Select a slide, choose Notes above the preview, then type or paste into the Speaker Notes field. Notes are saved with the slide. In native Figma Slides, this field is separate from Figma's own presenter notes.

Exporting your speaker notes to a text file

You can instantly export all of the speaker notes you've added to your slides in the Pitchdeck plugin by clicking the export icon button in the Speaker Notes area at the bottom of the plugin window. This will let you save a .txt file containing all of your notes to your computer.

Saving file downloads from Figma If you're using the Figma desktop app, you'll see a prompt appear to download your file. However, if you're using Figma in a web browser, your file will automatically be downloaded to your computer by default (usually to the Downloads directory on your computer).

Present and rehearse

Choose Present to start at the current slide, or use its menu to start from the beginning. Presenter view shows the current slide, next slide, speaker notes and elapsed time. On slides with click animations, a progress strip under This slide shows how many clicks are left before the next slide. Use Rehearse to record per-slide durations; finish the rehearsal to save those timings in the deck's settings.

To record a narrated run-through, choose Record and allow microphone access. Record appears only where the host allows microphone access; in hosts without it, upload narration in Narration and audio cues instead. Presenting starts from the first slide; talk through each slide and click as you normally would. Choose Finish recording to save one narration cue per slide (up to 2 minutes or 2 MB each), your per-slide timings, and the moment of each click. MP4 export uses those click times so each build lands where you clicked. Existing narration stays silent while you record, and each new take replaces that slide's cue; use Undo to restore the previous cues.

After a rehearsal, the toolbar shows whether you're On pace, ahead or behind compared with your rehearsed timings.

Press L for a laser pointer and D to draw on the slide, or use Laser and Pen below the slide; press E to erase. Drawings clear when you change slides and show in Audience view. Press Esc to put the tool down.

Captions show timed text over the slide in Presenter (press C), are burned into MP4 exports and can be turned on in Local HTML presentations. Create them in Narration and audio cues: From speaker notes splits the notes into captions timed across the slide's narration, and you can edit each caption's start, end and text. Use as speaker notes copies caption text into the notes. When you record a run-through, select Transcribe captions to turn your narration into captions as you speak; this uses your browser's speech service, which may send audio to its provider, and is available only where the browser supports it.

Choose Audience view before sharing the plugin window. It hides the private console. The plugin's presenter and audience views use the same window. For a separate audience window, export a Local HTML presentation.

Use the playback controls to pause, replay, seek, move through click builds or black out the slide. Press Escape to close the presentation.

Enabling Include Speaker Notes puts notes in the exported HTML deck's files. The audience window hides their display; it does not remove them from the distributed files. Leave the option off when sharing a deck whose notes should stay private.

Story workspace and reviewed revisions

Open Story workspace and targeted revisions from Commands. Record one main message, evidence or sources, speaking notes and approval status for each slide. The estimated speaking time uses 140 words per minute.

For a targeted revision, enter an instruction and choose Copy revision prompt. Use it in your preferred AI tool, then paste the returned JSON. Pitchdeck does not send the prompt automatically. Review changes shows before and after text; apply only the selected revisions. Approved slides are protected until you unapprove them. If the source text changed after review, the proposal must be reviewed again.

Split an overloaded text block previews continuation text, then creates 2 to 10 slides using the same source design. The original slide remains intact. Revisions and splitting use Figma Undo. Check text fitting and the resulting design before presenting.