How to turn your notes into revision slides with AI

• Your notes. Typed notes you can paste work best. In AI Slides you can also attach up to 6 files: PDF, Word (.docx), plain text or Markdown, or photos of handwritten pages when the chosen model can read pictures. Notes already in your AI Docs library can be picked with From a document.
• The scope. Which part of the course, which level, and what kind of questions come up. One topic per deck keeps the slides focused.
• A way to revise. On screen with the slideshow, on your phone, or printed. Decide before you start, because it changes how much text a slide should carry.

Writing the outline and designing the slides is charged in credits at the chosen model’s price per message. A failed or empty answer costs nothing. Free accounts get 15 credits every day on the models marked free.

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   Step 1: Start the deck

   Open AI Slides and type your request in the box at the top, or ask in a chat: “Make revision slides from these notes on photosynthesis.” Both make the same deck with the same editor behind it.

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   Step 2: Add your notes

   Paste them under your request, or attach the files, or choose From a document to build the deck from a document in your library. Say who the slides are for and what they must cover.

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   Step 3: Choose the size and length

   Pick 16:9 or 4:3, and a number of slides from 3 to 30, or Auto to let the AI decide. Choose whether AI pictures go on no slides, key slides or most slides. Then press Generate outline. In a chat, the outline appears on a card in the conversation instead.

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   Step 4: Check the outline against your notes

   Each slide shows its title, layout, points, picture idea and speaker notes. Correct any fact that doesn’t match your notes, delete slides you don’t need, move them up or down and add your own. It saves as you type. Nothing has been designed yet, so this is the cheapest place to fix things.

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   Step 5: Turn points into questions

   Rewrite a slide’s points as a question (“What are the two stages of photosynthesis?”) and put the answer in that slide’s notes. Layouts such as Comparison, Timeline and Process suit topics with two sides, dates or stages.

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   Step 6: Describe the look

   The Look field says the colours, fonts and decoration the AI designs in. For revision, “plain white background, large dark text, one blue accent” reads well on any screen.

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   Step 7: Design the slides

   Press Design slides in AI Slides (the button says how many), or Create presentation on the chat card. The slides are designed a few at a time, and you can watch them arrive. A chat card also has Open in AI Slides, to keep working in the editor.

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   Step 8: Fix single slides by asking

   Under the slide, ask for a change to that slide or to every slide: “Shorter words”, “Make this a timeline.” Select part of a slide to change only that part. Each AI change is one step you can undo.

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   Step 9: Revise with them

   Present the deck as a slideshow and answer each question before you look at the notes. The presenter view shows the notes beside the slide. You can download the deck as PowerPoint (.pptx) with its notes, as a PDF to print, or as pictures of the slides.

• Set the shape of the deck: “Make 12 revision slides on the causes of the First World War from these notes, one cause per slide, with a question on each slide and the answer in the notes.”
• Keep it to your course: “Use only the facts in my notes. Don’t add anything they don’t say.”
• Ask for the layouts that help memory: “Add a timeline slide of the key dates” or “Turn slide 5 into a comparison of mitosis and meiosis.”
• End with a test: “Finish with a quiz slide of five short questions, with the answers in its notes.”
• Write for your level: “For a 15-year-old revising for a science exam, in simple words.”
• With web search on, the AI can look things up while it writes. Still check anything it adds against what your course teaches.

• One deck for everything. A deck per topic is easier to check and to revise from than one long deck.
• Designing before checking. The AI can misread a point or explain something differently from your teacher. Fix it in the outline, before the slides are designed.
• Too many words. If a slide needs a paragraph, it is two slides, or the detail belongs in its notes.
• Only reading the slides. Reading feels like revising, but answering a question before you see the answer is what helps you remember.
• Pictures on every slide. Each AI picture costs its picture model’s price. Keep them for slides where a picture explains something, such as a labelled process.

This is general study advice, not a rule of the app. If a topic needs more than about 25 slides, it is usually two topics: split it into two decks and revise them on different days.