How to print full presenter notes without slides in Keynote - Answer to https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/136118/how-to-print-full-presenter-notes-without-slides-in-keynote

extract-keynotes-notes.applescript

global presenterNotes
tell application "Keynote"
	activate
	open (choose file)
	tell front document
		do shell script "rm -f ~/keynote-notes.txt"
		set num to 0
		repeat with aSlide in every slide
			set num to num + 1
			do shell script "echo '-- " & num & " --' >> ~/keynote-notes.txt"
			set slideNote to presenter notes of aSlide as text
			do shell script "echo '" & slideNote & "' >> ~/keynote-notes.txt"
			do shell script "echo '' >> ~/keynote-notes.txt"
		end repeat
	end tell
	quit application "Keynote"
end tell

Thanks for posting your version of this script. I would just note that the global variable should probably be slideNote and also that the pbpaste in the original script is better because it has no problems with single quotes in the presenter notes.

...
set the clipboard to slideNote
do shell script "pbpaste >> ~/keynote-notes.txt"
...

Hmmm, I was able to successfully run the script on stackexchange and it dumped the notes onto the clipboard. I just copied it into ScriptEditor and hit the "run" triangle button. But the script here gives errors when I try to run it the same way, ScriptEditor result is:

error "Keynote got an error: sh: line 4: Advisory: command not found
sh: line 6: Always: command not found
sh: line 8: Explain: command not found
sh: line 9: Current: command not found
sh: line 11: Apology: command not found
sh: line 12: The: command not found
sh: line 13: We: command not found
sh: line 14: This: command not found
sh: -c: line 15: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
sh: -c: line 16: syntax error: unexpected end of file" number 2

Maybe the tbrk comment is the solution - but I don't know how to make the change? Thanks!

This will break if the speaker notes contain any single-quote characters ('). Here's a more robust version, tested with Keynote 14.4 (September 2025). It also creates a unique new file on each run, in case you want to review older / newer version of your notes:

tell application "Keynote"
    activate
    open (choose file)
    tell front document
        set timestamp to do shell script "date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'"
        set outputFile to "~/keynote-notes-" & timestamp & ".txt"
        set num to 0
        repeat with aSlide in every slide
            set num to num + 1
            do shell script "echo '-- " & num & " --' >> " & outputFile
            set slideNote to presenter notes of aSlide as text
            set quotedNote to quoted form of slideNote
            do shell script "echo " & quotedNote & " >> " & outputFile
            do shell script "echo '' >> " & outputFile
        end repeat
        do shell script "echo 'Notes saved to: " & outputFile & "'"
    end tell
    quit application "Keynote"
end tell