Diagrams · Excalidraw macro
Early thinking that reads as early thinking - and stays editable
With the Excalidraw macro your whiteboard sketch keeps the hand-drawn character that
invites comment. The .excalidraw file renders on the page, so a wireframe
still says "this is not final yet" - and the file stays yours to keep drawing.
Your readers see the drawing exactly as you drew it
Every colour, style and element comes through, drawn as crisp vector graphics rather than a flattened screenshot - so the wireframe you sketched on a call is the wireframe on the page, readable at any zoom and on any screen.
The sketch sits on your page, not in a white box on it
Turn the background transparent and the drawing becomes part of the page. Leave the theme on automatic and it follows each reader's light or dark Confluence - or pin it to one, when the drawing was made for a particular background.
You get feedback instead of shutting it down - and updates reach every page
UI prototypes, architecture sketches, a flow drawn during a workshop: the visual language invites comment rather than deference. And because the file renders instead of being pasted as an image, updating the drawing updates every page pointing at it.
Nothing your team draws gets trapped in the wiki
Keep the file wherever your team already does - a page attachment, a URL, Google Drive, or a credentialed S3, SFTP or database connection an admin set up once - and readers download the original from the macro to carry on drawing in Excalidraw. Fix the height when a sketch is tall, or let the macro fit it for you.
What the whiteboard apps leave you without
The other way to get Excalidraw into Confluence is a whiteboard app: a canvas inside the wiki, where new drawings are made and kept. It is a good answer if nothing exists yet. It leaves you stranded when your team already sketches in Excalidraw and the files live in a repo, Google Drive, an S3 bucket or behind SFTP - places no whiteboard app reads. This macro takes those files as they are, keeps the hand-drawn character, and lets anyone download the original to keep drawing where they always have.
Excalidraw is one of 31 macros in Macro Pack
One app to install, one licence to renew, one place your team learns - and 30 more formats it already reads, from spreadsheets and diagrams to API specs and documents.
See every macro in the pack