Decks

A deck is a slide presentation with Napkin's hands. Every slide is a framed patch of the same infinite canvas — you draw on it, drop images and reference cards onto it, and sketch on it with your team in real time, exactly like a sketch board. The frame is what makes it a slide: a fixed 16:9 stage that presents, exports, and shares as a page.

Decks live in their own tab beside Sketches. New deck creates one and drops you on the canvas.

Slides and the filmstrip

The filmstrip on the left is the deck's order. The canvas is free space — slides can sit anywhere — but the filmstrip decides what comes after what.

• Add — New slide adds one to the right of your last slide, using the layout you last picked. The chevron beside it opens the layout choices.
• Jump — click a slide's thumbnail and the camera flies to it.
• Reorder — drag thumbnails up and down. Canvas positions don't move; only the presentation order does.
• Rename — double-click the title under a thumbnail. The name shows above the slide on canvas and in the presented footer.
• Delete — the × on a thumbnail removes the slide and everything on it, as one undo — ⌘Z brings it all back.

A slide selects by its border or its title label, and moving it carries its contents along. What's on a slide is simply whatever sits within its frame.

Layouts

Layouts are pre-placed text blocks: Title slide, Title + body, Two columns, Big statement, or Blank. Their prompts ("Add a title") are ghosts — visible while you edit, invisible to your audience, in exports, and to guests. Fill them in or ignore them.

To add a layout to a slide that already exists, select the slide and use the layout chip in the pill above it. It only adds what's missing — a slide that already has a title just gets the body.

Text on slides

The tool rail carries three slide-scale text presets — Title, Heading, Body — sized for a projected frame. Titles pick up your workspace brand color automatically.

Selected text gets a formatting cluster in the restyle pill:

• Bold and italic — per text block.
• Alignment — left, center, or right, within the text block's box.
• Typeface — sans, serif, or mono.
• Bullets — turns each line into a list item. While editing, Enter inside a bulleted line continues the list; Enter on an empty bullet ends it.

Alignment guides do the layout work: drag a text block and it snaps to the slide's edges, its centerlines, and other content — including equal-spacing hints when three things fall into a rhythm. Resizing snaps the same way.

Slide backgrounds

Select a slide and the pill offers a background swatch — white, soft tones, or a dark stage. Select several slides to retint them together. The background follows the slide everywhere: canvas, present mode, exports, and thumbnails.

Speaker notes

Notes in the deck's top bar opens a column bound to the slide you're looking at — write what you'll say, in markdown. Notes travel with the deck (and sync like everything else) but your audience never sees them: not in present mode, not in exports, not on share links. They surface in presenter view, and zv1 reads them with the deck's outline.

Present

Present takes the deck fullscreen: one slide at a time, in filmstrip order, with a progress bar in your workspace color. Arrow keys, space, or a click advance; Escape leaves. The deck stays live while presented — a teammate's edits appear as they happen.

Presented and exported slides carry quiet furniture: the slide number bottom-right, and your workspace mark bottom-left when the workspace has one. It's drawn over the slide, not placed on it — nothing to accidentally select or move.

Presenter view opens from the presented footer into its own window — this slide's notes, the next slide, a talk timer, and prev/next controls. Put the presentation on the big screen and the presenter window on yours; advancing either moves both.

Share a deck

Share links work exactly like sketch sharing, with one deck-only addition: a present-only link opens straight into the slideshow — no canvas, no tools, just the slides, live. That's the link to send when the deck is the message. A view link gives guests the canvas plus their own Present button; a draw link puts them on the canvas with you.

Export

From the ⋯ menu, Export deck:

The PNG export scopes still work too — Current view and Selection are handy for lifting a single slide or diagram.

Import a PDF

Import PDF on the Decks page turns a document into a deck — one slide per page, with the page sitting centered on the slide as its background. A 16:9 PDF (a deck exported from PowerPoint or Google Slides) fills each slide edge-to-edge; from there it's a normal Napkin deck: annotate over the pages, reorder, present, share. Long documents import their first 30 pages.

zv1 can read your deck

Ask zv1 about a deck and it can read the whole thing as an outline — slide titles, text, and what's drawn where — or look at any slide exactly as present mode shows it. "What's slide 3 missing?" is a fair question.