## [Mind Maps & Hierarchy Diagrams in Confluence with Mermaid (Copy-Paste)](/blog/mermaid-mindmap-hierarchy-diagram-confluence.md)

September 24, 2026 ·

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The kickoff note is 40 lines of indented bullets with three levels of bolded sub-points, and half the room is still asking "so what are we actually deciding today?" The other half is screenshotting a mind map someone whiteboarded in five minutes. The whiteboard died at cleanup; the bullets survived but nobody can navigate them. A mind map is the *readable* version of nested notes — and when it lives in Confluence as Mermaid text, it survives the meeting.

**Quick answer:** turn nested notes into a Mermaid `mindmap` in Confluence, rendered by [Mermaid Plus for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1236814/mermaid-plus-diagrams-for-confluence/). The indented text you already write becomes the branches; for concrete structures — folder layouts, project trees — use `treeView`; when item size matters and you want area instead of lines, use `treemap`. This post gives you three copy-paste examples.

**Tags:**

* [confluence](/blog/tags/confluence.md)
* [mermaid](/blog/tags/mermaid.md)
* [mindmap](/blog/tags/mindmap.md)
* [treeview](/blog/tags/treeview.md)
* [treemap](/blog/tags/treemap.md)
* [brainstorming](/blog/tags/brainstorming.md)
* [how-to](/blog/tags/how-to.md)

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