Explain data and relationships easily with stylable visual hierarchies and mind maps directly in Confluence
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Create mind maps for Confluence and other tree charts in seconds with our professional mind mapping solution directly integrated with your Confluence pages!
Mind maps are a great way to visualize and communicate your ideas. A key benefit of mind maps is that they allow you to break down large and complex concepts into smaller, more manageable pieces. Use them for brainstorming, project planning, building an organizational chart, or structuring a content tree for your documentation.
Add colors, key highlights and symbols (Emojis) to enhance your messaging. Export or print for presentation and sharing. Free for up to 10 users.
Creating a Confluence mindmap becomes easy. To create a new node, just press + and start typing. Mindmaps Pro for Confluence supports efficient multi-creation of nodes, so after you have input the description of your new task, just press Enter and you can directly continue writing to key in the description of your next task, and so on. This allows you to create mind maps quickly, whether you are building a mind map template for your team or a one-off org chart.
A quick way to create mind maps in Confluence
Create mind maps and structured data hierarchies easily with Mindmaps Pro for Confluence. Add a new mind map to any of your Confluence pages with the /mindmap macro, and edit your maps for Confluence using the interactive visual editor. You can now directly and quickly build out org charts, content trees, or any hierarchical structure your team needs.
Style your mind maps with colors and symbols to highlight specific items
Use colors and symbols to make it easier for your audience to quickly overview how certain items belong together, or emphasize specific nodes to stand out from the others. Whether you are creating an organizational chart, a content tree, or a brainstorming mind map, add symbols to enhance the messaging and make your Confluence pages more visually engaging.
Print or export to PDF your mind maps
Use the print view dialog to print or export your Confluence mind map to PDF or other formats supported by your native system print service.
Visualizing hierarchies in Confluence: Comparing the approaches in 2026
Confluence offers several ways to display structured and hierarchical information on your Confluence pages. Whether you need to create mind maps for brainstorming, build an organizational chart for your team, or lay out a content tree for your documentation, here is how the different approaches compare.
1. Page tree macro (built-in)
The page tree macro displays a hierarchy of Confluence pages based on parent-child page relationships. It is useful for navigation - giving readers a quick overview of related Confluence pages in a structured tree. However, the page tree macro is limited to reflecting the existing page structure. You cannot create mind maps, org charts, or custom hierarchies with it. The tree macro displays only page titles, and the structure is tied to how your pages are organized, not to any custom data or ideas you want to visualize.
2. Content tree and table of contents macros
The content tree and table of contents macros display heading-based or section-based hierarchies within a single Confluence page. These are helpful for long-form documents where readers need to navigate between sections. Like the page tree macro, these are limited to reflecting existing content structure. They cannot be used to create mind maps, build an organizational chart, or visualize arbitrary relationships. There is no interactive editing, no styling with colors or key highlights, and no support for custom hierarchies beyond what the document headings provide.
3. Third-party org chart and diagramming tools
Several Confluence marketplace apps offer diagramming capabilities, including the ability to create org charts and flowcharts. These general-purpose tools can produce org charts and other diagrams, but are typically not optimized for the fast creation of tree hierarchies and mind maps. Building an organizational chart or content tree in a general diagramming tool often requires manually positioning shapes and drawing connectors, which is time-consuming for larger structures. They also tend to lack the focused keyboard-driven workflow that makes mind map creation efficient.
4. Mindmaps Pro for Confluence - purpose-built maps for Confluence
Mindmaps Pro for Confluence is designed specifically to create mind maps, org charts, content trees, and other visual hierarchies directly in your Confluence pages. Unlike the page tree macro or content tree macros, it is not limited to reflecting existing page structure - you can build any hierarchy you need from scratch or start with a mind map template.
The key advantage is speed. You can create mind maps in seconds using the keyboard-driven workflow: press + to add a node, type a description, press Enter to continue to the next item. Restructuring is done with drag-and-drop. This makes it significantly faster to build an organizational chart or content tree compared to general diagramming tools where you must manually place and connect shapes.
Mindmaps Pro also offers styling capabilities that the built-in macros lack. Add colors to emphasize important nodes, use symbols and emojis for visual clarity, and export or print the result for sharing. The tree macro displays a static page hierarchy - Mindmaps Pro lets you create, style, and interactively edit rich visual hierarchies that live directly in your Confluence pages, making it ideal for brainstorming sessions, project breakdowns, organizational charts, and documentation planning.
Product details
Mindmaps Pro for Confluence is an add-on application that extends the capabilities of your Atlassian Confluence. It can be installed directly through the Atlassian Marketplace listing for Mindmaps Pro for Confluence.
Confluence features
- Create mind maps directly in your Confluence pages - with the ability to create multiple new nodes easily in sequence
- Edit existing nodes inline
- Enhance nodes with colors, key highlights and symbols/emojis
- Remove nodes (recursively)
- Use as a mind map overview, organizational chart, content tree, or any tree hierarchy
- Data securely stored within your Atlassian cloud instance
- Export mind map to PDF or print for sharing outside Confluence
- Dark theme support
Tree hierarchy features
- Fast 2D tree engine enabling your Confluence mind map to be rendered in a horizontal mind map layout
- Scrolling/Zooming - using mouse, keyboard, touchpad and touch
- Scaling - automatically scale to width option to best fit the mind map to your document page width
Security
Qualified "Runs on Atlassian" meeting Atlassian's most stringent security and data privacy requirements. Mindmaps Pro for Confluence has been developed following industry best-practices on cloud security. As Mindmaps Pro for Confluence is built with the Atlassian Forge platform, it also means that it is hosted directly by Atlassian and operates within the security context of your existing Confluence cloud instance and related Atlassian services.
Data privacy
Qualified "Runs on Atlassian" meeting Atlassian's most stringent security and data privacy requirements. Under no instances or circumstances, is any data stored by Mindmaps Pro for Confluence (be it corporate, project or personal data) outside of the Confluence cloud instance or your browser. Mindmaps Pro for Confluence works by directly operating from within your Atlassian authenticated browser session communicating directly with Confluence.
Performance
Mindmaps Pro for Confluence comes with high performing and robust tree rendering compatible with all common and modern browsers on the market today. Under the hood you find Emergence Software's proprietary tree engine technology - it has been built especially with fast rendering speed, large tree sizes, and an intuitive and seamless user experience in mind. Whether your maps for Confluence contain a handful of nodes or hundreds, the rendering stays fast and responsive across all your Confluence pages.
Browser support
- Chrome
- Edge
- Firefox
- Safari
Quick guide
The Quick Guide contains a more comprehensive description of the features and functionality of Mindmaps Pro for Confluence.