Presentations

Presentations is MainBranch's slide editor. You start with a prompt — or optionally a few source documents — and the tool generates a full deck of slides. From there you can edit, restyle, and present.

Creating a presentation

From Tools → Presentations, click New presentation. The creation wizard has two steps.

1. Describe what you want

Be specific about audience, length, and tone. For example:

Quarterly business review for Q4. Cover revenue growth, top customer wins, key metrics, lessons learned, and our priorities for next quarter. Aim for around 12 slides, professional tone.

2. (Optional) Add source documents

Drop in PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint files, Excel files, or text — from your computer or from your Vault. The generator uses them as factual context so your slides reflect real numbers and names, not hallucinations.

Source documents are optional; you can also create from prompt alone.

Click Create presentation to start generation. You'll see a Generating storyline phase, then a list of slides expanding one at a time as each is generated.

The slide editor

When generation finishes you're dropped into the editor.

Slide rail (left) — Vertical thumbnails of every slide. Click to navigate.
Canvas (center) — The selected slide. Edit anything in place.
Remix panel (right) — Ask AI to regenerate a slide, change tone, or apply a tweak across the deck.
Theme panel (right) — Pick from built-in themes.
Element toolbar (right) — Settings for whatever element you have selected.
Bottom toolbar — Insert new slides and elements, undo, redo.

Editing elements

Text

Click into any text element to edit. Markdown formatting works: **bold**, *italic*, __underline__, ~~strikethrough~~. Use the toolbar to change font, size, weight, color, and alignment.

Shapes

Insert squares, circles, triangles, arrows, lines, stars, and a few stylized shapes (funnel, venn diagrams) from the insert menu. Each shape supports fill, stroke, and stroke thickness.

Charts

Pick a chart type from the insert menu — bar, line, area, or donut. A dialog lets you enter data (labels and values). Charts render in the slide and recolor when you switch theme.

Tables

Insert a table and edit cells inline. Hover the last column or last row to reveal a + button for adding more. Tables auto-fit their height.

Images

Generate an image with AI or upload your own. Images are placed with no embedded text — text goes in separate text elements on top.

Themes and fonts

Switch from the Theme panel. Built-in themes include Editorial Light, Midnight, Slate, Sandstone, Mono, and Sage. Each theme sets the color palette, fonts, and accent treatment across every slide.

For per-element control, the font picker pulls from the full Google Fonts catalog — search by name, scroll by category. Font weights are kept simple: regular (400) and bold (700).

Slide layouts

The generator produces a mix of layouts depending on the content:

Title and cover slides
Bullet lists and short text
Charts and tables
Image-heavy layouts (image with text, full-screen image)
Timeline, statistic circles, venn diagrams
Section dividers and closing slides

You can also insert blank slides and build from scratch.

Remix

Use the Remix panel to make AI-powered changes:

"Make this slide more concise."
"Rewrite for a less technical audience."
"Change the chart to a line chart."
"Add an executive summary slide at the top."

You can apply remixes to one slide or the whole deck.

Undo, redo, and shortcuts

Every change is undoable. Common shortcuts:

Shortcut	Action
`Cmd/Ctrl + Z`	Undo
`Cmd/Ctrl + Y` / `Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z`	Redo
`Cmd/Ctrl + C` / `Cmd/Ctrl + V`	Copy / paste elements
`Delete` / `Backspace`	Delete selected element

Presenting

Click Present in the top toolbar to enter presentation mode. Navigation:

Key	Action
`→` / `Space` / `Page Down`	Next slide
`←` / `Page Up`	Previous slide
`Home` / `End`	Jump to first / last slide
`Esc`	Exit presentation mode

The UI fades out after a few seconds of inactivity and comes back on mouse or key movement.

Use Share in the top right to grant access:

Only people invited — Add team members by name.
Anyone in organization — Open to your whole workspace.

A shareable link is generated when sharing is enabled.

Exporting

Export the deck as a PDF from the editor toolbar.

What images won't contain

AI-generated images for presentations are intentionally text-free, chart-free, and data-free. The renderer expects text to live in separate text elements where it's editable. If you need a heading on top of an image, generate the image and add the text element manually.