TL;DR — the year in review presentation in one screen
- One story, six beats: where we started, what we set out to do, what happened, who made it happen, what we learned and what comes next.
- Twelve slides cover most versions. Extra charts and the long photo reel go in an appendix.
- The audience changes the deck. Company or team, personal or career, school or class, and nonprofit versions are below, with 20 slide ideas and a prompt for each.
- Build it from what you already have: upload the year's spreadsheet, notes and photos to NOXI, apply your template, edit by chat and export a PowerPoint that matches the slides, free.
Quick answer: a year in review presentation is a 10–15-slide deck that looks back on the past twelve months to celebrate, explain and set up the next year. Open with the year in one sentence, show results against January's goals, a timeline of milestones, the people behind them and the lessons, then close with next year's three priorities and a thank-you.
Disclosure: I am the founder of NOXI, one of the tools mentioned here. The structure, slide ideas and prompts work in PowerPoint, Google Slides or any AI tool.
What is a year in review presentation, and who is it for?
A year in review presentation is a short, presented story of the past year for the people who lived it or paid for it. The format stays the same; the audience decides which slides matter.
| Version | Audience | Main goal | Typical length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company all-hands | All employees | Shared story, direction | 20–30 min |
| Team review | Team, manager | Results, recognition | 10–15 min |
| Personal / career | Manager, reviewers | Impact, next step | 5–10 min |
| School / class | Students, parents | Memories, growth | 5–15 min |
| Nonprofit | Board, donors | Impact, support | 15–20 min |
The lengths are rules of thumb. The year in review looks back; its partner looks forward. If you also present 2027 targets and budget, pair it with our annual plan and budget presentation guide, so this deck's lessons become that deck's assumptions.
The story arc: six beats every year in review needs
Strong year-in-review decks follow one arc, for a company or a fifth-grade class alike.
- Where we started.January's baseline. Without a starting point, growth has no scale.
- What we set out to do.The goals exactly as they were set, not as people remember them in December.
- What happened.Milestones on a timeline and results against each goal, misses included.
- Who made it happen.Teams, people, partners and customers, each named with what they did.
- What we learned.Keep, stop, start: the lessons that change next year.
- What comes next.Three priorities and one thing you need from the room.
Order matters because of how people remember. Daniel Kahneman and colleagues found that people judge an experience largely by its most intense moment and by its end, the peak-end rule [1]. So give the deck one clear peak, the biggest win told with evidence, and end on next year and a thank-you, not on an appendix of charts.
Year in review presentation template: the 12-slide structure
Twelve slides are enough for a team or company; personal and class versions work with eight to ten. Here is each slide's job and the mistake that most often spoils it.
| Slide | What goes on it | Common mistake |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Title | Year, team, one-line verdict | "2026 Review" only |
| 2. The year in one slide | Headline, three proof points | Agenda instead |
| 3. Where we started | January baseline | Skipped entirely |
| 4. Goals scorecard | Goal, result, status | Hiding the misses |
| 5. Year in numbers | 4–6 numbers, with comparison | 20 small numbers |
| 6. Timeline | 8–10 milestones by month | Every event listed |
| 7. Biggest win | What, why, evidence | Self-congratulation |
| 8. Customer voice | Quotes, outcomes | Unapproved quotes |
| 9. People | Shout-outs, joiners, thanks | Only top performers |
| 10. Lessons | Keep, stop, start | Generic lessons |
| 11. Next year | Three bets, owners | Ten priorities |
| 12. Thank you & ask | Thanks, one clear ask | "Questions?" |
Slides 2, 4 and 11 carry the deck. Slide 2 is what people repeat afterwards, so write it as a sentence with a number. Slide 4 earns trust by showing misses next to hits. Slide 11 turns a look back into a plan. Slide 3 is the one most decks skip, leaving slide 5 with nothing to compare against.
For an all-hands on a big screen, Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 rule is a useful ceiling: about ten slides, twenty minutes, no font smaller than 30 points [2]. Detail tables and the photo reel go in an appendix; loop the photos while people arrive.
20 year-in-review slide ideas (with a prompt for each)
Pick eight to twelve; no deck needs all twenty. Each has a one-line prompt for NOXI or any AI tool with your data uploaded.
Numbers and KPIs
- The year in numbers.Four to six big numbers, last year underneath. Prompt: "Make a year-in-numbers slide from the six metrics in my spreadsheet, each with the 2025 value and the change."
- Goals scorecard.January's goals, the results, a status. Prompt: "Build a goals scorecard: goal as set in January, result, status with a word label, and a title saying how many we hit."
- Then vs now.January left, December right, same metrics. Prompt: "Create a before/after slide comparing January and December 2026 for [metrics]."
- The trend that tells the story.One monthly chart, two or three notes. Prompt: "Chart [metric] by month and annotate [March: new triage] and [July: help center launch]."
Milestones
- Timeline of the year.Eight to ten milestones, one line each. Prompt: "Turn my notes into a January–December timeline of our eight biggest milestones, dated by month."
- What we shipped.Launches, projects or events, one image each. Prompt: "Make a 2×3 grid of our six biggest launches; use my screenshots as-is, one-line result under each."
- The big bet, revisited.The year's biggest decision and how it played out. Prompt: "Create a slide on [decision]: why we made it, what happened in numbers, what we'd repeat."
Wins and customers
- Top three wins.Each with evidence. Prompt: "Pick the three biggest wins from my notes, give each a number or quote as proof, and name the pattern in the title."
- Voice of the customer.Or parent, donor, beneficiary; quotes approved in writing. Prompt: "Lay out these three approved quotes with name and role; keep every quote word for word."
- Our year on the map.Where you sold, taught or served. Prompt: "Show our [customers / events / volunteers] on a map by [country / city] using the counts in my file."
People and shout-outs
- Shout-out wall.A name and a specific contribution per line. Prompt: "Create a shout-out slide with these eight names and what each did, one line per person, no ranking."
- New faces and milestones.Joiners, promotions, anniversaries. Prompt: "Make a 'new faces and milestones' slide from this list; use my photos as-is."
- Behind the scenes.The offsite, the launch night, the whiteboard. Prompt: "Arrange these nine photos as a collage; use my photos as-is, month as the caption."
Gallup reports that only one in three US workers strongly agree they were recognised for good work in the past seven days, and public recognition topped its list of the most memorable kinds [3]. Be specific: "Priya rebuilt the refund flow in three weeks", not "thanks, team".
Lessons
- Keep, stop, start.Or Atlassian's 4 Ls: loved, loathed, learned, longed for [4]. Prompt: "Turn my notes into keep / stop / start, three items per column, each with evidence."
- What didn't work.One honest miss. Prompt: "Write a 'what didn't work' slide on [miss]: what happened, the cause, what we changed; no blame."
- Predictions revisited.January forecasts against reality. Prompt: "Two columns: our January predictions versus what happened, with ✓ or ✗ and one line each."
Next year
- Three bets for next year.Owner, target, first milestone. Prompt: "Create a 2027 priorities slide: three bets, each with owner, target metric and first milestone."
- Thank you and one ask.Thanks, then one request. Prompt: "Write a closing slide that thanks [audience] and makes one ask: [ask], with how and by when."
Light-hearted
- The year, Wrapped.Busiest day, top emoji, coffee count. Prompt: "Make a Wrapped-style slide from these team stats: [list]; one big number per card, a playful caption under each."
- Awards or a quiz.Superlatives everyone gets, or "guess the number". Prompt: "Create a quiz: 'How many [tickets / books / meals] this year?' with four options, then a reveal slide."
Spotify's recap began in 2015 as "Year in Music" and became Wrapped in 2016 [5], so most rooms know the format. Borrow the rhythm, not the brand.
Year in review templates by audience
The twelve-slide structure is the base; each audience swaps in its own slides and has one rule that matters most.
Company all-hands and team reviews
At an all-hands, the CEO opens and closes, and each function presents two or three slides. The rule: one layout for everyone, so it reads as one company. A team review goes deeper on metrics and people. The numbers change most by function:
| Team | Metrics that work | Story angle |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing | Pipeline, leads, CAC | Best campaign, why |
| Sales | Bookings, win rate, deal size | Biggest deal |
| Support | Resolved, response time, CSAT | A customer moment |
| Product | Releases, uptime, adoption | Most-used feature |
| People / HR | Hires, retention, engagement | A culture moment |
| Finance / ops | Cost, cycle time, savings | Biggest saving |
A marketing year in review adds a campaign gallery (idea 6) with one result per campaign. If your team ran quarterly reviews, the four QBR decks already hold most of the numbers; our QBR presentation guide shows the scorecard format to reuse.
Personal or career year in review
For a performance or promotion conversation, the deck is an argument: this is the impact I had, and this is what I am ready for. The rule: impact, not activity.
| Slide | What goes on it |
|---|---|
| 1. Title | Name, role, year |
| 2. My year in one line | Headline impact, with a number |
| 3. Goals vs results | Each goal, result, status |
| 4. Top three wins | Impact and evidence |
| 5. Projects timeline | Month by month |
| 6. Feedback | Short quotes, with permission |
| 7. Growth | Skills, courses, stretch work |
| 8. Next year & ask | Goals, support needed |
Collect the material during the year in what Julia Evans calls a brag document: a running list of your work, including "fuzzy" work such as mentoring, with the goal and effect of each item [6]. Credit collaborators precisely ("I led", "we shipped"). A personal slideshow for family or friends flips the balance: one photo per month, the year's "firsts", three to five minutes.
School or class year in review
Two decks share this name: a teacher's class slideshow for students and parents, and a student's end-of-year reflection. The rule for both: growth over grades.
| Class slideshow (teacher) | Reflection (student) |
|---|---|
| Our class in numbers | What I set out to learn |
| Month by month | My three best pieces of work |
| Projects and trips | Something hard, and how I handled it |
| A moment for every student | What I learned about myself |
| Class awards | Feedback that helped |
| Letter to next year's class | Goals for next year |
Follow your school's photo consent policy, give every student the same number of appearances, keep awards positive and grades off the screen. Students choosing a tool can start with our ranking of the best AI presentation makers for students.
Nonprofit year in review
For the board, donors and volunteers, the deck proves that support turned into change. The rule: separate outputs from outcomes. In the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's logic model, outputs are what your activities produce (meals served), outcomes are the changes that follow (families no longer skipping meals), and impact is the longer-term effect [7].
| Slide | What goes on it |
|---|---|
| 1. Mission & year | The change you made, with a number |
| 2. The need | Context statistic, with its source |
| 3. What we did | Outputs by program |
| 4. What changed | Outcomes and evidence |
| 5. One story | One person or family, with consent |
| 6. Money in, money out | Income, spending by category |
| 7. People | Volunteers, partners, donors |
| 8. Next year & ask | Goals, funding gap, how to help |
Match the financial slide to your audited statements, tell the story with dignity, and give the ask a number and a result: "$40,000 opens a second pantry site in March."
A worked example (illustrative)
The situation. Fieldnote's 18-person support team presents its 2026 review at the December 10 all-hands: fifteen minutes, twelve slides.
Slide 5 — the year in numbers
Title: "We answered 19% more conversations in a third of the time"
| Metric | 2025 | 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conversations resolved | 41,200 | 48,900 | +19% |
| Median first response | 5.2 h | 1.8 h | −65% |
| Customer satisfaction | 86% | 91% | +5 pts |
| Self-serve rate | 22% | 34% | +12 pts |
| Team size | 16 | 18 | +2 |
Conversations per person rose only about 6% (2,575 to 2,717), so the gain came from process, not overtime. That line goes in the speaker notes.
Slide 4 — the goals scorecard
Title: "Two of four goals hit; 24/7 chat shipped two months late"
| Goal (set in January) | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|
| First response under 2 h | 1.8 h | Hit |
| Satisfaction 90%+ | 91% | Hit |
| 24/7 chat by September 1 | Live November 4 | Late |
| 150 help-center articles | 120 | Missed |
The storyline in twelve titles
- Title."Support in 2026: faster answers, happier customers, one promise kept late"
- Year in one slide."We answered 19% more conversations in a third of the time"
- Where we started."January: 5.2-hour replies and a backlog every Monday"
- Goals."Two of four goals hit; 24/7 chat shipped two months late"
- Numbers."Five numbers that show the year"
- Timeline."Four changes drove the year: triage (March), weekend shifts (May), help center (July), 24/7 chat (November)"
- Biggest win."Weekend shifts cut the Monday backlog from 900 conversations to 150"
- Customer voice."'Fast' became the most common word in survey comments"
- People."Four people wrote 120 help articles on top of their queues"
- Lessons."Keep weekend shifts; stop writing articles nobody searches for; start from search data"
- Next year."Three bets for 2027 take self-serve from 34% to 45%"
- Thanks & ask."Thank you. One ask: forward us the questions customers ask you most"
Read the titles in a row and the whole year is there, misses included. More on writing titles like these in our guide to consulting-style slides.
From spreadsheet, notes and photos to slides
Gather three things before opening any tool; this hour decides the deck's quality more than any template.
- The year file (Excel, Sheets or CSV).One row per metric; a column per month, plus last year's total and January's target.
- The notes document.Goals as set, wins with evidence, misses with causes, people to thank, lessons, next year's bets. Notes in Word? See Word to PowerPoint with AI.
- The photo folder.20 to 40 photos, named by month, cleared for consent, plus quotes approved in writing.
The notes matter most. A spreadsheet says satisfaction rose five points; only your notes say why. Write the cause next to each number.
Fun year-in-review ideas that don't feel cringe
Humour works when it celebrates the group, uses real data and takes one or two slides. It backfires when it singles someone out.
- Superlatives everyone gets: "Most creative bug name", "Calmest during an outage".
- "Guess the number" before each reveal on the numbers slide.
- Bloopers about things, not people: the typo in the launch email, the demo that froze.
- Then and now photos: the first office versus today, the first product screen versus the current one.
Four rules keep it kind: punch up, never down; use team totals, never "most messages sent" by person; place fun after a heavy section, since the end belongs to next year; and explain inside jokes in one line so new joiners laugh too.
Design rules for a year-in-review deck
Treat it like any executive deck: one message per slide, a comparison for every number, and room for photos.
- Action titles."Satisfaction reached 91%, up 5 points" beats "Customer Satisfaction".
- A comparison for every number."48,900" means nothing; "48,900, up 19%" means something.
- Label the period.Calendar or fiscal year, and the date the data runs to ("data to November 30").
- Status never by colour alone.About 1 in 12 men has a colour vision deficiency, most often red-green [8]. Add a word: "Hit", "Late", "Missed".
- Real photos for real people.Full-bleed or in a clean grid. Generated images suit section dividers, never a person who was there.
- End forward.Next year and thanks come last, per the peak-end rule [1].
For type sizes, alignment and spacing, see our guide to professional presentation design.
5 copy-ready AI prompts for a full year in review
The one-liners above build single slides; these build whole decks. Upload your files, paste a prompt, replace the brackets. More in our presentation prompts guide.
Using only the attached [year file], [notes] and [photos], build a 12-slide year in review for [team / company] for [the all-hands on December 10], [15] minutes. Slides: title with a verdict, the year in one slide, where we started, goals scorecard, year in numbers, timeline, biggest win, customer voice, people, keep / stop / start, three bets for 2027, thank you and one ask. Every title is a full sentence with the key number; compare every number with 2025 or the target. Use my photos as-is. Add no figure that is not in my files.
Build an 8-slide personal year in review for my [performance review] with [manager], from my attached brag document and goals. Slides: title, my year in one line, goals versus results, top three wins with evidence, projects timeline, feedback quotes, growth, next year and the support I need. Impact, not activity. Say "I led", "we shipped" or "I supported" precisely.
Create an end-of-year slideshow for my [grade 5] class, school year [2025–26], for students and parents. Slides: title, our class in numbers, month by month, projects and trips, a moment for every student, class awards, what we learned, a letter to next year's class, thanks to parents and volunteers. Use my photos as-is; every student appears the same number of times. Warm tone, no grades or rankings.
Build an 8-slide year in review for [organisation] for our board and donors. Separate outputs (what we did) from outcomes (what changed). Include one beneficiary story (consent given, first name only), income and spending by category from the attached statement, volunteers and partners, next year's goals, funding gap and how to help. For "the need", research one context statistic and put its source link on the slide. Financial figures must match my statement exactly.
Make a Wrapped-style slide for our team's 2026 from: [busiest day, top emoji, top channel, cups of coffee, time zones]. One stat per card, big number, bold colours, a playful caption under each. Team totals only; nothing about an individual.
How to build a year in review presentation in NOXI
A team deck takes about an hour once the year file exists. I use NOXI here because it builds timelines, scorecards, big-number grids and data charts as native layouts from your own files, free.
Step 1 — Upload the year file, notes and photos
NOXI reads Excel, CSV, Word, PDF, notes and images. Upload everything from the previous section in one go.
Step 2 — Choose the look: your template or any deck
Apply your company's brand template, or upload last year's review or any PDF or PPTX with the style you want, and NOXI builds the new deck in that style. Almost no other AI presentation tool does this. Our guide to AI presentations in your own template covers the options.
Step 3 — Paste the brief and generate
Paste the prompt for your audience. Claude Opus and GPT-5.5 write from your files, Nano Banana Pro can generate section-divider images, and your photos stay as they are. For outside context, such as a nonprofit's "need" slide, NOXI researches the figure and puts its source link on the slide.
Step 4 — Read only the titles
Read the twelve titles in a row before looking at any slide. If they don't tell the year's story, reorder, merge or cut first.
Step 5 — Edit by chat, fine-tune by hand
Chat for structure: "make slide 6 a month-by-month timeline", "put the offsite photos on slide 9 as-is". Use the drag-and-drop editor for a caption, a crop or a colour, even on a phone.
Step 6 — Check, then export
Tick off every figure against the spreadsheet, every name's spelling and every photo's consent. Then export an editable PowerPoint for the presenter, a PDF to send afterwards and a share link for review. No watermark, no export fee.
Exporting your year in review to PowerPoint: what arrives in the file
A year-in-review deck rarely stays with its author, so the file has to open identical to what you approved and stay editable. NOXI builds the .pptx with its own export engine, rebuilding every slide as native PowerPoint objects:
- The file matches the approved slide: same layout, spacing, colours and typography, on real 16:9 slides.
- Text stays live: titles, captions and names on the shout-out slide are all editable.
- Fonts are embedded, so the deck looks the same on any laptop. In bilingual decks, Arabic letters stay connected and right-to-left layout is kept.
- Photos keep their original quality, which matters in a deck that is half photographs.
- PowerPoint opens it without a repair prompt.
Almost no other AI presentation maker produces a pixel-perfect PowerPoint like this.
Year in review vs annual report, QBR and annual plan
A year in review is presented and informal; an annual report is a formal written record. The QBR and annual plan share its data.
| Document | Looks at | Audience | Main output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year in review | Past 12 months | Team, company, donors | Story, recognition |
| Annual report | Past fiscal year | Shareholders, donors | Formal record |
| QBR | Past quarter | Leadership, client | Decisions |
| Annual plan | Next 12 months | Leadership, board | Targets, budget |
For US public companies the formal version is regulated: the SEC notes that the annual report on Form 10-K usually holds more detail than the annual report to shareholders, which is sometimes a glossy publication [9]. A year in review borrows their headline numbers but replaces neither. The deck that follows it is the annual plan and budget presentation; the one that tracks that plan quarterly is the QBR.
Other ways to make a year in review presentation
The right route depends on where your data lives and what the presenter uses. NOXI publishes this guide; each option is described by what it does best, per vendor pages in September 2026.
| Route | Best for | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| PowerPoint / Google Slides | Full manual control | Included / free |
| Template galleries | Layout starting points | Free–paid |
| Canva | Photo-heavy slideshows | Free plan |
| Copilot in PowerPoint | Microsoft 365 companies | Copilot licence |
| Gemini in Google Slides | Google Workspace teams | Paid plans |
| NOXI | Files and photos to deck | Free |
Template galleries such as Beautiful.ai, Venngage, SlideTeam and Slidesgo give you layouts; Slidesgo's Annual Review theme, for example, has 31 slides for Google Slides, PowerPoint and Canva, free with attribution [10]. You still write the story. Canva has a free plan and is strongest for photo-heavy slideshows and social recap graphics [11]. Copilot in PowerPoint works best from your organisation's template, and on September 14, 2026 Microsoft announced a Brand Kit that feeds it your branding guidance; access depends on your Microsoft 365 plan [12]. Gemini in Google Slides has built full decks from Drive files, and can match another deck's style, since June 30, 2026, in English (US) on eligible plans [13]. NOXI turns your files and photos into a designed deck in your template, free.
Checklist before you present
- The titles tell the year on their own,misses included.
- January's goals appear as set.Any change shown next to the original, with the reason.
- Every number has a comparisonand matches the source file; a second person checks donor or company-wide decks.
- The people slide is complete and correct.Cross-check names and spelling against the team list.
- Photos and quotes are cleared.Consent for photos, written approval for quotes, school policy for students.
- The fun slides are kind.Team totals only, nobody singled out.
- It ends forward.Three bets, thanks, one ask; no "Questions?" slide.
- The file opens on the presenting laptop.Try it there once; keep a PDF copy.
6 common year-in-review mistakes
1. A diary, not a story. Fix: the six-beat arc and action titles.
2. Only good news. Fix: the goals scorecard and one "what didn't work" slide.
3. Numbers without comparison. Fix: last year or the target next to every figure.
4. Thanking "everyone". Fix: names and specific contributions.
5. A photo dump. Fix: nine photos in a collage, the rest looping before the talk.
6. No next year. Fix: three bets with owners, then the thank-you.
Related guides
- Annual plan and budget presentation: template and AI prompts
- QBR presentation: template, slide-by-slide guide and AI prompts
- How to make McKinsey-style slides
- How to make a presentation look professional: 15 design rules
Frequently asked questions
- What should be included in a year in review presentation?
- A one-line verdict on the year, the January baseline, results against your goals, four to six key numbers compared with last year, a timeline of milestones, the biggest win, shout-outs to named people, lessons as keep, stop and start, next year's three priorities, and a thank-you with one clear ask.
- How many slides should a year in review presentation have?
- Ten to twelve slides for a team or company, eight to ten for a personal or class review, and eight to twelve for a nonprofit board or donor meeting. Put detailed tables and the long photo reel in an appendix, and keep fonts at 30 points or larger for a big screen.
- How do you make a year in review presentation fun?
- Add one or two light slides built on real data: a Wrapped-style recap of team stats, superlatives everyone gets, a "guess the number" quiz or January's predictions revisited. Joke about things, not people, use team totals rather than personal stats, and place the fun mid-deck, not at the end.
- What is the difference between a year in review and an annual report?
- A year in review is a presented deck for the people who lived the year, such as employees, a class or volunteers, and it aims to motivate as well as inform. An annual report is a formal written record for shareholders or donors; US public companies file theirs with the SEC on Form 10-K.
- How do I write a year in review for my performance review?
- Build an eight-slide argument about impact: your year in one line, goals versus results, top three wins with evidence, a projects timeline, feedback, growth, and next year's goals with the support you need. Collect material during the year in a running brag document, and credit collaborators precisely.
- What should an end-of-year presentation for students include?
- For a student reflection: what you set out to learn, your three best pieces of work, something hard and how you handled it, what you learned about yourself and goals for next year. For a teacher's class slideshow: class stats, a month-by-month timeline, projects, a moment for every student and positive awards.
- How do nonprofits present their year in review?
- Open with the mission and the change you made, then separate outputs, such as meals served, from outcomes, such as families no longer skipping meals. Add one story told with consent, income and spending that match your audited statements, thanks to volunteers and partners, the funding gap and a specific ask.
- When should you present a year in review?
- Calendar-year companies usually present in December or at a January kickoff; others at the close of their fiscal year. Schools use the last weeks of the school year, and nonprofits often their annual meeting. Label the date your data runs to, because December decks rarely have a full year.
- Can AI make a year in review slideshow from my photos?
- Yes. In NOXI you upload your photos with the year's spreadsheet and notes and ask for the photos to be used as-is; it lays them out in collages and galleries next to the numbers, timeline and shout-outs. You edit by chat or by hand and export a PowerPoint, PDF or share link.
- Is there a free year in review presentation template?
- Yes. The 12-slide structure in this guide works as a free template in PowerPoint or Google Slides, and galleries such as Slidesgo offer free annual-review themes with attribution. NOXI is free and builds the full deck from your own data and photos, in your template, with no watermark on the export.
Sources & methodology
The six-beat arc, the 12-slide structure and the audience versions combine common practice for business reviews, retrospectives and nonprofit reporting; they reflect practice, not a controlled study, and the lengths are rules of thumb. Fieldnote is fictional and its figures are invented. Tool capabilities and prices were checked on official or vendor pages in September 2026 and change often.
- [1] Peak-end rule — Kahneman, Fredrickson, Schreiber and Redelmeier, "When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End", Psychological Science, 1993.
- [2] Ten slides, twenty minutes, no font smaller than 30 points — Guy Kawasaki, The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.
- [3] One in three US workers strongly agree they were recognised in the past seven days; public recognition and awards the most memorable — Gallup, The Importance of Employee Recognition: Low Cost, High Impact.
- [4] The 4 Ls retrospective (loved, loathed, learned, longed for) — Atlassian Team Playbook, Retrospectives.
- [5] "Year in Music" (2015) renamed Wrapped (2016) — Spotify Newsroom, a decade of Spotify Wrapped (December 4, 2024).
- [6] Brag documents for performance reviews — Julia Evans, Get your work recognized: write a brag document (2019).
- [7] Outputs, outcomes and impact in a logic model — W.K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development Guide (via SOPHE).
- [8] About 1 in 12 men has a colour vision deficiency; red-green is most common — National Eye Institute, Color Blindness.
- [9] Form 10-K versus the annual report to shareholders — U.S. SEC, Investor Bulletin: How to Read a 10-K.
- [10] Year-in-review template galleries — Beautiful.ai; Venngage; SlideTeam; Slidesgo, Annual Review.
- [11] Canva plans, including Canva Free — Canva pricing.
- [12] Copilot from your organisation's template, and licensing — Microsoft Support; Brand Kit announced September 14, 2026 — RCPmag.
- [13] Full decks and "match presentation style" in Google Slides (June 30, 2026; English (US); eligible plans) — Google Workspace Updates.
Try NOXI free for your year in review: upload the year's spreadsheet, notes and photos, get a timeline, goals scorecard and year-in-numbers slides in your own template, edit by chat or by hand, and export a PowerPoint with live text and embedded fonts.
