At A Glance : Rovo in Confluence
You’ve likely heard about Rovo - Atlassian AI assistant - and maybe you’ve even used it! Regardless, it can be very easy to either miss features, or just not know they exist. So below is a quick “at-a-glance” guide to what Rovo can help you do inside Confluence. This is not intended to be a comprehensive guide - just a starting point to help build awareness.
As a general reminder keep in mind that any AI tool can make mistakes, provide wrong info, etc. These tools are intended to augment/extend what we humans can do - but we are always responsible for what we do with them. So, take time to double check and critically examine what you get before you act!
Search
Personally I think Search is the single best feature of Rovo as “I can’t find something” is the most common complaint I hear about Confluence. Rovo expands our ability to search by accepting “natural language” queries - we don’t have to learn anything special, we just type in what we want to find.
Definitions
My personal favorite feature, Definitions, will attempt to define a term based on information available to Rovo. This is especially useful for terms unique to your team or organization as Rovo will have full context behind them. Just select some text on a page, click “define” and let Rovo do all the hard work.
Even better, Rovo will cite sources so you can double-check it’s work!
You can also edit definitions at the page, space and instance levels so if something needs to be changed, you can do that as well (note that you cannot restrict who can do this!).
Summaries (Text, Audio & Changes)
Rovo can be used to summarize a page, read the summary out loud and summarize changes since you last visited one. This is incredibly useful as it lets you quickly get up to speed, or determine if actually reading the whole thing is needed.
The audio summary is also useful for when you’re on-the-go, or if you’re a more auditory learner.
Getting a summary of changes since you last visited has saved me a LOT of time trying to dig through version histories.
Content Generation
Rovo can be used to generate multiple types of content, including (but likely not limited to)
- Text on a page - prompt it like you would any other AI and Rovo can help draft text.
- Stickies on a whiteboard - select some stickies as a starting point and Rovo can create more that are related to it.
Grouping Ideas
Rovo can be used to group similar ideas on a whiteboard. Select any number of sticky notes and Rovo will put them into sections by group. I find this very useful as a brainstorming session as I’ll end up with a bit of a visual mess.
Other Resources
Was this helpful?
Thanks!
Robert Hean
1 comment