Notes and alt text

The drawer under the canvas has three tabs for words that go with a slide but are not drawn on it: Slide Notes, Build Notes and Alt Text. Choose View ▸ Speaker Notes (⌥⌘K) to open or close the drawer on the notes. Drag the divider above the drawer to give it more or less room.

Speaker notes

Speaker notes are shown to you in Presenter View, never to the audience.

• Slide Notes belong to the whole slide and are shown on every build of it.
• Build Notes belong to the build on screen only, and are shown after the slide's notes when that build is up.

Click in the tab and type; the notes are saved when you click elsewhere. Adding or changing notes doesn't re-render the slide.

In the code, notes are written as the notes= argument of a self.next_slide(...) call, marked # manimble notes. This is the format Manim Slides itself uses, so notes written in Manimble also appear in Manim Slides' own presenter.

Pictures in notes

Notes can include pictures, such as a figure to remember or a screenshot of a reference. Paste a picture into the notes, or click the picture button on the notes tab to choose files. Each picture is copied into the deck folder and stored in the notes as a Markdown image (![](note_1a2b3c4d.png)), which the notes tabs and Presenter View show inline.

Typing notes during a presentation

In Presenter View, click a notes panel to type into it. Press Esc or ⌘↩, or click elsewhere, to save the notes and give the keys back to the show.

Alt text

Alt Text is a description of the slide for people who can't see it, such as people using a screen reader. Type a sentence or two describing what the slide shows.

Alt text is stored in the slide's class as alt_text = "...". It isn't drawn and doesn't re-render the slide. When you export to PowerPoint, a slide that becomes a single picture carries its alt text as the picture's description, so screen readers read it aloud.