Town Decks – Town Docs
Town Decks
Town Decks turn a conversation into a presentation you and your assistant build together.
Anything you’ve already been working through with your Townie — a thread, an email chain, a recording, a doc, research it just did — can become a deck. You ask for it, your assistant writes the whole thing, and from then on the deck is a shared workspace: you edit slides by hand, and you keep asking your assistant for changes in the chat right next to it.
That’s the part that makes decks different from a one-shot “generate a presentation” tool. The deck doesn’t stop being editable when the assistant is done, and the assistant doesn’t stop being useful once you’ve started editing.
Create a deck
Decks are created through your assistant, so you can start one from wherever you’re already working:
- Ask in any thread — “turn this into a deck”, “make a deck out of this research”, “build a pitch deck from this email thread”. Your assistant already has the thread’s context, so it doesn’t need you to re-explain anything.
- From the New button — pick Deck and describe what you want. This drops a Create Town Deck chip into the composer so your assistant knows a deck is the output.
- From your home screen — use the Create a deck suggestion in the chat bar.
If your request is vague, your assistant will ask a question or two first — who the deck is for, roughly how long, what the key points are — then build it. If you’d rather it just take a swing, say so and it will.
Your assistant can also do the research and gather the material as part of the same request, and generate images for slides that need a visual.
Pick a style
Before generating a new deck, your assistant shows you a style picker. Each style is a complete look and a layout system — it decides slide structure, image treatment, and text density, not just colors and fonts.
| Style | What it looks like | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Cinematic | Full-bleed imagery, dimmed or grayscale photos, oversized type, high contrast | Brand stories, mood-driven narratives, visual product decks |
| Editorial | Stat grids, chapter cards, featured boxes, timelines | Company overviews, explainers, investor and product decks |
| Minimal | Lots of whitespace, restrained type, one idea per slide | Executive summaries, keynote-style storytelling |
| Lookbook | Asymmetric photo scatters, dense image grids, warm off-white canvas | Lookbooks, collections, product photography, mood boards |
| Illustrated | Warm parchment canvas with hand-painted, storybook-style illustrations generated per slide | Creative storytelling, educational decks, warmer brand narratives |
| Town | The official Town brand look — warm paper, charcoal editorial type, one vivid orange accent, and Townies | Anything that represents Town |
You can browse the full gallery from the picker to see a live preview of each style before you commit.
The Town style features your Townie
Pick the Town style and your deck comes out on brand — and the title slide features your Townie, the same character you chose for your assistant.
Just ask your assistant to “Create a Town deck” and select the style Town. If you haven’t picked a Townie yet, the deck uses one of the stock Town characters instead. Town-styled decks sign off with a second Townie on the closing slide.
Or describe your own style
You aren’t limited to the six built-in styles. Instead of picking one, describe what you want — “a retro 80s neon look”, “something like a Japanese woodblock print”, “match our brand: navy and cream, serif headlines” — and your assistant builds a custom style from your description, including illustrations in that style if the look calls for it. It’ll confirm its interpretation before generating.
Each deck has one look, set when it’s created. If you want a different style, ask your assistant to rebuild it.
Edit by hand
Open a deck and you’re in the editor. You can:
- Rewrite any text — double-click a block and type.
- Format the text you selected — selecting text pops up a small toolbar: bold, italic, underline, font, size (S/M/L/XL), text color, highlight, and block background.
- Move and resize blocks — drag by the handle, resize from the corner.
- Add an image to a slide — use Add image in the deck toolbar, or paste an image straight onto the slide.
- Rename the deck — click its name in the top-left of the viewer and type. Enter saves, Escape cancels. Renaming only changes the name — it doesn’t touch the slides.
- Undo and redo — including jumping back to an earlier point in the deck’s history.
- Switch to Viewer mode — from the View menu, when you want to read or present without editing.
- Switch the layout — Vertical (the default, scrolls like a page) or Horizontal (pages side to side like a classic slide deck).
Your edits save automatically as you make them.
Keep asking your assistant for changes
The deck view has a chat column next to the slides. Ask for changes the same way you’d ask a designer:
- “Tighten slide 3 — it’s too wordy.”
- “Add a slide on pricing after the overview.”
- “Swap the closing slide for a call to action.”
- “Make the numbers on the metrics slide bigger.”
You can keep multiple threads on the same deck, so a long revision conversation doesn’t have to share a thread with a quick one-off fix.
Your manual edits are safe. Before your assistant changes a deck, it re-reads the current version, so an AI update applies on top of your hand edits instead of overwriting them. If you were editing at the same moment the assistant was, it re-reads and re-applies rather than clobbering your work.
Share and export
Every deck lives in your Content library under Decks, alongside your documents and recordings.
- Share a link — use Share to create a link anyone can open, no Town account required. The link always shows the current version, so you don’t have to re-share after an update.
- Export — the Export menu offers Download HTML (a copy you can keep and open in any browser) and Export to Google Slides. To get a PDF or PowerPoint (PPTX), export to Google Slides first, then use Google’s own download options from there.
Export to Google Slides
Under Export to Google Slides you’ll see your connected Google accounts; pick the one whose Drive should hold the presentation. Town creates a new, editable Google Slides presentation there and gives you a link to open it. Your Town deck is unchanged — the export is a copy, so later edits in Town don’t flow into the Slides file (export again for an updated copy).
A few things to expect:
- One Slides slide per deck slide, with real Slides text you can edit.
- The layout is approximate. Slides can’t reproduce everything a Town deck can draw, so anything without a Slides equivalent — inline vector graphics, CSS-drawn charts — comes across as a labelled placeholder. Town tells you when part of a deck didn’t translate exactly.
- From Slides you can take it anywhere — export to PDF or PowerPoint with Google’s own export.
- Only Google accounts. Outlook accounts can’t receive a Slides export.
- Town needs Drive and Slides permission for that account. If it doesn’t have it yet, the account shows Enable → and takes you through granting it before the export runs.
- Save first. While a deck still has edits saving, the Slides options are unavailable, so the presentation always matches the saved deck.
You can also just ask your assistant — “export this deck to Google Slides” — and it produces the same presentation. One difference: the assistant exports whatever version of the deck is saved, and it won’t wait the way the menu does, so let your edits finish saving before you ask.