Now live: Summarize changes on a Confluence page with AI

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Do you wish that AI could help you get more productive in your day to day work? Look no further. We are pleased to share that we recently made “summarize changes” feature publicly available. This feature helps you get a quick summary of what has changed on a page since your last visit.

This not only saves time and effort but also provides a quick way to stay up-to date on all the pages that you care about and collaborate on a daily basis.

How to access it

• You must have access to AI features in Confluence, available in Premium/Enterprise editions.

• Visit any Confluence page that might have changed since your last visit.

• Click “summarize changes” from the AI action dropdown and see the summary of changes at your finger tips.

We’d love to hear from you!

We can't wait to hear your feedback! Feel free to share your thoughts and feedback on this post or via the thumbs up/down when you use the feature. Your input is invaluable to us as we strive to enhance your experience with AI in Confluence.

Questions?

For more questions or if you have ideas to improve this feature or ideas for other AI magic you like to see in Confluence, comment below or feel free to email me at sjindal4@atlassian.com!

Cheers, 

-Shweta 

[Stephen_Lugton]

Thanks for the article @Shweta Jindal this looks like it will be a very useful feature especially where we have multiple editors updating pages

[John Dunkelberg]

Thanks folks, I've been interested to use it since it became available to us.  While I know that most AIs need to be engaged as a conversation, the first step of summarization provides that first increment of value, but Atlassian AI doesn't allow the conversation to get that depth.  I think that value needs to be higher than it currently is.  Right now when I summarize meeting notes I often get something like "The team discussed Issue A, Issue B, and Issue C."  That's too shallow a first pass, and since unlike Copilot or ChatGPT, there is no ability to interrogate the AI to go any deeper.  Our staff also have access to Copilot and ChatGPT, and are more likely to find value copy-pasting their confluence page into those tools right now.  Hopefully the Atlassian Intelligence team is benchmarking themselves against those tools.

[Adam_Rowe_TTD]

While the feature aims to inform users about page modifications, its effectiveness is limited by manual activation. Specifically, if a user visits a page after a change has occurred but doesn't immediately run the summary tool, they could miss critical updates.

For example, imagine a scenario where a document was updated on December 1st, the user visits the page on the 2nd, but doesn't run the summary tool until a later visit on December 5th. When they finally use the tool, it will only show changes from December 2nd onwards (their last visit), effectively hiding the earlier, potentially more significant modifications. This approach creates a blind spot in document tracking.

To truly enhance user experience, the tool should either:

1. Automatically notify users of changes since their last visit, or
2. Provide a comprehensive summary of all modifications within a specified time frame (or the last x updates to the doc), regardless of when the tool is run.

This would ensure that users never miss important updates, even if they don't immediately check the summary feature after a page has been modified.