Create a new Mind map (EasyMind 3.6.x & 1.0.34-AC)

Owned by Raman Paulau
12. 12. 2023
2 min read

Creating mind maps in Confluence helps you with planning and organizing your work on a daily basis 

 

There are two ways to create your mind map in Confluence, get to know both, and decide which one suits you the best.

Creating mind maps from a template

  1. Go to a given Confluence page 

  2. Click Templates button

  3. Choose EasyMind map and click Use 

  4. Click Create and EasyMind editor will show up

 

 

Creating mind maps by inserting EasyMind macro

There are couple of options when inserting a new EasyMind macro into your Confluence page. Please follow these steps and find out more about the options below

  1. Go to a given Confluence page

  2. Click Edit 

  3. Press the "+" icon at the top of the page

  4. Choose EasyMind (you can also find it under Other macros)

  5. Following window is displayed with these options:

New Document

 

By clicking New, an EasyMind editor will be displayed and you can start with your new mind map

Import

 

This section is related to mind map import into EasyMind, more details on how it works can be found here

  1. Click Import

  2. Choose file

  3. Choose from the list of File format from the following options:

    1. EasyMind

    2. FreeMind

    3. FreePlane

    4. XMind

  4. Click Upload

  5. You see your mind map name displayed in the window

  6. Click on it and the mind map will be displayed in EasyMind editor

Copy from other pages 

 

This section allows you to attach a mind map created on a different Confluence page.

  1. Click Copy

  2. Enter Attachment name (mind map name you wish to insert into your page)

  3. Choose Space to search at 

  4. Click Submit

  5. You see your mind map name displayed in the window

  6. Click on it and the mind map will be displayed in EasyMind editor

 

* For proper save and display of special characters, the application server URI encoding must be set to UTF-8 encoding.