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Gamma: Turn Rough Meeting Notes into a Deck in 5 Steps

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By Robert Breen · Published · From the free lesson A Presentation from Your Notes in 5 Minutes (Gamma)

A visual guide to Gamma: paste rough notes, let it condense them into a deck, change a slide by chatting with Agent, then export to PowerPoint and PDF.

  1. Gamma. Rough notes in, a finished deck out. A quarterly review for leadership on Thursday and one page of notes. A made-up operations manager at Brightwater. 5 steps.
    Slide 1 of 7
  2. Step 1. Paste your notes. Use the classic generator and choose Paste in text. Don’t tidy the notes first: abbreviations and half sentences are fine, as long as the numbers are right. Screenshot: Gamma Paste in screen with rough Q3 review notes and Presentation selected.
    Slide 2 of 7
  3. Step 2. Condense and set the look. Summarize tightens rough notes. Give the title card a full name, pick a theme, set Amount of text to Concise and choose Don’t add images. Screenshot: Gamma outline with seven cards, Condense chosen, the Tranquil theme and brief text.
    Slide 3 of 7
  4. Step 3. Change a slide by chatting. Open Agent, name the slide and say what you want, such as a timeline with one month per step. You don’t need to select anything first. Screenshot: Gamma editor with the Agent chat open and the Q4 plan bullets selected.
    Slide 4 of 7
  5. Step 4. Compare, then fix by hand. Click Original to see the slide before the change and Modified to switch back. Then check the numbers and reword a line by hand, such as the backlog. Screenshot: Agent turned the Q4 bullets into a three-step timeline, with Original and Modified.
    Slide 5 of 7
  6. Step 5. Export it. Choose Export, then Export to PowerPoint and Export to PDF. Open the PowerPoint once: cards don’t always map one to one onto slides. The PDF keeps the design exactly. Screenshot: Gamma Export panel with Export to PDF and Export to PowerPoint.
    Slide 6 of 7
  7. Make the deck free in a practice copy of Gamma. Lesson: A presentation from your notes in 5 minutes (Gamma), about 9 minutes. Free at learn.ynteractive.com.
    Slide 7 of 7

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A quarterly review for leadership on Thursday and one page of notes. A made-up operations manager at Brightwater. 5 steps.

Step by step

  1. Paste your notes

    Use the classic generator and choose Paste in text. Don’t tidy the notes first: abbreviations and half sentences are fine, as long as the numbers are right.

  2. Condense and set the look

    Summarize tightens rough notes. Give the title card a full name, pick a theme, set Amount of text to Concise and choose Don’t add images.

  3. Change a slide by chatting

    Open Agent, name the slide and say what you want, such as a timeline with one month per step. You don’t need to select anything first.

  4. Compare, then fix by hand

    Click Original to see the slide before the change and Modified to switch back. Then check the numbers and reword a line by hand, such as the backlog.

  5. Export it

    Choose Export, then Export to PowerPoint and Export to PDF. Open the PowerPoint once: cards don’t always map one to one onto slides. The PDF keeps the design exactly.

Businesses and people in the examples are made up (Brightwater Facilities Group is a made-up business). The steps, screens and wording come from the free lesson and the Stepthrough glossary and prompt library.

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A Presentation from Your Notes in 5 Minutes (Gamma). Paste rough meeting notes into Gamma, pick a theme, fix one slide by chatting with its AI, and export the deck to PowerPoint and PDF. You do every step yourself in a practice copy of Gamma, it checks your work as you go, and “Do it for me” finishes any step you get stuck on. Free, and nothing touches your real accounts.

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