I’ve been experimenting with using Figma as a presentation tool instead of Keynote/GSlides, on the theory that editing and theming should be a lot easier with components (and I should be able to achieve a more polished result).
The biggest challenge so far is speaker notes: showing my notes on one display, synced to the presentation (prototype) on the other. I’ve been able to jury-rig something on my Mac with an AppleScript, but wondered if there’s a better way. I don’t see anything in the Figma APIs to help with this; the closest I see is a node-id query parameter in the URL for the prototype, but not 100% sure how that works.
Any ideas?
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Hey, also wondering how to do this. Right now I have presenter notes on the bottom of my presentation slide frames- but this only works for Zoom meetings zoom where I can set a custom screen share size. Google Meet doesn’t offer that feature, and my presenter notes are shown to everyone.
The only other idea I have is to have speaker notes on my iPad but requires me to advance the slide 2 times (once on each device).
Would you mind sharing the AppleScript solution?
A hack I use is opening the same file in two different Figma windows and only share one in presentation mode. Then I add my speaker notes outside of the presentation frames. And I do agree, we need speaker notes 
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I also use @Ka_Utrera two-screen technique but put my speaker notes in the comments, and use the follow feature to mirror slide control. This lets me keep both prototype windows in sync.
There are also advanced techniques to view your full speaker notes in comments without clicking on them, using a browser such as Safari, but I can’t share those techniques publicly.
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