12 posts tagged with "Excalidraw"

Need diagram tools for Confluence without paying for a large team? NGPILOT's three diagramming apps — Mermaid Plus, Excalidraw Plus, and Graphviz Charts — are all free for up to 10 users. This guide compares them so you can pick the right free diagram plugin for your Confluence.

Adding diagrams to Confluence pages helps teams communicate architecture, processes, and workflows visually. This guide covers the three main approaches to creating diagrams in Confluence and helps you choose the right tool for your needs.

Architecture diagrams are the backbone of technical documentation. They show how services communicate, where data flows, and which infrastructure components underpin your system. When a new engineer joins your team, the first thing they look for is an architecture diagram. When something breaks in production, the incident response starts at the same diagram.

Yet many teams store their architecture diagrams in external tools -- draw.io, Lucidchart, or even desktop applications -- detached from the documentation where they matter most. Confluence is where your runbooks live, where architecture decision records are written, and where post-mortem discussions happen. Keeping your architecture diagrams inside Confluence eliminates context-switching and ensures diagrams evolve alongside the written documentation they illustrate.

This guide walks through three ways to create architecture diagrams directly in Confluence, using NGPILOT apps designed for different workflows. Every Mermaid example is copy-paste ready, so you can insert it into a Confluence page and see the result immediately.

Wireframes are the backbone of every user interface design process. They let product managers, designers, and engineers align on layout, content hierarchy, and interaction flow before writing a single line of code. With Excalidraw Plus for Confluence, you can create wireframes and UI mockups directly inside your Confluence pages, keeping design artifacts next to requirements, user stories, and technical specs.

Choosing the right diagram tool for Confluence depends on what you need to draw and how you prefer to work. This guide compares three NGPILOT apps — Mermaid Plus for Confluence, Excalidraw plus Whiteboards for Confluence, and Excalidraw & Mermaid Diagrams for Confluence — so you can pick the best fit.

Flowcharts are one of the most common diagrams teams add to Confluence pages — for process documentation, onboarding, decision trees, and troubleshooting guides. This article shows three ways to create them using NGPILOT apps.

Excalidraw-powered whiteboards let teams sketch ideas directly inside Jira issues. This quick guide covers creating boards, saving snapshots, and sharing with team members.