10.5 Speaker notes

Speaker notes are supported in reveal.js, PowerPoint (pptx), and beamer output. You can add notes to your Markdown document thus:

::: notes

This is my note.

- It can contain Markdown
- like this list

:::

To show the notes window in reveal.js, press s while viewing the presentation. Speaker notes in PowerPoint will be available, as usual, in handouts and presenter view.

Notes are not yet supported for other slide formats, but the notes will not appear on the slides themselves.

10.5.1 Speaker notes on the title slide (PowerPoint)

For PowerPoint output, the title slide is generated from the document’s YAML metadata block. To add speaker notes to this slide, use a notes field in the metadata:

---
title: My Presentation
author: Jane Doe
notes: |
  Welcome everyone to this presentation.

  Remember to introduce yourself and mention the key topics.
---

The notes field can contain multiple paragraphs and Markdown formatting.