Atlassian Tips

How can I make my Confluence pages more engaging? Should I improve the content itself, work more on its structure, insert more macros? Well, the answer is all of the above.  Combining well written content, layout techniques, and the large array of macros should and will help you create pages that are easy to navigate and engage with.

How do we make searching and filtering Jira work items more efficient especially in cross functional projects? Using descriptive titles, choosing the right work item type, the right project, priority, and so on are all viable options. But still, we might end up spending some precious time just browning projects or asking our teammates.

When creating content in Confluence, walls of text are your worst enemy. Upon landing, your readers won’t have any direction and won’t be able to distinguish between sections and which ones matter the most. Obviously this makes navigation challenging and leads to low engagement rates. To fix this there is one really simple yet effective feature that comes natively in Confluence: Headings. 

Ever wondered about the best way to showcase the latest news and timely announcements on a Confluence page? Tabs, cards, panels… or expanders? All are plausible options, but each comes with its fair share of limitations.

When you open a Confluence page and the first thing you see is a table of contents, you’re in for an adventure, but at least a guided one. A guided one if the headings are clear, the table is well structured and placed. 

When accessing a Confluence page, you’ve got to give users some kind of direction to facilitate navigation, guarantee engagement, and make their experience smooth. Lucky for us, we have a host of macros (both built-in and from Atlassian Marketplace) to help us achieve just that.

What do meeting notes, project plans, and onboarding sessions have in common? If you guessed Confluence task lists and action items, you'd be absolutely right. In this article, we’ll see why action items matter, how to create and make the most out of them.

In this article, we’ll break down exactly what Live Docs are, how to use them, and the dos and don’ts to keep your workflow smooth and your content clean.

Here’s the scenario: You’re working on a Confluence page and there are some key elements that you want to highlight. What would you do? Obviously, you have a variety of options to choose from, both native and third party such as comments, tooltips, and more.

We all love Confluence macros. They’re the difference between structured, easy to navigate pages or a confusing mess. But with the variety of both built-in and third party macros, we’re often prone to misuse some of them resulting in an overall bad experience and, of course, low engagement rates.

Here's the scenario: You’re working on some Confluence pages for a specific project or team space. How would you organize your content so team members can easily access them?

The key for a well-structured Confluence space is to organize content using page trees. Up to this point, we were kind of limited in terms of what we can include in there. Pages were pretty much our only option. But now things have changed. We can add a variety of content formats including whiteboards, databases, and the highly anticipated feature: Folders.