Search slide decks on Mac and open the exact slide

Decks are where the real decisions hide, pricing tables, timelines, objections, architecture diagrams. The problem is not opening a deck. The problem is landing on slide 37 where the pricing table lives or slide 12 where the risk log is. Scrolling burns time. Re-finding across dozens of exports is worse.

Fenn lets you search inside decks on Mac and open the exact slide number in seconds. It runs on device for privacy. You choose sources once, then use a keyboard shortcut to search by topic, phrase, or criteria and jump straight to the slide you need.

Why decks are hard

• Filenames do not help when there are ten versions of the same deck.

• Exported PDFs lose speaker notes and context, so you waste time paging around.

• Finder, Spotlight, and launchers return files, not the slide that matters.

• Scattered exports live in Downloads or client folders, which makes recall slow.

What Fenn does differently for slides

• Finds by content, not name. Works with PDFs exported from Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides, and other tools.

• Opens the exact slide. Results show slide numbers with context snippets so you can jump immediately.

• On device by default. Indexing and search run locally on your Mac. Your decks stay private.

• Four modes to match how you think. Semantic, Keyword, Hybrid when you want both, and Exact mode for precise matches.

• Agent mode for complex requests. Ask for slides that match criteria, for example topic plus quarter plus a threshold, and open at the right place.

How to search slide decks and jump to the right slide

1. Pick sources once
   Add the folders where decks live, project folders, client folders, Downloads if that is where exports accumulate.

2. Let Fenn index on your Mac
   Text from slides and exported PDFs becomes searchable. Images and screenshots are indexed too, useful when slides are mostly visuals.

3. Use the keyboard shortcut
   Open Fenn anywhere. Choose Semantic, Keyword, Hybrid, or Exact.

4. Type the phrase or idea you remember
   Examples you can try now:

• pricing table

• ROI assumptions for energy

• risk register

• competitive matrix

• Q3 roadmap

5. Open at the exact slide
   Press Return. Your default viewer opens the deck at the slide number shown in the result.

6. Use Agent mode for criteria based queries
   Examples:

• slides that mention competitor “Acme” and 2025 pricing

• slides with “latency P95” above 200 ms

• slides about “design tokens” in Q4

  
  

Real world use cases

Product and design
Search design tokens and open directly on the spec slide when a developer asks for the latest values. No digging through versioned decks.

Sales and solutions
Search objection handling or security posture and land on the slide you need during a call. Faster answers, better trust.

Marketing and leadership reviews
Search ROI assumptions or budget variance and open on the exact slide for the board update. Less hunting, more signal.

Customer success
Search implementation timeline and jump to the date slide while guiding a client. No delay while paging through the deck.

Mini case, time saved

Before, a PM spends 7 minutes reopening three versions of a launch deck to find a single table. After switching to Fenn, the PM types pricing table and opens the deck at the exact slide in under 10 seconds. Over a week of reviews and standups, that adds up to hours recovered.

Privacy for teams that handle sensitive decks

Your decks often include confidential numbers and timelines. Fenn indexes and searches on your Mac by default. Files stay local during search and open actions. This gives you fast recall without sending internal slides to any external service.

Pro tips for slide search

• Use Hybrid mode when you remember a keyword and the idea around it, for example pricing plus enterprise.

• Save common phrases in a scratch note, risk register, competitive matrix, implementation timeline, and paste when you need them.

• Keep active project folders in your sources. If you export to Downloads, include it as a source so those slides are always searchable.

• When slides are image heavy, pair slide queries with a nearby term that appears in captions or labels, for example latency P95, churn, NPS.

Keep exploring

• Search text inside images and screenshots on Mac, helpful for visual slides

• Find any line in a PDF on Mac, often where final decks end up

• Find anything in your messy Downloads folder on Mac, perfect for exported decks

Search by what you remember, open the exact slide, and keep your work private. With Fenn on macOS Apple Silicon, you can find the moment, not the file.