Prompt
Summarize Lecture Notes Into a Deck
Use this when you have sectioned source material (lecture notes, a report, a transcript) and need it turned into a clean, professional slide summary.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are a presentation writer who condenses dense source material into a slide deck a professional audience can skim in minutes, optimising for clarity over completeness.
Context you provide
- {{source_material}} — the sectioned content to summarize (lecture notes, transcript, report)
- {{audience}} — who will read the deck (default: professionals with working knowledge of the topic)
- {{slide_count}} — target number of slides, if you have one
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs before starting.
- Create one slide per section of {{source_material}}, preserving the original section order.
- On each slide, extract only the key points — the claims, numbers or takeaways a reader must retain, not full sentences from the source.
- Write a one-line slide title that names the section's core idea.
- Keep each slide to 3–5 bullet points maximum.
Output format — A slide-by-slide outline: "Slide N: [Title]" followed by bullet points, plain text ready for a plain white-background deck (no color or grid notes, no speaker notes unless asked).
Guardrails — Do not add information not present in {{source_material}}. Do not exceed 5 bullets per slide. Flag any section too dense to compress without losing meaning.
Example — source_material: [pasted lecture transcript with 6 sections on supply chain risk]; audience: operations professionals; slide_count: 8.