Basic · Inline text source
Type it in mid-sentence and it is on the page
With the Inline text source the sequence diagram you are drafting mid-sentence, a sample payload, a formula or a few rows of data go straight into the macro and onto the page. You get the fastest source there is - twenty-two of the thirty-one macros accept it - with nothing to connect, upload or administer.
You need no connection, no upload and no admin
Write Mermaid, PlantUML, Ditaa, Svgbob, Nomnoml or WaveDrom into the macro and the diagram is on the page - and because the source is text, the next person to spot a mistake fixes it themselves instead of asking whoever owns the drawing file.
Your example stays exactly what you wrote
A sample response in a tutorial should not change when the API does; an illustrative table in a proposal is an example, not a feed. Content written to make a point belongs in the page, and it will still be exactly what you wrote in two years. When the content is the real artefact rather than an example, one of the other twelve sources fetches it instead - the same macro, a different source.
Your content travels with the page
Inline text is part of the page, so it is copied, versioned and permission-checked like the rest of it. Nothing to keep reachable, nothing to break when a bucket is renamed or a token expires.
What the other apps leave you with when the file keeps changing
For a third of the ninety competing Confluence apps in our comparison, pasting text into the macro is not the quick option - it is the only source their listings describe. Both JSON viewers, the most installed Mermaid viewer and every LaTeX and PlantUML app on the list are in that group, which is fine until the thing you are documenting is a real file that keeps changing. Here typing it in is the first of thirteen ways in, not the only one.
Inline text is one of 13 places Macro Pack reads from
One app, one licence, one connection your admin sets up - and 12 more places a page can pull content from, whether that is a page attachment, a Git repository, an S3 bucket or your database.
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