation, the window shows **Left out:** followed by what the model dropped to fit the target format. It is the opposite of a silent truncation.

> **Watch out**
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> As with an adaptation, a converted post arrives as a **Draft**, linked to its source by a “Converted from…” line. Read it over: a successful conversion is still a first draft.

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Source: https://joli.studio/en/guide/turn-a-text-into-slides/