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Data & Analytics
Welcome PocketQuery for Confluence 4.0.0
We are happy to announce PocketQuery for Confluence 4.0! A lot has changed since our very first Marketplace app was published in March 2013 and we are stoked about ~1300 Confluence installations using our data integration tool! The improvements with this new major release are primarily targeting the set of users that use our tool on a very regular basis: PocketQuery editors and administrators. Despite this primary focus on administration, regular PocketQuery macro users will see major improvements of our app just alike. Let’s dive into the changes…

Content & Communication
Welcome HideElements 3.1.0 - Space tools access with hidden sidebar
We are happy to announce HideElements for Confluence 3.1.0! This release was born out of feedback from space administrators who wanted to hide their sidebar, but still need access to the Space Tools Menu. We added a new configuration page t

Content & Communication
Now that's something I like - Welcome Lively Blogs 3.10.0
Don’t forget about your teaser images anymore and like your blog posts directly from the Confluence dashboard!

Data & Analytics
PocketQuery best practice: How to securely build reports with data from REST APIs
Our tool PocketQuery is a great and simple way to get live data from external systems into your Confluence pages. Once you have properly set up a Datasource, it’s easy to start writing Queries and inserting them into your pages left and rig

Content & Communication
Lively Apps' Lively Recorder is the Second Place Winner at Codegeist 2020
We’re stoked to announce that our Codegeist 2020 submission “Lively Recorder for Confluence”received second place in the “Built with Connect” category. Big shout out to our developer team that worked hard to make this happen and congratulat

Company News
Diary for Confluence is Now Free
A tool for effective remote communication. Team awareness and healthy communication are essential to us here at Lively Apps. As a fully remote team split across Munich and Vancouver, we face the daily challenge of communicating across coun

Content & Communication
Task Reminder 2.1.0—Per User Opt-Out, Task Creators, And More
Task Reminder for Confluence 2.1.0 is here! For navigating the opt outs, metrics and schedules in the future, here is a peek at Task Reminder for Confluence 2.1.0.

New Release
Git Snippets 2.6.0—Use Access Tokens with Bitbucket Server
We are happy to announce the new minor release 2.6.0 of Git Snippets for Confluence. After adding a Markdown Renderer to Git Snippets last month, we now added the option to use an Access Token on Bitbucket Server instances. We also improved

Content & Communication
Welcome Lively Blogs 3.9.0 - Blog Overviews on Confluence pages!
We are happy to announce a new minor release 3.9.0 of Lively Blogs for Confluence. With this new version, you can now embed the global Blog overview into any Confluence page!

New Release
Git Snippets for Confluence—Developer Documentation without Duplication
Let’s start this post with a bold claim: as software developers we like Confluence. Well, we think at least many of us do. And many of us use it as a tool to create documentation for software. In fact, we have had many projects where we sta