Duplicate Detection
Two pages on one topic are how a wiki rots: both are half kept up, and nobody knows which one to trust. Pulse looks for pages on the same topic at three moments.
While you write a new page
Section titled “While you write a new page”When you give a new page a title, Pulse looks for pages whose titles match closely, and the line in the editor tells you how many pages may already cover this. You can open them and update the page that exists instead of starting a second one. Pulse warns; it never stops you from publishing.
On the Advanced edition, when no title matches and the new page is still short, Pulse asks its similar meaning check once: an AI check that recognises the same topic under other words, such as Onboarding and Your first week. Every page it suggests is checked with Confluence as you before you see it, so it never names a page you cannot open.
In Page vitals
Section titled “In Page vitals”About this page in Page vitals lists pages with a similar title. On Advanced it also lists pages the similar meaning check found.
In Clean up
Section titled “In Clean up”Clean up gathers pages that cover one topic into groups, so someone can decide which page readers should use:
| How Pulse found them | Edition |
|---|---|
| Exact copy: someone made one page from the other with Confluence’s Copy | Every edition |
| Title match: the titles match closely | Every edition |
| Marked by a person: someone in your team marked the pages as one topic | Every edition |
| Likely same topic: the similar meaning check found them, with its short reason | Advanced |
Title matches are found again after each weekly check of your site. A group is shown to a person only when at least two of its pages open for that person, and only those are named.
About the similar meaning check
Section titled “About the similar meaning check”- It runs only on the Advanced edition, checked on Pulse’s server. The Standard edition sends nothing to a model.
- It uses Atlassian’s Forge LLMs, models hosted by Atlassian inside its platform. Pulse sends nothing to a third party AI provider.
- It sends titles, never page text: while you write, the title of your draft and up to 150 titles of pages you can open; for Clean up, lists of titles from Pulse’s page index.
- It has daily limits: 25 checks a person and 200 a site while writing, and 100 for the background work of Clean up. Over a limit, Pulse simply does not ask.
- Pulse keeps the short reason the check gives for a pair, never a percentage, and never sends that reason to a log or to analytics.
See the privacy policy for what is kept and for how long.