Detailed or Presenter?
Gemini Notebook can take one Source or a group of Sources and create a Presentation. The first key decision is the presentation type, based on how you'll use it:
- Detailed: More writing and detail on the slides. Suitable if you'll send it to someone to read on their own.
- Presenter: A title and points to support you as you speak, without turning the slide into a written page.
Next, set the language, length, and sources. If you've organized your work with Labels, select the whole group instead of choosing files individually.
A good-looking presentation or one with your identity?
For a suitable, quick result, describe the colors, audience, and overall feel: formal or relaxed, educational or marketing. If you have a visual identity or a Reference you like, communicate its appearance to the tool more precisely.
Upload the reference to Gemini or ChatGPT and ask it to analyze the layout, colors, fonts, backgrounds, and image use. Take that description into Gemini Notebook.
If the presentation is in Arabic, emphasize right-to-left text and design. The reference description might otherwise follow an English Layout.
This is a ready-to-use example. Copy it as is, or adapt the text to your work.
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Content first, then design
If you select ten Sources and immediately click Slide Deck, Gemini Notebook has to decide the number of slides and what goes on each. Repeat the process and you might get 15 Slides once, 10 another time, or a focus on a different section.
For an important presentation, split the work into two steps. Prepare slide content first: the first slide introduces the topic, the second covers a point, and the third presents a particular example.
Review the order, remove repetition, add missing examples, and adjust crowded slides. Do this in Chat inside the notebook or in any tool you're comfortable with.
Once the content is settled, save the final version as a source and request a Slide Deck from it. The appearance may vary between attempts, but the content structure stays under your control.
Creating a good-looking presentation once is easy, but achieving the same standard every time needs a clear Workflow.
The same feature works for a Carousel
Slide Deck isn't just for traditional Presentations. For a series of vertical social media designs, specify 9:16 Vertical in the design description and define each slide's role. The same tool can create a presentation for a screen or a Carousel for a phone, depending on dimensions and use.
Don't split a long paragraph across images and call it a Carousel. Each slide needs a role: cover, idea, example, comparison, step, or takeaway. Here too, preparing content first matters more than appearance.
Slides are generated as images
Each Slide is a complete design, rather than a traditional PowerPoint with separate Text Boxes. That's why edits use Revise: select a slide, request a change to its background, text, image, or a specific element, then use Generate Revise.
Delete a slide, change slide order, or save a Slide you like as an image. If you need broader manual editing afterward, continue in Canva.
Make sure you review every slide, because design quality doesn't guarantee that all text or information in the image is correct.
Turn sources into an Infographic
An Infographic rearranges information visually. Before generating it, choose settings that suit where you'll use it:
- Language: The text language inside the design.
- Orientation: Square, Portrait, or Landscape.
- Style: Such as Sketch, Anime, or Auto Select, depending on the available options.
- Level of Detail: Simple, Balanced, or Detailed.
- Sources: A Source, group, or Label related to the topic.
More detail isn't always better. Long Text inside an image increases the chance of distorted words and makes the design crowded. For quick review, a simple or medium level of detail will usually be clearer.
Describe the look you want
If you like an Infographic, analyze it as you would a presentation: colors, background, section order, icons, illustrations, and headings. Use the description in Custom Prompt to bring the result closer to what you have in mind. The reference sets the direction, but the content remains yours and the final design still needs your review.
An Infographic is useful as a Visual Summary after a lecture, or for showing a Workflow, comparison, or connected parts. A teacher can give students a visual summary, and a course creator can attach a design to each Lecture for learners to revisit during review.
Review the appearance and information
- Define one Topic, the audience, and where you'll use it.
- Choose sources that are actually related to it.
- Prepare the content if accuracy and order matter.
- Set dimensions, orientation, and Style.
- Review the Arabic text, numbers, and information after the design is generated.
- Use Revise for one clear, specific edit at a time.
- Export the right version for where you'll use it.
Create a presentation and Infographic on the same topic
- Choose one Topic from the notebook's sources.
- Prepare content for 6 to 8 slides and review it before design.
- Create a Slide Deck from the final content and edit one slide using Revise.
- Create an Infographic summarizing the same topic with a medium level of detail.
- Review the text and information, and decide which output fits each use.
In the next lecture, we'll explore regular and interactive Reports, and how the same sources can become a written report or a journey with several content types.
