Getting started with Copy as Markdown

1. Open any Confluence page.

2. Under the page title — click Copy as Markdown.
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That's it. The page is on your clipboard. Paste it into Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor,

a text editor, or anywhere else that takes text.
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The page body, converted to Markdown: headings, lists, tables, code blocks,

links, quotes, panels and expand sections. Task lists become Markdown

checkboxes, and emoji become ordinary Unicode characters.

Above the content sits a short metadata block:
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That `url` line is the one that matters. Given the link, an assistant can cite

the page it actually read instead of paraphrasing it from memory — which is the

difference between an answer you can check and one you cannot.
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Two tick-boxes sit above the button:
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- Metadata — the block above. On by default.

- Comments — includes footer and inline comments, where decisions often

live. Off by default.
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Both are remembered in your browser, so set them once.
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A single page is often not the answer. To take more:

- From a page, click Advanced… in the popup.

- From anywhere in a space, open Copy as Markdown under Space apps in

the sidebar. Use this one for folders — the byline button only exists on

pages, so a folder's contents are otherwise out of reach.

Either opens a tree. Tick a page and its children come with it; tick any mix of

pages, branches and folders. Then:
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- Copy as Markdown puts the whole selection on your clipboard as one

document. Each page keeps its own metadata block, so an assistant reading the

result still knows which page each section came from.

- Download .zip gives you one Markdown file per page instead, for when you

do want files.

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You do not always know which pages you need. Ask instead.

Open Rovo chat and ask the Copy as Markdown agent for a topic — "everything

we have on the incident review process". It searches the space, reads what it

finds, decides which pages are actually relevant, and pre-selects them in the

tree with a one-line explanation of its choice.
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You review the selection and copy it. The agent proposes; you confirm. It cannot

copy or export anything itself.
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If the Copy as Markdown view isn't already open, the agent's reply includes a

link to open it with the selection waiting.

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The conversion happens in your own browser. The app sends your page content to

no external service and uses no AI processing outside your Atlassian tenant.
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It holds read-only permissions — it cannot create, edit or delete anything in

Confluence, and never asks for permission to. It qualifies for Atlassian's

Runs on Atlassian programme.
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When you include comments, their authors are replaced with per-copy pseudonyms.

The app never emits an account identifier, and deliberately does not take the

permission that would let it resolve one to a name.

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- Some formatting cannot survive the trip. Layouts and columns flatten to a

single column, images and attachments are referenced by name rather than

embedded, and text colour and highlighting are dropped. Everything else

converts.

- A clipboard copy takes up to 50 pages. That is a deliberate ceiling — past

roughly that point, more context makes an assistant's answers worse, not

better. A `.zip` download has no limit.

- You only see pages you already have access to. The app reads Confluence as

you, so page restrictions apply exactly as they do in the browser.