Comments on the slide, not on the PDF
Colleagues can now comment on a deck slide by slide, inside the editor — and a comment can be handed straight to the AI to fix. It is the first place in ANVL where people work on a deck together, instead of sending it back and forth.
Here is how a deck usually gets reviewed. Someone exports a PDF and mails it round. Three people reply, each in their own thread, each referring to "the slide with the chart" or "page 6" of a version that has already changed. The person who made the deck reads all of it, works out which comment is about which slide, makes the changes, and exports a new PDF. Repeat.
ANVL already had review: send a deck to someone, and they approve it or request changes. That answers can this go out? It does not answer what is wrong with slide 4? — and that is the conversation that actually takes the time.
So decks now have comments, slide by slide, in the editor itself.
Where the comments live
The inspector on the right of the editor has a tab called Comments. It shows your colleagues' thread for the slide on the canvas: who wrote, when, and what, oldest first, with a box to write in at the bottom. Enter sends, Shift+Enter gives a new line — the same as the AI chat on the left.
A dot on the tab means the slide you are looking at has unresolved comments. Move to a slide without any, and it goes out.
The switch This slide · Whole deck changes what you see. The deck view is grouped by slide, in slide order, each group headed Slide 4 · 2 and a click away from the slide itself. No collapsed groups, nothing to expand to get the overview.
Comments do not disappear because the deck changed. A comment on a slide that was removed or rebuilt is kept under Removed slide, at the end of the list.
Replies, and resolved instead of deleted
Reply to a comment and the reply hangs under it, indented. One level: a reply to a reply stays in the same thread, so a discussion reads top to bottom.
Anyone in the workspace can mark a comment resolved, because the person who fixed the slide is rarely the person who wrote the comment. Resolved comments fold away under 2 resolved, with their replies, and can be reopened. There is no delete. What was said about a deck stays part of its history.
Fix with AI
This is the part that does not exist in a PDF.
Every comment has a Fix with AI button. It sends the comment, word for word, to the AI chat, pointed at the comment's slide. The chat opens and shows what was sent. A colleague's question or suggestion is read as a request for a change: can we do this one without the picture? means remove the picture.
If the AI leaves the slide as it is, the receipt says why — no change: there is no image on this slide — instead of a quiet nothing. And the comment is not resolved automatically. The person who looks at the result decides whether it answered what was asked, and presses Resolved.
The button is tied to its slide. A comment can only ever lead to a change on the slide it was written on; it cannot become an order to remove or move other slides.
What stays inside
Comments are for the people working on the deck, and they stay there. They never travel with an export or a share link — they live separately from everything the export reads. They belong to the workspace: a share has to go to a member, and whether that share lets someone read or comment is enforced, not just recorded.
Comments come with the paid plans. On the base plan the tab is there, but the box to write in is not, and the tab says why.
Why this was the first one
ANVL has been a tool one person drives: you talk to it, it builds, you present. Most material is not finished by one person, though. Someone has the numbers, someone else knows the customer, and a manager has opinions about slide 2.
Comments are the first place where those people meet inside the deck rather than around it. If you are evaluating ANVL for a team, that is what to look at: the review happens where the slide is, and the fix can be one click away from the remark that asked for it.