Using Atlassian AI to build Confluence articles from email

Question

We all know how hard it is to start an article from nothing. I have an idea, but I'm not sure how to get it off the ground.

I want Confluence AI to send me an email on Monday morning, asking what's the big thing that I'm going to work on that week. I reply back with what I'm doing, let's say pay the power bill. Confluence will send me a response saying, what are the steps you take to do that, I send back the steps, and it creates a page in a certain space.

Fast forward to the next month: I tell it I'm going to pay the power bill and it responds with the article on what I told it last month. I can review and modify, then send it back and the AI will update the article.

This might be better to have a link in the first email that opens a chat bot to the AI instead of emailing back and forth.

I have seen the app mailto:wiki app that you can get but I wasn't sure if that's what I needed or if it would work with the AI to do what I wanted.

Any tips would be helpful.

Thanks!

Tomislav Tobijas · Answer

Quite a creative idea @Bradley Allen 💡

Here are a couple of tips on this:

* You could use Confluence automation combined with AI/Rovo to send you some kind of recap, email or something
* Note that you cannot go 'back-and-forth' with Confluence via email; meaning that's not supported yet > see feature request CONFCLOUD-79455: Enable "Email into Confluence" for Confluence Cloud 
* Automation can create a new page but not update existing ones > another suggestion here: CONFCLOUD-76510: Update page content with Automation for Confluence

You can use automation to send a scheduled email or Slack message with a link to a Confluence template or form, prompting you to fill in your weekly focus. Once submitted, automation can create a page in the right space.

Some helpful links:

* Confluence automation 
* AI features in Confluence

That learning path you've mentioned is a really nice starting point and it should explain AI capabilities and even spark some ideas on how you can use AI and Confluence together. 📚

Cheers,
Tobi

Bradley Allen · Answer

I'm currently looking through this https://community.atlassian.com/learning/path/get-the-most-out-of-rovo and go through the training for Rovo to see what it can do.