Google Slides Auto Resize Speaker Notes

Automatically resize the slide previews when the Speaker Notes window is resized, or drag the sidebar to manually select a size.

What is Google Slides Auto Resize Speaker Notes?

Google Slides Auto Resize Speaker Notes is an easy-to-use Chrome extension designed to increase the usefulness of Google Slides Speaker Notes tool. It offers an automatic and manual resizing of the slide previews which are initially too tiny and unreadable. Moreover, it also features offline mode, relocation of the timer, and supports multiple languages.

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By: https://deanattali.com

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 7,000+

Rating: 4.64 (45)

Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2023-04-28)

Creation date: 2018-11-14

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

declarativeContent
https://docs.google.com/presentation/*
https://docs.google.com/*/presentation/*
storage

Size: 78.98K

Email: de*****@attalitech.com

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 11622 ▲ 560

Other rankings

#3591 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 10 #29 in resize keyword 40 ▼ 3 #108 in size keyword 9 ▼ 3 #170 in works offline keyword 23 ▼ 21 #238 in preview keyword 17 ▼ 3

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Code available at: https://github.com/daattali/gslides-betternotes-extension

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Description

The slide previews in the Speaker Notes window of Google Slides are tiny and unreadable. This extension fixes this in two ways: the slides are automatically enlarged when the Speaker Notes window is resized, and you can also drag the sidebar to manually select the perfect slides size.

If you've ever used Google Slides (or MS PowerPoint/anything similar), you may be aware of the Speaker Notes feature - it allows you to view the current and next slides as well as the text notes for the current slide . However, for some weird reason, the Speaker Notes in Google Slides only allocates a very small area for the slides preview, while giving the notes almost all the space. There is no possible way to resize the slide thumbnail, which makes the slide preview almost useless.

Demo

If you don't have a Google Slides document to experiment with/verify this problem, you can test it out with this sample Google Slides presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18svsKPFNQrBLOSAmOouD410kX9fuaNp3e1K1GTTBLiU/edit?usp=sharing

User reviews

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Pros

Life saver for managing speaker notes
Automatically resizes speaker notes for better visibility
Easy to use and quick setup
Fills a gap left by Google Slides
Great for presentations, allowing better slide visibility

Cons

Functionality may degrade with updates to Chrome
Not as clean as it could be
Speaker notes resizing is somewhat limited
May be less necessary due to Google's updates

Most mentioned

Google hasn't added this feature themselves
Amazing extension and very useful
Thank you for creating this add-on
Lifesaver for presentations

User reviews

Love it! life saver but....google keeps updating its chrome browser and each time it does that it seems to not work as well... could you please update the addon?

KIM EUIMIN, 2019-07-11

This extension has been amazing and I've been using it for years! Google has FINALLY stopped dragging their feet though and will add it in the coming weeks. Thanks for all your work on this Dean! You've saved us where Google fell short! https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/06/slides-present-mode-updates.html