Hello community! I discovered SilverBullet yesterday from a reference in the Foam Discord server. I’ve watched all of Zef’s videos … twice - that’s how much I’m falling for this product. I spent quite a bit of time in the playground and finally this morning bit the bullet (no pun intended) and loaded SB on my Mac (via Deno) following the install steps.
I then created a new directory in my Documents folder called sb
and then ran silverbullet . -p8080
(since I use port 3000 for React development). I can then access the app at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ as expected. Then I clicked the button to install the packages (32 of them). So, it seems like everything should be there, but …
In Zef’s videos and in the playground, there is an option to create a daily note. But I have no daily note option in my SB install. Pulling up the commands via ⌘/
and then typing ‘daily’ or ‘journal’ returns nothing. Is there a special package for the journal that I’m missing?
The 2nd issue I’m having is that I’m trying to resize a screen-capture that I pasted into a note. I’ve tried all forms of syntax including ![image|100](attachments/2024-06-22_14-41-01.png)
but no matter what I try, the image takes up the full width, which, for this particular image, is not what I want.
And the final issue I’m having is more of a philosophical one, and that’s to do with tags. In Zef’s video, he creates a page called “Harry Potter” and then he adds some frontmatter to include tags for which he adds “book” and then a property (or attribute) for author. And what confuses me is this: suppose I wanted that Harry Potter page to represent both a book AND a movie? So on the tags line I’d add “book, movie” - but for the properties … then what? If I add a ‘director’ property, for instance, then it just “feels” off in that director is only an attribute of movie, not book. It seems like each tag should have its own set of properties, not a combined mix. But perhaps I’m totally misunderstanding, hence my outreach for guidance.
Oh … so sorry, two other minor questions if I haven’t already overdone it here are this:
(1) when I select a word and type [
the closing bracket automatically is added to the end - which is awesome. Ditto for (
. But it’s not the case for ‘
or “
and I’m curious why that is.
(2) how can I use an escape character? I’d like ---
to sometimes NOT result in displaying a full hr, but typing \---
displays the backslash, which I do not want.
Anyway, thank you for creating this amazing product. I’m eagerly looking forward to continuing my journey here.
Thank you so much!
Warmly,
Grace