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Overview and notes pages

Besides the slides, the presenter and /notes, a deck has three pages of its own, as in Slidev.

Address What it shows
/overview Every slide in a list, with a clicks slider under it and its notes beside it. On a narrow screen the notes go below each slide.
/entry Links to the slides, the presenter, the notes, the overview and, while the dev server runs, the notes editor. Open it on a second device to pick a page.
/notes-edit Every note of the deck in one text, while the dev server runs.

The button at the top of the quick overview (o) opens /overview. With dev --remote, /overview and /notes-edit need the password, like the presenter.

Edit the notes

While the dev server runs, a double click on a note in /overview, or Enter on it, turns it into a text box. Leaving the text saves it into the markdown file, and Escape cancels. A live region says how the save ended, "Saved." or "Not saved.".

/notes-edit has every note after a --- #N line, where N is the slide number:

--- #1
Say hello.

--- #2
[click] Then show the first point.

The notes that changed are saved after a short pause. Keep the --- #N lines as they are: a text whose lines were changed is not saved. Saving rebuilds the deck and reloads the page, and the page keeps the caret and what you typed meanwhile.

  • A --> in a note would end the HTML comment early, so it is written -- >, as in the presenter's note editor.
  • Each line takes its direction from its first letter, so a line that mixes Arabic and Latin keeps its order.
  • The notes of a slide imported from outside the deck's folder cannot be edited here.

The presenter page has its own note editor, see Presenter mode.

Limits

  • /notes-edit and the note editing of /overview work only while the dev server runs. A static build leaves /notes-edit out, and /overview shows the notes read-only.
  • The names overview, entry and notes-edit cannot be a routeAlias, see Slide addresses.