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Silver Bullet
Markdown as a platform
Silver Bullet (SB) is a highly extensible, open source personal knowledge playground. At its core it’s a Markdown-based writing/note taking application that stores pages (notes) as plain markdown files in a folder referred to as a space. Pages can be cross-linked using the [[link to other page]] syntax. This makes it a simple tool for Personal Knowledge Management. However, once you leverage its various extensions (called plugs) it can feel more like a knowledge playground, allowing you to annotate, combine and query your accumulated knowledge in creative ways, specific to you.
What does Silver Bullet look like? Well, have a look around. You’re looking at it at this very moment! Feel free to make some edits, to get a feel for it. Don’t worry, you won’t break anything, nothing is saved (just reload the page to see).
Explore more
Click on the links below to explore various of Silver Bullet more in-depth:
🤯 Features 💡 Inspiration 🔌 Plugs 🔨 Development 🗺 Roadmap
More of a video person? Here’s two to get you started:
- A Tour of Silver Bullet’s features — spoiler alert: it’s cool.
- A look the SilverBullet architecture — spoiler alert: it’s plugs all the way down.
Installing and running Silver Bullet
Like what you’re seeing? Install it yourself locally or on your server! It’s free.
To run a release version, you need to have a recent version of node.js installed (16+) as well as some basic build infrastructure (make, cpp). Silver Bullet has only been tested on MacOS and Linux thus far.
To install and run, create a folder for your pages (can be empty or an existing folder with .md files) and run:
npx @silverbullet/server <path-to-folder>
Optionally you can use the --port argument to specify a HTTP port (defaults to 3000) and you can pass a --password flag to require a password to access. Note this is a rather weak security mechanism, so it’s recommended to add additional layers of security on top of this if you run this on a public server somewhere (at least add TLS). Personally I run it on a tiny Linux VM on my server at home, and use a VPN (Tailscale) to access it from outside my home.