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Collecting feedback

Feedback notes are short red notes pinned to a point on a slide: comments from a practice talk, reminders to fix something, or reviewers' suggestions. The audience never sees them, and they are not part of the slides' code. They are stored in feedback.json beside the deck, so adding them never re-renders a slide.

Add feedback during a practice talk

  1. Start Presenter View.
  2. Click Feedback Mode at the top of the presenter window, or press F.
  3. Click the current slide where the comment belongs, and type. Clicks now add notes instead of advancing the show.
  4. Press Esc or ⌘↩ to finish a note.
  5. Click Feedback Mode again, or press F, to go back to advancing with clicks.

Slides with notes get a red dot in the presenter window's sidebar.

Edit feedback in the editor

Feedback notes are shown over the canvas in the editor, on the slide they belong to. There you can:

  • Drag a note's frame to move it.
  • Click its text to edit it.
  • Click its close button to delete it, or empty its text and press ⌫.

Each note remembers the build it was written on.

Review feedback

Click View Feedback on the Home bar. The feedback list opens in the inspector's place, with every note grouped by slide.

  • Click a note to go to its slide with the note outlined, ready to edit.
  • Use Previous and Next to walk through the notes in order.
  • Delete notes one at a time, or all of them with Delete All.

Click Done to return to the inspector.

Save and share feedback

Feedback notes are part of the working copy, so File ▸ Save to Original saves them with the deck, and closing without saving discards them. They travel with the deck when you package it for sharing, so a reviewer can add notes and send the deck back.