Starring and reuse

Mark the work that landed. A starred slide or section can be offered to everyone in your organization, so the good version stops being the one person who remembers it.

Available now. Last checked: September 2026.

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01What it is

A way to say this one worked. Star the blueprints you reach for, and star the individual slides and sections that came out right.

02Why it matters

Every organization has a slide that always lands, and usually one person who knows where it is. Starring turns that into something your organization holds. It is also the honest answer to a hard question about generated work: not every piece is equally good, and the people doing the work know which ones are.

03How it works

There are two marks, and they mean different things. A heart is a favourite: it is yours alone, nobody else sees it, and it only brings the thing to the front of your own lists. You give a heart to images, charts, tables, references and blueprints. A star is your team's: it sits on a slide or a document section, everyone in your workspace sees it, and it is there so the part gets used again.

Give a blueprint a heart and it moves to the front of your own picker, without changing anyone else's.

A slide or a section can go further. Beyond the star it can be recommended, and beyond that put first for everyone, so it leads every list it is offered in. A star on a slide or a section is not private: your colleagues see it when they add a slide or a section, and the star belongs to the slide or section.

Each starred slide and section also says in how many of your decks or documents it is used, as a plain count: "Used in 3 decks", "Used in 1 document". A deck holding two copies counts once, and only this workspace's own decks and documents are counted, never an archived one and never a kept earlier version. A part that is not used anywhere yet says nothing.

A star stays with its customer. A slide or section starred in a customer's deck or document is offered only in that customer's work. One starred in work that belongs to no customer, such as a company profile, is offered everywhere in your organization. So one customer's facts never turn up in another customer's deck. The same holds for projects.

04How to use it
  1. Star the blueprints you come back to. They surface first for you.
  2. While reviewing, star the slides and sections that came out right.
  3. Offer the best of them to your organization.
  4. Compose from what is already there.
  5. To see everything your team starred, slides and sections together, open Assets and choose Starred. Every card shows the part itself: a slide drawn in its deck's brand, a section drawn as it reads in its document. Type in Search starred slides and sections to find one by its words or by where it comes from. Narrow the list with Format (Slides or Sections), From, Customer, Project, Layout or Level, and sort by Level, Most recent, per format or Name (A-Z).
  6. On a card, choose Open deck or Open document to go where it lives, or Use it… to see how to put it in another deck or document; Go to Slides or Go to Documents takes you there.
  7. To find a starred slide from the deck side, go to Slides and choose Starred slides; for sections, go to Documents and choose Starred sections. Go to Starred under either list opens the page with both.
  8. To see where a starred part is used, look under its name: a card on Starred or Starred slides, a starred slide offered in a deck, and a section under Insert a starred section each say "Used in 3 decks" or "Used in 1 document". It counts what was put in through Starred when adding a slide, Replace… or Insert a starred section.
  9. To keep an image, chart, table or reference for yourself, choose the heart on its card and pick Add to your favourites. The menu says Only you see this. Turn on Favourites above the gallery to see only yours.
05Q&A
Does starring something show it to my colleagues?

A heart on a blueprint is yours alone. A star on a slide or a section is seen by your colleagues when they add one, within the same customer's work. Putting a slide or section first for everyone is a separate, deliberate step.

How is this different from a blueprint?

A blueprint captures the shape of a whole Expression. A star marks one piece that came out well. A blueprint is the structure; a star is the instance.

Does a starred slide keep working when the facts behind it change?

It carries its sources like anything else, so when one of them changes you are told which work stood on the old version.

06Limits & not-yet

Nothing is put into a deck or document from the Starred page itself; you use a starred part from inside the deck or document. The count says in how many decks or documents a part is used; it does not list them, and copies made before the count began are not in it. Widening a piece from your own star to your whole organization is deliberate and manual, one piece at a time.

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