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Create and edit content

In Confluence, you create content in a space as pages, live docs, blog posts, whiteboards, databases, or Smart Links. Start from scratch, use a template, or use Create with Rovo to quickly generate AI‑drafted content.

Select the Create button in the toolbar, then Create with Rovo to start with a prompt. Describe your needs with a few words, add links, files, or templates for context. Rovo creates a draft that you can preview and edit before adding it to Confluence as a page, live doc, or whiteboard. Use helpers like suggested prompts, speech-to-text, integrated content sources across Atlassian and third-party apps, and web search. When you’re done reviewing and editing the content, select Add to Confluence to create a content item.

If you’re starting with a blank page, live doc, or blogpost you can add a template. Templates are pre-formatted and feature relevant macros and instructions to help you create retros, meeting minutes, how-to-articles, decisions, and more.

You can fill pages, live docs, and blog posts with text and tables, images, and connections to other content. Format and design them to deliver information any way you need. Confluence also lets you use macros and embed files to include dynamic content like videos, Jira work items, roadmaps, and automated reports.

The differences between written content types include the following:

  • Published pages start as drafts and live in the content tree. You can maintain multiple versions and have separate view and edit modes, making them ideal for documentation or policy creation. You can have pages under pages (under pages), giving your content structure and highlighting relationships between pages. You mihgt have a parent page about cats, and then child pages underneath about different breeds of cats.

  • Live docs never have to be published and are best for fast, real-time, and collaborative work. They’re perfect for capturing meeting notes, group reviews, or idea sessions. They’re also organized in the content tree and can nest, like pages. Pages and live docs can be converted into each other as needed anytime.

  • Blog posts are available in the Blog section of a space and are grouped chronologically. This makes them more suited to announcements, news, and updates. 

Every Confluence space, including your personal space, allows you to create pages and live docs in it, and has its own blog in which you can create posts. Available features can depend on how you set up your space and how your admin configures Confluence.

Other types of content

Whiteboards help teams act on ideas faster. Use whiteboards to brainstorm ideas, run retrospectives, and plan work. Visualize relationships and project plans using deep integrations with Jira and other projects.

Databases store structured data directly. Like other content, they appear in the content tree, can be searched, linked, and have space-level permissions. They connect and organize structured data like customer IDs and unstructured data like notes and images.

Smart Links are a way to add a link to the content tree to access content from other spaces, apps, and third-party integrations.

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