Option to display presenter notes in PDF export
H Jones
Pitch decks often have a lot of background info and context that gets recorded only in the speaker notes. However, pitch decks are frequently shared for async review. The ability to share a special version of the deck w/notes and/or exporting a PDF with notes appended to each slide would provide immediate value for founders and anyone else who use visually spartan decks. Otherwise, I'm stuck creating a second deck and manually attaching all the notes for async context, which is a huge time suck.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Hi H Jones, thanks for the suggestion. I'll cut a ticket to look into this.
So I have the correct understanding:
- Are you sharing a link, or a PDF/PPT?
- If the notes were appended to a PDF, how would you expect them to be styled? Below the card, to the side, etc
If you're sharing gammas via link, footnotes, toggles and nested cards all are good ways to hide additional detail and notes. But they don't work as well if you're exporting, since they get expanded inline.
Jenn Fir
Nik Payne (Gamma design) Ideally, I'd like to share a link OR a PDF/PPT.
As far as exported PDF styling, I think it'd be easiest to follow Microsoft Powerpoint's existing PPT slides + speaker notes print formatting [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/print-slides-with-or-without-speaker-notes-02952fc2-2921-4305-b8b2-e98644a93e06]. That would be most familiar for PPT users, and reduce your design load.
I have absolutely used the heck out of footnotes, toggles, and nested cards to provide additional context! but as you mentioned, their inline expansion when exported is not ideal. I'm looking for a one-document, multi-output solution: I can present it live with speaker notes and I can also export that same preso as a PDF with speaker notes/context provided by other inline elements but formatted for easy readability (example: one slide per page, with supporting content expanded into simple paragraph text format, separated by headers like Speaker Notes, Footnotes, and the titles of nested cards). Let me know if you'd like sketches; I've done quite a bit of UI/UX design and would be happy to dump my brain onto paper.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Jenn Fir: Thanks so much for the detail. Yeah, we'd love some sketches (I'll drop them in our company slack). The caveat being this is likely low priority for us in the immediate future (we're a small team of 16). You can email me at nik@gamma.app
We did just ship speakers notes in PPT export a couple days ago (they were missing previously) so the V1 of this is live
Jenn Fir
Nik Payne (Gamma design) Excellent, this will help a lot. I can export a PPT as a PDF from there... it won't be nearly as pretty (I love my gradient titles) but it will be serviceable++.