Skip to content
Book a demo Try the demo MacWindows

AI in PlexiiSlides

Have AI build a deck from a description, add slides, redesign a slide, improve or shorten its text, suggest a theme and draft speaker notes.

All plansUpdated

PlexiiSlides has AI in two places:

  • The AI slides panel, opened with AI in the toolbar, works on whole slides: it builds a new deck from a description, adds slides to the end of the deck, or redesigns the slide you are on.
  • The AI Assistant in the side panel works on the text of the slide you are on: it improves, rewrites or shortens it, suggests a theme, and drafts speaker notes.

Either way, you see the result before anything in your deck changes.

Before you start

Build, extend or redesign slides

  1. Click AI in the toolbar. The AI slides panel opens above the slide.
  2. Choose a mode:
    • New deck builds a deck of 5 to 10 slides on a subject. AI picks one of the five themes for it and writes speaker notes for every slide.
    • Append writes 2 to 5 new slides for the end of the deck.
    • Redesign reworks the slide you are on.
  3. Describe what you want, such as "a 6-slide pitch for a scheduling app" or "two slides on next quarter's hiring plan".
  4. Click Generate, or press ⌘ Enter on a Mac or Ctrl Enter on Windows.
  5. Look over the preview: a thumbnail of each slide. Nothing in your deck has changed yet.
  6. Click Use deck, Add … slides (the button shows how many) or Apply redesign. To try again, click Regenerate. To leave without changing anything, click ×.

The slides AI writes have a title, up to six short bullet points and speaker notes, set out with the Title, Title + content or Section layout. Add pictures, charts and your own detail afterwards.

Redesign the slide you are on

When the slide has text, the Redesign mode offers Make this slide beautiful in the theme. Click it and AI redesigns the slide around the text that is on it now, in one step, and shows you the preview.

If you type your own description in Redesign mode instead, AI works from what you type, not from the slide. Include the points the slide should make.

Apply redesign replaces what is on the slide, and its background, with the new design.

Make added slides match

Slides from Append come in the theme AI chose for them, which may differ from yours. To make the whole deck match, choose your theme again in the inspector or on the Layout tab. See Themes and backgrounds.

The panel also opens from the side panel (More ideas > Generate or redesign a whole deck), and from the command palette as AI: generate or redesign slides.

Work on a slide's text with the AI Assistant

The AI Assistant sits at the top of the side panel, under Ask your workspace. It offers:

  • Improve slide: tightens the wording and sharpens the message.
  • Rewrite content: says the same thing in clearer words.
  • Shorten text: makes it shorter and punchier.
  • Design upgrade: suggests which of the five themes suits the slide, with a short reason.
  • Add speaker notes: drafts what to say while the slide is showing.
  • More ideas: Generate or redesign a whole deck, which opens the AI slides panel, and a box where you type your own instruction for the slide's text and click Run, or press ⌘ Enter on a Mac or Ctrl Enter on Windows.
  1. Open the slide and click an action. Working on it. shows while it runs.
  2. Read the result in the panel, under the name of the action.
  3. Use it:
    • Apply puts rewritten text into the slide's main text box, in place of its text.
    • Insert notes puts drafted notes into the slide's speaker notes, in place of what was there.
    • Apply theme switches the deck to the suggested theme.
    • Copy copies the result, so you can paste it where you like.

The assistant reads all the text on the slide, title included. After Apply, check the text box and remove anything the title already says.

Ask about your other work

Ask your workspace, above the AI Assistant, answers questions from your documents, sheets and notes across your desks, which helps when a slide needs a figure or a fact from elsewhere. See Ask your workspace from a spreadsheet, deck or design.

Common questions

The panel says no Anthropic API key is set. AI is not set up yet. Sign in to use PlexiDesk credits, or add your own key. See AI settings and Add your own API keys.

The design suggestion did not apply. If the suggestion does not name one of the five themes, a line above the slide says so. Pick a theme yourself on the Layout tab.

Can I undo an AI change? Yes. Click Undo in the toolbar, or press ⌘ Z on a Mac or Ctrl Z on Windows.

Does AI add pictures? No. AI writes the titles, points and notes. Add pictures with Image. See Text, shapes, images and tables on slides.

Still need help? Contact support at [email protected].