Direct answer: Connect Edithly to your Jira workspace. Select any project, epic, or ticket. Generate a mind map, summary, or visual brief from the content — in under 60 seconds, without leaving your workflow.
The Problem with Text-Heavy Jira Tickets
Jira is where product decisions live. But it's also where they go to be buried — in long descriptions, nested acceptance criteria, thread comments, and attachment chains that nobody has time to fully read.
A new developer joins a sprint. They have 48 hours to understand 6 epics and 40 tickets. Nobody has time to walk them through each one. The Jira content is all there — but it's not in a format that supports rapid comprehension.
Edithly converts that content into formats that do.
Setting Up the Integration
- Go to Integrations in your Edithly account
- Select Jira and click Connect
- Authenticate via OAuth — Edithly requests read-only access
- Select the Jira workspace and projects you want to access
- Your Jira projects are now available in Edithly
What You Can Do with Jira + Edithly
Generate a Mind Map from an Epic
Select a Jira epic. Edithly reads the epic description, all linked stories, and their acceptance criteria. It generates a mind map showing the feature scope — central epic at the core, stories as branches, acceptance criteria as sub-branches.
New team members understand the feature at a glance. Stakeholders get a visual without reading 20 tickets.
Create a Sprint Brief
Before sprint planning, pull all tickets from the upcoming sprint into Edithly. Generate a summary — a plain-language brief of what the team is building, why, and what done looks like. Share via link in Slack or Confluence.
Chat with a Ticket
For complex engineering tickets with long descriptions and multiple comment threads, open the ticket in Edithly and ask questions: "What are the acceptance criteria for this feature?" or "What were the key decisions made in the comments?" Get precise answers without reading every comment.
Build a Project Overview
Create an Edithly repository from a Jira project. Import key epics. Generate a project mind map showing the roadmap structure. Share with stakeholders as a visual project brief.
Use Cases by Role
Product Managers
Generate visual feature briefs for stakeholder updates. Convert a complex product specification into a one-page visual summary. Use Edithly's presentation feature to build sprint review slide decks directly from Jira epics.
Engineering Leads
Create onboarding materials for new developers by generating mind maps of the codebase's feature areas from Jira epics. New hires understand system context in hours, not weeks.
Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches
Build sprint planning visuals. Generate dependency maps from linked tickets. Create retrospective summaries from sprint outcomes recorded in Jira.
Developers
Before starting a complex ticket, use Edithly to summarise it — understand the full context, including related acceptance criteria and comment discussions, in 60 seconds rather than 20 minutes.
Jira + Edithly Workflow for Sprint Review
Here's a practical sprint review preparation workflow:
- Sprint ends. 12 stories completed.
- Open Edithly. Select the Jira project.
- Import all completed stories from the sprint.
- Generate a Presentation — Edithly organises the stories into slides by epic.
- Each slide shows: story title, outcome, acceptance criteria met.
- Add your own commentary to key slides.
- Share the presentation link with stakeholders before the review.
- Sprint review is now a 30-minute conversation, not a 90-minute Jira walkthrough.
Total preparation time: Under 10 minutes.
Security and Data Handling
- Read-only OAuth access — Edithly never writes to your Jira data
- On-demand fetching — Jira content is fetched when you request it, not continuously synced
- User-scoped access — each Edithly user connects their own Jira account; project visibility follows Jira permissions
Connect Jira to Edithly
Available on Pro and above. Set up the integration in under 2 minutes — no IT involvement required.
