/neuroflow:slideshow¶
Build a presentation from selected areas of the project.
/slideshow assembles a structured slide deck outline from your .neuroflow/ project memory. Pick which phases, analyses, figures, and findings to include; specify your audience and talk length; get a ready-to-export slide deck in Markdown/reveal.js or a structured text outline for PowerPoint or Keynote.
When to use it¶
- Before a conference talk or poster session
- For a lab meeting or group presentation
- For a thesis defense or progress review
- For a funder update or internal stakeholder presentation
What it does¶
Claude asks:
- What is this presentation for? (conference, lab meeting, defense, funder update, other)
- Who is the audience? (specialists, general neuroscience, mixed, non-scientists)
- How long is the talk? (determines slide count)
- Which phases or topics to include? (picks from what exists in
.neuroflow/) - Output format? (Markdown/reveal.js or structured text for PowerPoint/Keynote)
Then Claude loads the relevant phase content, synthesises key findings and figures, and produces a complete slide deck outline.
Slide structure¶
Every deck follows a fixed spine regardless of length:
| Slide | Content |
|---|---|
| Title | Project name, presenter, affiliation, date, venue |
| Agenda | Section list — one line per topic |
| Per-phase sections | Section title slide + content slides (background, methods, results, limitations — from preregistration deviations and recorded analysis limitations, never from the team-internal fails/ log) |
| Summary | 3–5 take-home bullet points |
| Future directions | Next steps (talks > 10 min) |
| Acknowledgements | Funding and collaborators |
| References | Papers cited in analyses or preregistration |
Slide count heuristic¶
| Talk length | Target slides |
|---|---|
| 5–10 min | 8–12 |
| 15–20 min | 15–22 |
| 30 min | 25–30 |
| 45 min | 32–40 |
Output formats¶
Markdown / reveal.js¶
---
title: "OddballStudy2026"
author: "J. Smith"
date: "2026-03-09"
theme: white
---
# OddballStudy2026
J. Smith · Institute of Neuroscience · 2026-03-09
---
## Agenda
- Background
- Methods
- Results
- Summary
---
## Methods
---
### Participants
- N = 24 adults (12 F), mean age 26.3 ± 4.1 years
- Exclusions: 1 (excessive artefacts)
--
### EEG Acquisition
- 64-channel BrainProducts LiveAmp
- 1000 Hz sampling rate
- Online reference: FCz
Open with reveal.js or Slidev.
Structured text outline (PowerPoint / Keynote)¶
[SLIDE] Title
[TITLE] OddballStudy2026
[BULLET] J. Smith — Institute of Neuroscience
[BULLET] Date: 2026-03-09
[SPEAKER NOTE] Greet the audience and introduce the study briefly.
[SLIDE] Agenda
[TITLE] Overview
[BULLET] Background
[BULLET] Methods
[BULLET] Results
[BULLET] Summary
[SLIDE] Results — P300 Effect
[TITLE] Noise reduces P300 amplitude
[BULLET] Cluster at 350–520ms (p = 0.012)
[BULLET] Amplitude reduction: 2.3 µV (Cohen's d = 0.71)
[IMAGE: figures/erp_comparison.png]
[SPEAKER NOTE] Point to the shaded cluster region on the figure.
Copy each [SLIDE] block into a new slide in PowerPoint or Keynote.
Output¶
The slide deck is a deliverable: it is saved as slides/slideshow-YYYY-MM-DD.md in the project root, while the working outline and speaker notes stay in .neuroflow/slideshow/. If a file with the same date already exists, a version suffix is added (-v2, -v3, etc.).
A deck is shown outside the team, so it never carries local-only memory (sessions, referee reviews), the fails/ or finance/ logs, or participant-identifying details.
Files read and written¶
| Direction | Files |
|---|---|
| Reads | .neuroflow/project_config.md, .neuroflow/flow.md, .neuroflow/{phase}/flow.md (for each selected phase) |
| Writes | slides/slideshow-YYYY-MM-DD.md, .neuroflow/slideshow/ (outline, notes, flow.md), .neuroflow/sessions/YYYY-MM-DD.md |
Related commands¶
/write-report— generate a prose report rather than a slide deck/notes— capture rough notes that can seed a future slideshow/output— package the slideshow file along with figures for sharing/sentinel— audit project consistency before presenting