project-deck

# Project Deck Skill > Create beautiful presentation decks to communicate project status to your future self and collaborators. ## Purpose Based on Scott Cunningham's Part 7: "Making Beautiful Decks For My Future Self" - using decks not for public speaking but to efficiently communicate work status across time and to coauthors. ## The Philosophy "I use decks to help me keep track of the work I was doing so that I can communicate it to my coauthors and myself later in the week when we meet to go over our projects." Claude has absorbed the "rhetoric of decks" - the tacit knowledge about what makes presentations effective: - One idea per slide - Titles are assertions, not labels - Lead with conclusions - Visual hierarchy signals importance - Repeat for retention - Transition explicitly ## When to Use - Before a supervisor meeting - At the end of a research sprint - When handing off to a coauthor - When returning to a dormant project - Weekly project status updates ## Workflow 1. **Read project context** - Progress logs, current focus, recent work 2. **Design deck structure**: - Research question - What's been done (with figures/tables) - Key findings so far - Current blockers - Next steps 3. **Create beautiful output** - Clean design, good typography, optimal cognitive density 4. **Include visuals** - Figures, tables, diagrams that capture the work ## Deck Rhetoric Principles ```markdown ## Principles for Effective Decks 1. **One idea per slide** - Do...