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How to turn rough notes into a good slide deck

A deck is an argument in order. Get the order right and the slides follow.

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Write the one-sentence point

If your audience remembers one thing, what is it? Put that on the final slide and build backwards.

Three to five sections

Group your notes into a handful of sections: the problem, what you found or propose, the evidence, and what happens next. Each section gets a few slides at most.

One idea per slide

A slide title should read like a sentence that states the point of that slide. Keep bullets short and move detail to speaker notes.

Use AI for the first draft

Give a deck generator your notes and a topic, then edit hard: fix facts, cut filler and make each title say something.

Rehearse once

Read it aloud with a timer. If a slide takes more than a minute or two, split it.

In Keplar

The slideshow creator (Plus and Pro) writes titles, bullets, speaker notes and an image idea per slide from a topic, outline or notes, and exports to PowerPoint or PDF. Image ideas are text placeholders.

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