How do I create a simple list of links to pages in my space?

[Kevin Aegis]

I have a space where I record notes (The "Notes" Space).

There are a lot of individual Notes pages that are children in the space. However, the main page in the space is just empty, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get to a list of links to all the various notes I've created. 

When I searched online, the advice was to use the "page hierarchy" function in the menu that comes up when you click on the three dots, however.... I'm not seeing that, and searching "help" for "hierarchy" in confluence returns nothing useful. 

Right now the only way I'm able to access these various subpages is through the "recent changes" menu, and then I'm copy-pasting links into the top level page. This is incredibly tedious, and I'm sure I'm missing links that are not appearing in the list. 

There must be a simple way to just create a page full of links of children in a space. 

[Andy Gladstone · Accepted solution]

@Kevin Aegis welcome to the Atlassian Community.

On the parent page insert the page tree macro and it will render a list of links to all of the child pages (the notes). 

Put the page in edit mode and either select the page tree macro from the (+) sign on the menu bar or type /page tree in the body of the page. 

I hope this helps!

[Kevin Aegis]

Thank you, that solved it for me. I would never have figured that out on my own. 

[Brant Schroeder · Accepted solution]

@Kevin Aegis Welcome to the Atlassian community

You can use any of the navigation macros to accomplish this.  I would suggest using the page tree macro.  As you add additional notes they will automatically be added to the page.  You can learn more about the macro, how to add it and configure it here: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-page-tree-macro/ 

[Kevin Aegis]

Thank you for this. The link to the support page for the macro was really helpful here - definitely not straightforward!

[Kevin Aegis]

oops

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

The page tree is quite handy, but I still prefer a landing page with loads of navigation on it!  Brant and Andy have got you there :-)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

What do you have in the left-hand column?  Is there no "pages" entry near the bottom?

(This would not solve "blank main page" by the way, but the pages entry is a page tree.  I tend to use the main page for other ways of organising links for people to explore - label, contributor and recently updated for example)