Plan an appendix ordered by what gets asked
Not a place to bury cuts — a place to reach for while someone is waiting.
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| Tags | AnalyzingReformattingSlides |
Plan the appendix for this deck. ***The appendix is not where cut material goes to be buried. It is what I reach for when someone asks.*** 1. **Go through what was cut** and sort: - **Likely to be asked about** — ***appendix, and I should know where it is without looking*** - **Proves something in the main deck** — ***appendix, and referenced from the slide it supports*** - **Interesting and unasked** — ***cut entirely.* **It is weight** 2. **What is not in the deck at all and should be in the appendix** — ***the working behind a number, the method, the excluded cases.* **Whatever a sceptical person would ask for** 3. **Order it by likelihood of being asked**, ***not by the order of the main deck*** 4. **Label each so I can find it while someone is waiting** — ***a number I can jump to*** 5. **Which appendix slides are actually the answer to a hard question** — ***say which question*** **Then:** - **What belongs in the appendix versus in a separate document** — *an appendix longer than the deck is a document* - ***What to have open in another window rather than in the deck*** - **What I should be able to answer without any slide** ⚠️ ***Use only material I gave you. Do not invent supporting data, a method, or a figure to fill the appendix*** — **an appendix exists to be scrutinised and a fabricated number there is worse than a gap.**
After pasting, fill in the fields at the bottom (My deck · What I cut · Likely audience)
What this prompt does
Appendices become a dumping ground, so nothing is findable when a question comes. This orders by likelihood of being asked, labels each with the question it answers, and cuts the rest entirely.
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