Bolt: Visual Editing and Export for Bolt Slides
BoltBolt Slides picked up a set of editing and delivery tools aimed at what happens after a deck is generated. Users can now make visual edits directly on a slide (text, colors, formatting) without prompting, reorder or duplicate slides from a new side panel, and write richly formatted speaker notes. A new speaker view shows notes, the next slide, and a timer in a separate tab, and finished decks can be exported as PDF or JSON for the first time.
Key Takeaways
- Visual editing now works inside Bolt Slides, letting users change text, colors, and formatting on a slide without writing a prompt.
- Bolt added slide-level organization tools, including reorder, duplicate, and delete, through a new side panel and grid overview.
- Speaker notes support rich text formatting (bold, italic, headings, lists) for the first time.
- A new speaker view opens notes, the next slide, and a timer in a separate tab while the audience sees a clean fullscreen slide.
- Decks can now be exported as PDF or JSON, letting users share a static file or move a deck into another Bolt project.
- The new toolset only applies to newly created Slides projects; existing decks retain the controls they launched with.
Bolt Slides Gains Visual Editing, Organization, and Export
Bolt introduced a set of updates to Bolt Slides, its AI-built presentation tool, aimed at closing the gap between generating a deck and actually delivering it. Where the original Bolt Slides launch focused on turning a prompt into an interactive, web-native deck, this update focuses on what happens after the deck exists: editing it, organizing it, rehearsing it, and getting it out of Bolt.
Visual Edits Come to Slides
The update extends Bolt's recently launched visual editing tool to slide decks. Users can now edit text, colors, and formatting directly on a slide without writing a prompt. Because most changes to a slide deck are small, such as adjusting a headline or recoloring a chart, this saves a full prompt-and-rebuild cycle for edits that used to require one.
Organizing a Deck
Bolt Slides also picked up deck-level organization tools. Slides can be reordered, duplicated, or deleted directly from a new side panel or grid overview, rather than through the chat interface. This brings Bolt Slides closer to the editing experience of a traditional slide tool, while keeping the interactive, web-app nature of each individual slide.
Speaker Notes and Speaker View
Presenters can now write formatted speaker notes, with bold, italic, headings, lists, and other rich text options, attached to each slide. A new speaker view opens the notes, the upcoming slide, and a timer in a separate tab, while the audience-facing tab stays on a clean fullscreen view.
Exporting a Deck
Finished decks can now be downloaded as a PDF for sharing as a static file, or exported as JSON to move the deck into another Bolt project. Both export options were previously missing from Bolt Slides, which had kept decks locked inside the Bolt environment until this update.
Bolt noted that the new controls apply to newly created Slides projects; decks already in progress keep the controls they had when they were created.