The idea of a scrapbook is to give you a place to stack useful objects and information that will make you more efficient at building high-quality PowerPoint presentations.  

A good scrapbook is a highly personal collection.  The example here is not intended to be your ideal scrapbook.  It is shown here mostly to give you ideas of what a scrapbook can contain.

I like to make my own bullets.  I dislike the standard PowerPoint bullets.  They are too small and not at all interesting.

This page shows some alternatives.  You can't use them the same way as a standard PowerPoint bullet, but you can copy and paste them into your presentation so that they look like regular bullet points.

Callouts are a standard PowerPoint autoshape object.  Why have them here?

What I've done with these callouts is to modify the standard design with line weights and colors that I find more useful in my presentations.  By copying these callouts -- rather than choosing new ones off the PowerPoint menu -- I get all the proper formatting.

This makes me more efficient and helps guarantee that my entire presentation will have a consistent appearance.

I use maps in a lot of my presentations.  It is useful for me to have some good maps that I know are appropriate for the types of presentations that I give.  You will see that I have several slides that have other collections of frequently-used objects.

Here are some of the logos that I put into presentations.

I use signs because they have a lot of metaphorical value.

There are a lot of other useful metaphorical icons.  You don't want to build a huge collection.  Use the scrapbook for those clip art objects that you expect to use frequently.

You can even save formats for your slides.  Here is my standard bullet slide layout.

All I need to do is to copy it, and then paste it on a set of blank slides when I start to build a new presentation.

It is easy to simply click on the text of one of these new slides and modify it to what I want on that slide.

All the positioning is done automatically.  All the slides are consistent in appearance.

I started building "blackboards" so that I could put text on a colored background.  The color combinations were carefully chosen so that they would work well under most presentation conditions.

I wanted to have a way to give a slightly different appearance to my talks, yet keep the design very simple.

You can see some alternative blackboard designs here.

Finally, a few more blackboard designs.

Note that these work just like the other objects in this scrapbook.  You copy them from here and paste them into a new presentation.  Then you make any of the necessary modifications to the content.

Think about what you would put into your own scrapbook.  I think that you'll find one useful.