Use the speaker view

Anatomy of a speaker view

The speaker view contains several elements:

A mirror of the presentation.
A timer and clock.
Your notes.

You can open it by pressing s after opening the presentation.

Adding notes

You can add notes with the speaker-notes action.

{speaker-note}
My note

{speaker-note}
> Another node
>
> With multiple paragraphs

A speaker note is not displayed in the presentation. When the speaker-note action is executed, the note replaces the current note in the speaker view.

You can also have the speaker note and its execution be split by using an identifier:

{#my-note}
It's more readable for this speaker note to be here

Lots of content and actions.

{speaker-note=my-note}

Finally, it is possible to have the notes appear at the same time as any other action:

{#title}
# Hello

{speaker-note up=title}
My note

The speaker view and complex workflow

Slipshow tries to synchronize the two presentation view. For instance, if you press Right arrow in one, it changes step in both. Similarly for drawing.

However, there are things that cannot really be synchronized. For instance, if you write text in an input box. In this case, I encourage you to mirror your screen and not the presentation. Slipshow will soon support that out of the box.