Why is Confluence so bland to look and work with?

Katheryng.salgado

I started a massive project through Microsoft Notebook but now having to move to Confluence. It's difficult to learn but I'm figuring it out. Only current issue is, why is it so boring and not creative to write with? There's no editing of font, color and only had maybe 6 standard sizes. 

 

Making a page forces everything in the middle as a notebook "page" and makes it difficult to add additional outside of a paragraph. Pages are the only means of adding "labels" to create searchable keywords. I made a white board and it's more creative but as the name implies, anyone cane write on it and adjust, I tried to create it as a draft and then publish but it's none existent. 

 

I'm having to copy and paste my already editted data from Notebook over to Confluence. It's a headache adding words inside shapes inside white board as it doesn't appear smooth. 

 

Am I missing something? Can I get some tips/tricks? I really need to make the content pop instead of boring paragraphs. 

 

thanks!

Patricia Modispacher _k15t_

Hi @Katheryng.salgado,

thanks for your question!

You're not really missing anything. Confluence does not have so many built-in options to beautify content. But it does have the possibility to add some style with third party macros.

I, for one, would like to recommend Aura Content Formatting Macros. 

With this macro suite, you can add stuff like

 

 

Dynamic Cards

 

 

Countdown timers

 

 

 

Child tabs

 

 

 

 

An enhanced expand group

 

 

And my fave: interactive cards

 

 

And much more, tbh! Just browse through the documentation to find more macros. 

You might also want to read this text about highlighting text in Confluence.

Let me know if you have any questions!