The prompt I use to turn my messy meeting notes into a presentation outline that actually has an arc

When you feed rough notes to a model and ask for slides, it just chops the notes into bullet points, one note per slide. You get a deck with no argument, just a transcript with borders. This makes it build a narrative spine first, then map slides onto it. Here are my raw meeting notes: [PASTE] Audience for the presentation: [WHO] and what they need to decide or do after. Step 1: From these notes, state the one thing this presentation needs the audience to walk away believing. Step 2: Lay out 5 to 8 beats that get them there: where they are now, the problem, why it matters to them, the shift, what it means, the ask. Step 3: For each beat, give a slide title (a claim, not a topic) and 2 to 3 supporting lines from my notes. Do not use a note that does not support a beat. Tell me which notes you dropped and why. The part that fixes most decks is "a slide title that is a claim, not a topic." "Q3 Results" is a topic. "Q3 missed on one metric we can fix by Friday" is a claim, and a deck of claims reads like an argument. Making it report which notes it dropped keeps it honest instead of padding weak slides. I still hand-tune the order after, but it gets me 80% of the way from notes to something presentable. How do others handle the "too many notes, not enough story" problem? submitted by /u/No-Recognition3089 [link] [comments]