Present your slides with speaker notes and a pen

This guide shows you how to deliver a presentation straight from your browser: full screen, with your speaker notes where only you can see them, and a pen for marking things up as you talk.

No download, no cable adapter roulette. If the room has a browser, you can present.

Write speaker notes in the editor

Under the canvas in the editor sits the Speaker notes pane. Open it and write what you want to say on each slide, with bold, italics and lists if you like structure. The notes travel with the slide and never appear on the slide itself.

Notes live under each slide in the editor. The audience never sees them.

Go full screen with Present

Click Present in the top bar and the deck takes over the whole screen, starting from the slide you were on. Move through it however feels natural: click anywhere, use the arrow keys or the space bar. A slide counter sits at the bottom, the controls fade away when your mouse is still, and F toggles fullscreen if you need your desktop back for a moment.

Click, arrow keys or space to advance. The controls fade when you’re not using them.

Keep your notes at hand

Press N, or click the notes button, and your speaker notes dock beside the current slide, following along as you advance. On a projector or a call, use Pop out to new window instead: the notes open in their own window you can drag to your laptop screen, while the audience sees only the slides.

Press N and your notes dock beside the slide, or pop out to a second screen.

Mark it up with the pen

Click the pen button in the bottom controls to open the pen tools:

• Highlighter strokes fade away on their own after a couple of seconds. Circle a number, keep talking, and it cleans up after itself.
• Pen strokes stay on the slide until you clear them.
• Spotlight cursor puts a colored ring around your pointer, the polite version of a laser pointer.

Five ink colors, one click to Clear, and drawings belong to the slide you made them on. While a pen tool is active, clicking draws instead of advancing, so sketch freely.

Highlighter fades on its own. Pen stays until you clear it.

When you can’t present live

Two companions for everything this guide covers: share a read-only link so people can flip through the deck themselves, covered in Make a pitch presentation with AI, or record your delivery as a video with the guide Record a presentation with voiceover.