The design tool for students: due at nine, done tonight

Type the argument and get real slides, posters and pages with every element as an editable layer. You get better by moving the actual pieces, not by fighting a template.

The seminar deck, the poster and the group project, done tonight.

The shared live canvas: a deck beside the notes and charts that feed it, the way a project should sit. Click in, drag an element, move a real layer.

Due tomorrow is the normal deadline

The argument was finished in the library. What eats the night is layout: the second slide refusing to match the first, the diagram that will not hold still, the poster that looks wrong the moment it is printed.

Shyne drafts the layout in a minute so the evening goes to the argument. Everything arrives as real, editable pieces, so the version you hand in has your decisions in it, not a template's.

Start tonight's deck

Notes live on the same canvas as the deck they become, so tonight's reading turns into tomorrow's slides without retyping.

Real layers are how you learn design

Every heading, rule, image and chart is a layer you can select, drag and restyle, because every frame is ordinary HTML on an infinite canvas. Move a margin and watch what it does to the page; keep what works.

Templates hide those decisions and make you live with them. Layers hand them to you, which is why the third deck you make here looks like you knew what you were doing.

Move the real pieces and learn why they go there.

One canvas covers the whole term

  • Seminar decks

    An ordered run of slides you can see whole, drafted from your notes and edited live.

  • Posters

    Print-size pages for the conference or the society night, exported as a clean PDF.

  • Group projects

    One shared canvas, four live cursors, no folder of files named final_v3_REAL.

  • Charts

    Your data drawn as editable bars and labels, restyled to match the deck in one move.

The group project is one deck edited live by four people, so nobody reconciles versions at midnight.

Every AI works on the same students canvas.

Bring the agent you already use. It reads the brief, sees the work and writes the next editable frame — no exported file, no paste, no drift.

Claude Code connected to ShyneMCP

Turn tonight's reading notes into an eight-slide seminar deck. build the complete working system.

shyne · canvas.read students
shyne · deck.compose writes editable frames
shyne · canvas.write_html shared canvas

An eight-slide seminar deck is now composed on the same live canvas.

ChatGPT connected to ShyneMCP

Turn tonight's reading notes into an eight-slide seminar deck. create three useful variants.

shyne · canvas.read students
shyne · deck.compose writes editable frames
shyne · canvas.create_variants shared canvas

An eight-slide seminar deck is now composed on the same live canvas.

Gemini connected to ShyneMCP

Turn tonight's reading notes into an eight-slide seminar deck. compose the visual direction.

shyne · canvas.read students
shyne · deck.compose writes editable frames
shyne · media.compose shared canvas

An eight-slide seminar deck is now composed on the same live canvas.

Cursor connected to ShyneMCP

Turn tonight's reading notes into an eight-slide seminar deck. turn the approved frame into code.

shyne · canvas.read students
shyne · deck.compose writes editable frames
shyne · canvas.read_html shared canvas

An eight-slide seminar deck is now composed on the same live canvas.

Grok connected to ShyneMCP

Turn tonight's reading notes into an eight-slide seminar deck. prepare the publishing pass.

shyne · canvas.read students
shyne · deck.compose writes editable frames
shyne · schedule.prepare shared canvas

An eight-slide seminar deck is now composed on the same live canvas.

Your agent connected to ShyneMCP

Turn tonight's reading notes into an eight-slide seminar deck. run your own workflow on the canvas.

shyne · canvas.read students
shyne · deck.compose writes editable frames
shyne · mcp.call shared canvas

An eight-slide seminar deck is now composed on the same live canvas.

One shared canvas

Every students frame stays visible to people and agents at the same time.

Always on brand

Your colors, type and reusable assets stay attached to every students variation.

Editable output

The result lands as real frames and objects, ready for the next human decision.

Media in context

Generate or place imagery where the composition needs it, without leaving the working surface.

Open to every agent

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Grok and your own agent work through the same MCP surface.

Ready to ship

Move from the approved canvas to the useful file, link or published format without rebuilding it.

Ask for the draft, keep the thinking

The agent edits the same canvas you do, from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, and its work lands as frames you immediately reshape. Your midnight fixes survive its next pass.

  • Make the deck match the posterBoth read the same design variables, so type and palette align in one pass.
  • Pull the definitions out as a revision sheetA one-page summary lands beside the notes, ready to reread in May.
  • Cut this to eight slides for a ten-minute slotThe run tightens on the canvas in front of you and the argument keeps its shape.

Charts are drawn from your numbers as editable elements, restyled like text instead of pasted as screenshots.

It hands in like a normal file

PDF for the portal, PPTX when the module insists, PNG for the poster wall, or present straight from the browser. Text stays selectable text the whole way out.

The deck, the poster and the handout leave as files the department accepts.

Questions

Can I use AI to make a presentation for class?

Yes, with your course's policy checked first. The working pattern is that you write the argument, the agent lays it out, and you edit the result; every slide is editable HTML, so the submission has your hands on it.

Can my group edit the same project at once?

Yes. The canvas is multiplayer with live cursors, so four people work on different slides of one deck at the same time. There is no emailing files and nothing to merge on Sunday night.

Will it export a PDF I can hand in?

Yes. PDF and PPTX exports keep text as text and layers as layers, and posters export at print size, so portals, markers and print shops all get a normal file.

Can I turn lecture notes into slides?

Notes and slides are frames on the same canvas, so the agent can restructure a page of notes into a deck or a revision sheet, and you edit what comes back directly.

Start tonight's deck

The seminar deck, the poster and the group project, done tonight.

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