You can 'watch' a Confluence page, blog post or space. Confluence will then send you a notification email whenever anyone updates your watched content.
You'll receive email notifications for:
- Edits (unless the author clears the 'Notify watchers' check box).
- Deletions.
- Attachments, including new versions or deletions of an existing attachment.
- Comments, including new comments, edits of existing comments or deletions of existing comments.
By default, Confluence will assign you as a watcher of any page or blog post that you create or edit.
There's no daily digest for email notifications. You'll receive immediate emails for important notifications (like mentions and new pages), but when lots of changes are being made at the same time, you'll only receive a single email with all the changes (within a 10 minute window).
You will not receive email notifications for content changes due to the output of a macro, because the page content itself hasn't been edited.
Watching a page
To start watching a page or blog post:
- Go to the page
- Choose Watch and select the relevant check box.
To stop watching the page, deselect the relevant check box.
Watching an entire space
You can choose to watch all the pages in a particular space.
The quickest way is to use the Watch option on a page.
To stop watching the space, deselect the relevant check box.
Manage watches from your user profile
The 'Watches' page in your user profile displays a list of all pages and spaces you are currently watching.
To manage your watches:
- Choose your profile picture at top right of the screen, then choose Watches.
- Choose Stop Watching for any unwanted spaces or pages.
Manage watches from the email message
The email notifications that you receive from Confluence have some useful links at the bottom of the email message.
- Stop watching page – Click this link to stop watching the page that triggered the email notification.
- Stop watching space – Click this link to stop watching the space that triggered the email notification.
- Stop following this user – Click this link to stop following the user whose update triggered the email notification.
- Manage Notifications – Click this link to go to the email settings page in your user profile.
Comments are ways to bring others into the conversation about a page or blog post. They allow you to remark on content, add important information, ask questions, and generally drive collaboration and teamwork.
You can add a comment at the bottom of any page or blog post, or add an inline comment by highlighting specific text on the page.
Add a page comment
- Type your comment in the comment field at the bottom of the page
- Optionally, choose Preview to see how your comment will appear
- By default, Watch this page is ticked
- Choose Save
Other users can reply and/or like your comment, and you or a space administrator can edit your comment(s).
Add an inline comment
- Highlight the text you want to comment on
- Choose the add comment
button that appears above the highlighted text - Type your comment and choose Save
The selected text will appear with a yellow highlight indicating an inline comment; choose any highlighted text on the page to display the related comment(s).
Just like page comments, others can reply to, or like, your inline comments, and you'll be notified when they do.
Resolve inline comments
Hit Resolve to hide a set of inline comments once the conversation's finished. If you want to view resolved comments, choose 
> Resolved comments; to reopen a resolved comment, choose Reopen at the bottom left.
Comment permissions
- Add a comment – You need the 'Add Comments' permission in the space.
- Edit a comment – You need the 'Add Comments' permission. Space administrators can edit all comments within their space. The date on a comment always indicates the time the comment was last edited.
- Delete a comment – You need the 'Remove Comments' permission. Deleted comments cannot be restored. If you don't have the 'Remove Comments' permission, you can delete your own comments, but only if there are no replies to your comment.
- Disable comments – If you don't want comments in a particular space, remove the 'Add Comments' permission from the 'confluence-users' or 'users' group, anonymous users and all other users and groups. The option to add comments will no longer appear on pages or blog posts in that space.
Mentions (often known as @mentions) are a seamless way of drawing someone's attention to a page or comment, or assigning a task to them. When you mention a user, they'll receive a notification by email and in their workbox; if you mention them in a task, the task is assigned to them and appears in their tasks list.
- To mention someone using autocomplete, type '@' in the editor then start typing their name. Choose the person you want to mention from the list of suggestions.
You can use the 'Share' option in Confluence to email anyone a link to a page or blog post. The recipients can be Confluence users or any email address(es).
To share a link to a Confluence page or blog post:
- Go to the page or blog post you wish to share
Choose Share
- Enter a username, group or email address, and select the appropriate user, group or email address from the list of suggestions
Repeat this process to add multiple recipients to the list. - Enter an optional message into the Note box
- Choose Share to send the link via email
- The workbox
displays all notifications collected from page watches, shares, mentions, and tasks. From your workbox you can reply to comments, like a comment or page, watch a page, or open the relevant page or blog post.
- Choose the workbox icon
in the header.
- A number will appear the workbox icon, to indicate the number of unread notifications waiting for your attention.
- Choose a notification from the list, to see the notification details. You can then:
- Open the related page, blog post, or comment.
- Like or Unlike the page, blog post, or comment.
- Watch or Stop Watching to receive notifications, or stop receiving notifications, about a page or blog post.
- Reply a comment, without leaving the workbox.
The workbox displays all notifications collected from the wiki page watches, shares, mentions, and tasks.
You can view your notifications and convert them to personal tasks. Use the inline actions to reply to comments, like a comment or page, or watch a page. Follow the links in a notification to open the relevant page or blog post.
Notification features include:
- notification box always accessible
- notification context visualization
- convert a notification to a task
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