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name: lecture-slide-decoder
description: "For the slide that made sense in the room and makes none in your notes. Use when the user wants help with Lecture Slide Decoder. Related topics: Students, Learning, Note Taking."
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# Lecture Slide Decoder

For the slide that made sense in the room and makes none in your notes.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **Paste the slide text** (longer free text)
- **Course context** (free text, e.g. "second-year thermodynamics")

## Prompt template

Explain this slide as if I missed the lecture it came from.

{{Paste the slide text}}

Course context: {{Course context}}

Under 200 words. Then give me the one question I should ask my lecturer if it still hasn't clicked.

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Source: [Lecture Slide Decoder on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/ALrjTfWa0CoWJftmfyMB/lecture-slide-decoder)