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Create Mind Maps in Confluence — Free with Mermaid Plus

· 12 min read

Mind maps are one of the most effective ways to capture ideas, organize thoughts, and brainstorm with a team. Unlike linear notes or bullet lists, mind maps radiate outward from a central topic, making it easy to see relationships between concepts at a glance. If your team already uses Confluence for documentation, meeting notes, and project planning, adding mind maps directly to your Confluence pages keeps brainstorming sessions alongside the rest of your team's knowledge.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create mind maps in Confluence using Mermaid syntax and the Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence app. Every example is copy-paste ready, so you can drop it straight into a Confluence page and start organizing your ideas immediately.

Create Pie Charts in Confluence — Free with Mermaid Syntax

· 18 min read

Pie charts are one of the simplest and most effective ways to communicate proportional data. Whether you are reporting survey results, breaking down a project budget, or showing how your team allocates time across activities, a pie chart turns a list of numbers into a visual that anyone can read in seconds. Confluence is where your team already stores reports, retrospectives, and planning documents, so embedding pie charts directly on those pages keeps your data alongside the context that explains it.

With Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence, you can create pie charts and other data visualizations using plain text syntax. No image exports, no spreadsheet screenshots, no broken attachments. You write the code once, and the chart renders directly on the Confluence page, updating whenever you edit the underlying data.

How to Create Sequence Diagrams in Confluence (Mermaid Examples)

· 13 min read

Sequence diagrams are one of the most practical tools in a software team's documentation toolkit. They show how objects, services, or actors interact over time, making them ideal for documenting API flows, authentication processes, microservice choreography, and error-handling logic. If your team uses Confluence for documentation, embedding sequence diagrams directly on your pages keeps architecture docs alongside everything else your team needs.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create sequence diagrams in Confluence using Mermaid syntax. Every example is copy-paste ready, so you can drop it straight into a Confluence page and see the result immediately. The examples use Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence, which renders the full Mermaid v12 syntax natively in Confluence Cloud — free to try from the Marketplace.

Create State Diagrams in Confluence — Mermaid Syntax & Examples

· 17 min read

State diagrams (also called state machine diagrams) model how a system transitions between discrete states in response to events. They are essential for documenting order lifecycles, user authentication flows, CI/CD pipelines, IoT device behavior, and any system where the current state determines what happens next. If your team uses Confluence for technical documentation, embedding state diagrams directly on your pages keeps your design decisions alongside runbooks, architecture decision records, and sprint planning notes.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create state diagrams in Confluence using the Mermaid stateDiagram-v2 syntax. Every example is copy-paste ready, so you can drop it straight into a Confluence page and see the rendered result immediately.

Best Diagram Tool for Confluence — Mermaid vs Excalidraw vs Graphviz

· 9 min read

Looking for the best diagram tool for Confluence? Confluence has no built-in diagramming, so every team adds a Marketplace app — but the right choice depends entirely on what you draw and how you prefer to work. This guide compares the three strongest options — Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence, Excalidraw plus Whiteboards for Confluence, and Graphviz Charts for Confluence — so you can pick the diagram tool that fits your team instead of guessing.

Quick answer

For most Confluence teams, Mermaid Plus is the best diagram tool — it covers the widest range (30 diagram types), is the easiest to learn, and renders text into diagrams that version cleanly with your docs. Pick Excalidraw Plus if you need freehand whiteboarding and wireframes. Pick Graphviz Charts for dense network and dependency graphs. Many teams install more than one.

What you'll learn
  1. Which diagram tool fits each type of Confluence team
  2. The strengths and trade-offs of Mermaid, Excalidraw, and Graphviz
  3. Pricing, hosting, and integration differences
  4. A decision framework so you can choose in under a minute

Create Mermaid diagrams in Confluence: a step-by-step guide

· 5 min read

Mermaid diagrams in Confluence let you create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and more using simple text syntax. This guide covers Confluence Mermaid setup with Mermaid Plus — live preview, 30 diagram types, and copy-paste examples.

Who should read this
  • Developers adding diagrams to Confluence documentation
  • Teams switching from draw.io to text-based diagrams (see Excalidraw vs draw.io if you're comparing visual tools too)
  • Anyone needing flowcharts, sequence diagrams, or ER diagrams in Confluence
What you'll learn
  1. How to set up Mermaid in Confluence
  2. Creating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts
  3. All 30 supported diagram types with examples
  4. Troubleshooting common issues

Best Diagram App for Jira — 2026 Comparison with Mermaid & Excalidraw

· 7 min read

Every engineering team needs diagrams in Jira — architecture decisions on epics, bug reproduction flows on tickets, wireframes on stories. But Jira has no built-in diagramming. You either paste screenshots from external tools or install a marketplace app.

We built two diagram apps for Jira: Mermaid+ Diagrams for Jira for text-based diagrams using Mermaid syntax (flowcharts, sequence diagrams, ER models, C4 architecture), and Excalidraw Diagrams + Whiteboards for Jira for freeform drawing with 229 built-in shape libraries. In this post we compare both against every alternative on the Atlassian Marketplace.

Mermaid App Roundup for Confluence — Mermaid Plus vs Stratus vs weweave

· 6 min read

Engineering teams need diagrams in Confluence — flowcharts for runbooks, sequence diagrams for API docs, ER models for database schemas, architecture diagrams for design decisions. Writing diagrams as code (text-based syntax) is faster than drag-and-drop for developers. Mermaid is the most popular text-based diagram language.

Several marketplace apps bring Mermaid to Confluence, plus the major visual diagramming tools (draw.io, Gliffy, Lucidchart) also support it. We built Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence to offer 30 diagram types with live preview, one-click templates, and a built-in syntax guide. In this post we compare it against every alternative.