Adding Speaker Notes to Title Slide of Revealjs Presentation

[DeanVogt]

Is it possible to add speaker notes to the title slide of a Revealjs presentation produced in Quarto? I know how to add notes to all other slides, but not the title slide. (I don't think it matters, but I'm using JupyterLab.)

[mcanouil]

You'll have to modify the title slide partial, see https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html#revealjs-partials.
I don't believe there is another way to do that.

Note that, you could also add a yaml key "note" into the partial which would allow you to specify notes for the title slide.

[cderv]

Link to revealjs doc about this too: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/advanced.html#custom-template

Otherwise, there is probably an option using a revealjs specificity, and Pandoc feature.

• From revealjs doc https://revealjs.com/speaker-view/ you can use a data-notes attributes

Alternatively you can add your notes in a data-notes attribute on the slide. Like <section data-notes="Something important"></section>.

• Considering how Pandoc, and thus Quarto works, you can add attributes to title slide using title-slide-attributes

Try this example

---
title: Test
title-slide-attributes: 
  data-notes: Some speaker notes
format: revealjs
---

## content 

::: notes
Some other notes
:::

See also this comment jgm/pandoc#5237 (comment) that gives some details.

Hope it helps

[jimjam-slam]

I do a twist on this where I leave the the title out of the frontmatter, and then I use an HTML slide title instead of a Markdown one (so that the h2 isn't used to insert a blank slide). I think essentially I'm just cancelling the title slide altogether.

---
format: revealjs
---

::: {.notes}
Hi, I'm James! I should say some things!
:::

<h2>The best talk ever</h2>

By James

## It has a second slide

...

[cderv]

Yes, only side effect with this is that you don't get any Title slide styling. The first slide is just a regular slide.

Not sure about the <h2> tag because if you don't use it , you should get the same result

---
format: revealjs
---

## The best talk ever

By James

::: {.notes}
Hi, I'm James! I should say some things!
:::

## It has a second slide

...

Overall you are indeed removing title slide and using custom normal slide, so that works.

[jimjam-slam]

Ahh yeah, I forgot—I'm just styling the first slide myself 😅