# How to Make Slides in Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) > How to make NotebookLM slides in Gemini Notebook: pick 1 of 2 deck formats, revise with prompts, export to PowerPoint or PDF, and get it into Google Slides. By Juli · Published Oct 26, 2026 · https://www.kortex-notebooklm.com/blog/gemini-notebook-slides Got a presentation due and a notebook full of PDFs? Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) can draft the deck for you. Its Slide Deck tool turns your sources into designed slides, fixes single slides from plain-English instructions and downloads the result as a PDF or PowerPoint file. However, there's one gap: no button sends it straight to Google Slides. Here's the whole workflow, from the first prompt to a deck you can present, edit and share. > **Key Takeaways** > - Slide Decks come as a Detailed Deck or Presenter Slides, in short, default or long lengths. > - Turn on Review outline notes to check and correct the plan before any slide is drawn. > - Revisions ignore your sources, so check every revised slide. > - Download as PDF or .pptx, then open the .pptx in Google Slides. > - Slide Decks are for users over 18 ([Gemini Notebook Help](https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16757456?hl=en), 2026). ## Can Gemini Notebook create slides? Yes. Slide Decks are drawn by Google's Nano Banana Pro image model, working with the same "creative agents" behind Audio and Video Overviews ([Google](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/8-ways-to-make-the-most-out-of-slide-decks-in-notebooklm/), 2025). You'll find the option in the Studio panel, next to the other outputs. Two conditions apply. You need edit access to the notebook, and the feature is "only available to over 18 users" ([Gemini Notebook Help](https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16757456?hl=en), 2026). Similarly, Slide Decks work in the mobile app, though Google warns the app version "may have differences." Importantly, your material doesn't need to be polished. For example, Google suggests you "jot down key points, an outline or a stream-of-consciousness brainstorm" in a note, add it as a source, then ask for a full deck. Likewise, a rough draft from Google Slides works, and you can even upload handwritten notes. In other words, the deck can start from almost anything you can put in a notebook. New to notebooks? Our [beginner's guide to Gemini Notebook](/blog/how-to-use-gemini-notebook) covers adding sources. ## How do you make a slide deck in Gemini Notebook? Open a notebook with sources, then select Slide Deck in the Studio panel, or the pencil icon beside it to customize first. The deck builds in the background, and Google says it "may take multiple minutes" while you keep working (Gemini Notebook Help, 2026). Specifically, customizing comes down to 5 choices: format, language, length, sources and a prompt. Here are the steps: 1. **Open or create a notebook** and add your sources. 2. **Select the pencil icon** on the Slide Deck option in the Studio panel. 3. **Choose a format:** Detailed Deck or Presenter Slides. 4. **Pick an output language, a length and the sources:** short, default or long, from all your sources or a few. 5. **Write a prompt** that names the audience, style and focus. You can paste in an outline too. 6. **Turn on Review outline notes** if you want to check the plan before the slides are drawn. 7. **Select Generate now**, or Generate later to queue it if you're out of usage. For instance, Google's own sample prompt is a good model: "Create a deck for beginners using a bold and playful style with a focus on step-by-step instructions." Starting from scratch? A ready-made setup from our [Gemini Notebook templates](/blog/gemini-notebook-templates) list solves the blank-page problem. Subsequently, select the finished deck to open the viewer. Start slideshow presents it full screen; click or use the arrow keys to move, and press Esc to leave. Forgot what you asked for? The three-dot menu's View custom prompt shows the exact prompt behind the deck. ## How do you review the outline before the slides are drawn? Turn on the review step, and Gemini Notebook writes an outline you can correct before it renders a single slide. Google calls this co-creating a deck, and it works from the Studio panel or from the chat ([Gemini Notebook Help](https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16757456?hl=en), 2026). Here's the flow: 1. **Start it.** In the Studio panel, set up the deck as above and turn on Review outline notes before you select Generate now. Or type a request in the chat, such as "Make me a slide deck about [topic]". 2. **Steer it in the chat.** Gemini Notebook suggests topics to include, based on your sources. Once you confirm them, cards in the chat let you guide the content, visual style and format, and a Review toggle sits there too ([Google](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/co-create-slides-videos/), 2026). 3. **Wait for the outline.** It can take several minutes, and you can keep working meanwhile. 4. **Review it.** In the Studio panel, select Review next to the finished outline and type all your feedback at once, such as "open with an executive summary" or "swap slides three and four". 5. **Select Proceed.** The deck renders from the corrected outline. The outline is the cheapest place to fix a deck. Proceed is final, so the outline can't be refined after that, and every later change becomes a revision. Revisions, remember, ignore your sources and count against a quota. Fix the order, the scope or a missing summary there, and you won't spend a revision on it. Two things skip the step: choosing Generate later schedules the deck without an outline, and the quick path (Slide Deck, no toggle) builds it straight away. Google's announcement offers co-creation to all Gemini Notebook users, while its help page lists it for Google AI Ultra subscribers only. No Review toggle on your account? The quick path works the same either way. ## Should you pick Detailed Deck or Presenter Slides? The format decides who does the talking. A **Detailed Deck** is the text-rich option, which Google calls "perfect for emailing or reading on its own". **Presenter Slides** are the visual option, with "key talking points to support you while you speak," in Google's words. Both come in 3 lengths. Notably, learning research backs that split. Mayer's cognitive theory of multimedia learning includes a redundancy principle, which holds that "images and spoken words are better than images, spoken words and text". Nevertheless, a 2026 study of lectures at a UK medical school found students saw text-heavy slides 84.4% of the time. Text-heavy meant more than 10 words, and the median slide set held 1,531 words ([Le Blanc and Cooper, The Clinical Teacher](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12691884/), 2026). Therefore, if you'll be in the room, Presenter Slides keep the words in your mouth instead of on the screen. On the other hand, if the deck will travel without you, a Detailed Deck carries the explanation itself. | | Detailed Deck | Presenter Slides | |---|---|---| | Text on slides | Full text and details. | Key talking points. | | Works best when | People read it without you. | You present it live. | | Typical use | Email attachment, handout, pre-read. | Backdrop for a talk or class. | | Risk | Crowded slides on a projector. | Too thin if forwarded. | Need both? Make both. The Studio can store several outputs of the same type in one notebook ([Google](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/notebooklm-video-overviews-studio-upgrades/), 2025), so a handout and a talk deck can sit side by side. That said, keep your talking points in a notebook note so the Presenter Slides stay clean. Prefer narration to slides? A [Gemini Notebook Video Overview](/blog/gemini-notebook-video-overviews) turns the same sources into a narrated video instead. ## How do you edit individual slides? Open the deck and select Revise at the top, then type an instruction on each slide you want changed. Your edits queue under Pending Changes until you select Generate revised deck (Gemini Notebook Help, 2026). In addition, the same Revise view handles structure: - **Edit a slide:** change its text, swap the layout or update the visuals. - **Delete a slide:** hover over it, then select More and Delete slide. - **Restore a slide:** select More and Restore slide before you commit. - **Reorder the deck:** drag a thumbnail to a new position. In particular, Google notes that editing existing slides is faster than generating a new deck from scratch. However, the mobile app's help page says adding or removing slides isn't supported there, so do structural edits on the web. Two details should change how you revise. First, Google says "sources are not taken into account during revisions," so a revised slide can drift away from your material. Second, every revision creates an entirely new deck. Individual slide edits are unlimited, but the number of decks you can revise has a quota. Accordingly, use revisions for wording, layout and visuals, batch them into one pass, and fix facts by editing sources and regenerating. As a result, you spend one revision where a careless workflow might spend five. Rather type those revisions in Claude or ChatGPT? With Kortex MCP, included with Kortex Pro and Lifetime, your assistant can [revise chosen slides and export the deck from chat](/blog/gemini-notebook-studio-from-chat). It shows you which slides it will touch before anything changes. ## How do you export slides to PowerPoint or PDF? Open the three-dot menu next to the deck and choose Download PDF Document (.pdf) or Download PowerPoint (.pptx) (Gemini Notebook Help, 2026). One exception applies: decks built from a Play Books ebook may not download, depending on the publisher. In addition, you can share without a file. Share the notebook, and collaborators find the deck in their Studio panel. Alternatively, copy a link to the deck itself, which works once the notebook is shared with that person or open to anyone with the link. Public links are for consumer accounts only, and deleting the deck breaks the link. When we analyzed 1,451 Google autocomplete suggestions for these topics in October 2026, we found "notebooklm slides into editable powerpoint" and "notebooklm slides are not editable" among the searches. In fact, plenty of people want to edit a deck after export, so check what the downloaded file lets you change before you plan heavy edits. The deck is only one piece of a notebook, though. Our guide to [exporting from Gemini Notebook](/blog/export-gemini-notebook) covers sources, notes and chats. Making decks in several notebooks? 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## How do you get a Gemini Notebook deck into Google Slides? Go through PowerPoint. The help center lists only PDF and .pptx downloads, with no Google Slides option (Gemini Notebook Help, 2026). Consequently, download the .pptx and let Google Drive convert it, as the [Google Workspace Learning Center](https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/10665800?hl=en) describes: 1. Download the deck with Download PowerPoint (.pptx). 2. In Google Drive, select New, then File upload, and pick the file. 3. In the Upload complete window, select Show file location. 4. Right-click the file and choose Open with Google Slides. Google calls this importing and converting: it "creates a copy of your original file" in Slides format that you can edit in your browser (Google Workspace Learning Center, 2026). How much you can edit depends on what the downloaded file contains. Check the result slide by slide, too, since Google warns that Slide Decks "may contain visual or factual inaccuracies." Want a deck that's native to Google Slides from the start? Use the Gemini app instead. Notebooks sync between Gemini Notebook and the Gemini app ([Google](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/notebooks-gemini-notebooklm/), 2026), and Gemini can create Google Slides files straight from a chat ([Google](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/generate-files-in-gemini/), 2026). Open the notebook there and ask for a presentation. In other words, it's a new deck written from your sources, not a copy of your Slide Deck. ## Is there a slide deck limit or watermark? Yes to both, though the limit isn't a fixed number. Usage limits are compute-based and refresh every 5 hours until a weekly cap, and Google suggests deferring outputs like Slide Decks with Generate later ([Google](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/new-flexible-usage-limits/), 2026). Plus gets two times the standard limits, Pro four times and Ultra 5x or 20x Pro, and the bar under each Studio output shows what a deck will cost before you start ([Gemini Notebook Help](https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/17670842?hl=en), 2026). Revisions have a quota of their own on top. Meanwhile, Google's plan table offers watermark removal only on Pro and Ultra ([Gemini Notebook Help](https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16213268?hl=en), 2026). Even then, however, Google applies a visible watermark automatically if you live in India, South Korea or Vietnam. Pro and Ultra subscribers control the mark with the Visible watermarking toggle in the menu under their profile picture. In addition, an invisible SynthID watermark stays either way. Google embeds it in everything Gemini Notebook makes with Veo, Omni or Nano Banana, and Slide Decks run on Nano Banana Pro. No Pro plan? Here are [three honest ways to get a watermark-free deck](/blog/gemini-notebook-watermark). Here's how the plans compare: | Plan | Watermark removal | Usage limit | |---|---|---| | Standard (free) | No. | Standard limits. | | Plus | No. | Two times standard. | | Pro | Yes. | Four times standard. | | Ultra | Yes. | 5x or 20x Pro. | Our guide to [Gemini Notebook usage limits](/blog/gemini-notebook-usage-limits) explains the meter, and the [Plus, Pro and Ultra comparison](/blog/gemini-notebook-plans) shows what each plan adds. ## How does Kortex help you build better decks? A deck is only as good as the notebook behind it. **Kortex** is a free Chrome extension that fills that notebook faster, and its users have run 105,000+ imports (Kortex, 2026). The Import button inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity sends a whole chat to a notebook, with prompts and replies labelled. Found a useful paragraph on the web? Right-click the selected text to send it to a notebook with the page link and date. Once a deck prompt works, save it. We built Kortex's prompt library to keep prompts in folders, with favorites and tags. The free plan keeps 10. In contrast, Pro keeps unlimited prompts at $9.99 a month, or $4.92 a month billed yearly ([Kortex pricing](/#pricing), 2026). Additionally, after the talk you can export the chat where you drafted your speaker notes as Markdown, text, PDF or JSON. Next deck due? Start by filling its notebook. Teachers, in particular, are a big part of this. When we analyzed 776 Kortex MCP waitlist answers from September and October 2026, 38 people described teaching and course prep. One wanted to "turn that directly into lecture slide outlines for clinical pharmacy CME/training." Kortex MCP is included with Kortex Pro and Lifetime.

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## Frequently asked questions ### Can Gemini Notebook create slides? Yes. The Slide Deck option in the Studio panel turns a notebook's sources into a designed presentation in the background, which can take several minutes. You pick Detailed Deck or Presenter Slides, an output language and a short, default or long length. You need edit access to the notebook, and Slide Decks are only available to users over 18. ### How do I export Gemini Notebook slides to Google Slides? There's no direct Google Slides export. Download the deck as a PowerPoint (.pptx) file from its three-dot menu, upload it to Google Drive, then right-click it and choose Open with Google Slides. Google describes this as importing and converting, which creates a copy in Slides format. ### Why don't slide revisions use my sources? Google's help center says sources aren't taken into account during revisions. A revision works from your instruction alone, so it can fix wording, layout and visuals but can't check facts. Put all your changes into 1 revision, and fix factual errors by updating the sources and generating a fresh deck. ### Do Gemini Notebook slides have a watermark? Google's plan table offers visible watermark removal only on Pro and Ultra, so it stays on the free and Plus plans. Pro and Ultra subscribers use the Visible watermarking toggle, except in India, South Korea and Vietnam, where the mark is applied automatically. Slide Decks are drawn with Nano Banana Pro, so they also carry Google's invisible SynthID watermark. ### What is the Gemini Notebook slide deck limit? Google doesn't publish a fixed number. Usage is compute-based and refreshes every 5 hours until a weekly cap, with two times the standard limits on Plus and four times on Pro. Google also caps how many decks you can revise, so batch your slide edits into one revision. ### Can Gemini Notebook make a PowerPoint presentation? Yes, as a download. Gemini Notebook builds the deck as a Slide Deck, then its three-dot menu offers Download PowerPoint (.pptx) next to Download PDF Document (.pdf). Decks built from a Play Books ebook may not download, depending on the publisher. --- *Editorial note: fact-checked against the official help pages and docs linked above on October 26, 2026. Spotted something out of date? [Contact us](/support) and we will fix it, or read more [about Kortex](/about).*