Structure, kept
Slides to outline
Upload a deck and get its structure as a clean nested outline, with duplicate points merged and filler slides dropped. About 30 seconds, free, no account.
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PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF · up to 20 MB · 80 slides
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Free · no account · 3 decks a day · files are never stored
Sometimes you do not want the slides rewritten; you want them as an outline you can navigate, annotate, or build on. PowerPoint's own Outline view gives you that, but with every agenda slide, every repeated section header and every "thank you" left in, and without the speaker notes. Nuutli's outline style keeps the deck's order and wording close to the original, nests supporting points under main points, merges the lines that repeat, drops the filler, and ends with a short list of key takeaways. Tables are written out as lines, speaker notes are placed under the slide they belong to, and every term and number stays exact. It downloads as Markdown, which pastes straight into Notion, Obsidian or a Google Doc, or as Word with real list levels.
Quick facts
What you get, in one list
- Price
- Free. 3 decks a day, no account, no card.
- Sign-up
- None. Upload and read the notes.
- Works on
- Any browser: Mac, Windows, Chromebook, iPad, phone.
- Input
- PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF, or a Google Slides share link. Speaker notes are read too.
- Output
- Word (.docx), Markdown, PDF via print, or copy to clipboard.
- Limits
- Up to 80 slides and 20 MB per deck on the free tier.
- Time
- About 30 seconds for a typical lecture.
- Privacy
- Files are processed in memory and never stored. Nothing is used for training.
- Languages
- Notes come back in the language of the slides: English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic and more.
Real example
A project-management training deck as an outline
Three slides, including an agenda slide that was dropped, became this outline.
Slides in
- Slide 1: Agenda
- - Scope, schedule, risk
- Slide 2: Defining scope
- - Scope statement: deliverables, boundaries, acceptance criteria
- - Work breakdown structure (WBS): decompose to work packages of 8 to 80 hours
- - Scope creep: uncontrolled change; prevent with a change control board
- Slide 3: Scheduling
- - Critical path = longest sequence of dependent tasks; zero float
- - Gantt charts for communication, network diagrams for analysis
- - Crashing adds resources; fast-tracking overlaps tasks (more risk)
Notes out
Defining scope
- Scope statement: deliverables, boundaries, acceptance criteria
- Work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Decompose to work packages of 8 to 80 hours
- Scope creep
- Uncontrolled change
- Prevented with a change control board
Scheduling
- Critical path: the longest sequence of dependent tasks, with zero float
- Gantt charts for communication; network diagrams for analysis
- Compressing a schedule
- Crashing: add resources
- Fast-tracking: overlap tasks, which adds risk
Key takeaways
- Scope is defined by a statement and decomposed by a WBS into 8 to 80 hour packages
- A change control board prevents scope creep
- The critical path has zero float and sets the project length
- Crash with resources, fast-track by overlapping, and expect more risk from the second
How it works
Make outline in three steps
- 1
Upload the deck
PPTX, PDF or a Google Slides link, up to 80 slides.
- 2
Choose Outline
Preselected here. Wording stays close to the slides; filler goes; points nest.
- 3
Paste or download
Copy the Markdown into Notion, Obsidian or a doc, or download Word with real list levels.
Outline versus PowerPoint's Outline view
PowerPoint's Outline view is an extraction: every placeholder's text, in order, nothing removed and nothing merged. That is useful for editing a deck and poor for studying one. The agenda slide repeats the section titles, section headers appear twice, and the closing slides add nothing. Speaker notes are not shown at all. Nuutli's outline is a cleaned extraction: the order and the wording stay, but repeated lines are merged, filler slides are dropped, speaker notes are placed under their slide, and the levels are nested the way the content implies rather than the way the text boxes happened to be set.
Choose Outline when you need a map of the deck: to find things during a lecture, to build your own notes on top, or to feed a note-taking app that wants structure. Choose Summary when you need the deck explained, and Bullet points when you want something between the two.
- Markdown is the best export for Notion, Obsidian and Logseq; the nesting is preserved.
- Word export keeps the levels as real list levels, so you can collapse and expand in Word's outline mode.
- Image-only slides are noted, not invented; the deck's pictures cannot be read.
In short
To turn slides into an outline, upload the PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides deck to Nuutli and choose Outline. It extracts the deck's structure as nested bullets in the original order, close to the original wording, with duplicates merged and filler slides removed, plus key takeaways. About 30 seconds, free, no sign-up, Markdown and Word download.
Last reviewed November 3, 2026 by the Nuutli team.
Frequently asked questions
How do I extract an outline from a PowerPoint?+
Upload the .pptx to Nuutli, choose Outline and click Make my outline. The deck's structure comes back as nested bullets in the original order, with filler slides dropped and duplicates merged, in about 30 seconds. Download as Markdown or Word.
How is this different from PowerPoint's Outline view?+
Outline view copies every text box as it is, including agenda, divider and thank-you slides, and ignores speaker notes. Nuutli merges repeats, drops filler, nests points by meaning and includes the speaker notes under their slide.
Can I paste the outline into Notion or Obsidian?+
Yes. Download or copy the Markdown; the headings and nested bullets paste directly into Notion, Obsidian, Logseq and Google Docs.
Does it keep the original wording?+
Yes, as close as possible. An outline is not a summary; the lines stay near the slides' wording, and every term, number and name is exact.
Does it work from a PDF?+
Yes. Each PDF page is read as a slide, including 2-up and 4-up handouts.
Is it free?+
Yes. Three decks a day, up to 80 slides, no account.
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