# Show your speaker notes to viewers

[Canonical article](https://slides.com/docs/sharing-decks-with-speaker-notes)

Your [speaker notes](/docs/speaker-notes) are private by default. Sharing them turns a deck into a self-guided presentation, which is useful for lectures, tutorials, and decks that people read on their own.

To share your notes with everyone who views the deck, turn on **Share notes** in the presentation settings. Your notes then appear in every presentation view and are included in HTML exports. [PDF exports](/docs/export-to-pdf) include them by default too.

&lt;img src=&quot;https://static.slid.es/help/sharing-decks-with-speaker-notes/share-notes-setting-2x-135161c6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Share notes option in presentation settings&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;460&quot;&gt;

Shared speaker notes appear alongside the current slide. See an [example presentation](https://slides.com/news/share-slide-notes/) with shared notes enabled.

&lt;img src=&quot;https://static.slid.es/help/sharing-decks-with-speaker-notes/shared-notes-view-2x-fa90ec1e.png&quot; alt=&quot;Shared speaker notes shown beside the Acme Titan 3000 presentation&quot; width=&quot;1280&quot; height=&quot;485&quot;&gt;