# Document Explorer for Silverbullet

**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647
**Category:** Plugs and Libraries
**Created:** [December 14, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647 "2025-12-14T16:07:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/21 "2025-12-16T12:46:25Z")

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Have you tried in another browser?

I tested following with results:

- 🟢 Chrome: tested(Mac&Win) & working
- 🟢 Edge: tested(Win) & working
- 🟢 Brave: tested(Mac) & working
- 🟢 Firefox: tested(Mac) & working (animations doesn`t work)
- 🟡 Safari: tested & partially working (opening documents doesn’t work)

I didn’t and can’t test Brave+Win, therefor i cannot replicate your issue, so i’m assuming it might be a browser incompatibiilty?

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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/22 "2025-12-16T13:02:07Z")

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are you on latest edge build (`2.3.0-0-g21ddcb4`) ?

i found this similar issue:

> [@\[SPACE-LUA\] Addon with missing Git commands (history, diff, restore)](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/space-lua-addon-with-missing-git-commands-history-diff-restore/3539/14):
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> I found the problem. not your plugin’s problem, but SilverBullet’s problem: virtual pages whose name contains / cannot be properly parsed on windows machine: like the virtual page tag:meta/api from the tag #meta/api below time to raise a github issue -\_-|| [UPDATE] ON SilverBullet 2.3.0-0-g21ddcb4, problem related to virtual pages containing / has been fixed, which means pages that contains folder structure is now able to be git: historyed. however, git: history acts on pages that…

does your folder name contains special characters like for example `/` or some other characters ?  
reportedly virtual pages might not parse them properly. could you please send me a screenshot of your folder names which doesnt work so i can try to track down the issue?

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### Author: ![marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/23 "2025-12-16T13:12:57Z")

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You are currently running SilverBullet 2.3.0-f45fcdeb6854d88f54d4647c23194cfa46ebf9f6

 ![image](https://community.silverbullet.md/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0a1f963243ff1bb66026ff425891a540b8c84c4c.png)

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### Author: ![marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/24 "2025-12-16T13:18:12Z")

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![image](https://community.silverbullet.md/uploads/default/original/2X/2/25ecddce031219c9149b25189f35a95cd5123d39.png)

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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/25 "2025-12-16T13:34:51Z")

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> [@marcoswur](#):
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> f45fcdeb6854d88f54d4647c23194cfa46ebf9f6

i’m on latest edge now: `2.3.0-b9bbb32051283c7501efcdf8be88bc58b85cae31`

I tried the `==ini==` folder and file name which looked sus, but then it still works for me. and i still can’t reproduce the issue.

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### Author: ![marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/26 "2025-12-16T14:51:59Z")

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I think I found the problem. In the folder you place the link “explorer:folder/”.  
When I manually put “explorer:folder” it works perfectly.  
Please check…

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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/27 "2025-12-16T16:03:27Z")

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THis helps. I think it’s the way Brave interpreta the `:` in the URL, it interprets it as a custom scheme and refusese to navigare when clicked. I’ll try to remove the `:` From the URL scheme. But I’m now out. Will try to fix when I’m back home.

Until then, a question: do virtual pages for #tags work for you? because they also have the `:` in the URL scheme.

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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/28 "2025-12-16T16:34:15Z")

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Thanks to my delayed train, I had 10 minutes to push the fix.

Update your library and try it out now, f it works now for you too, or if it still missbehaving.

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### Author: ![marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/29 "2025-12-16T21:34:15Z")

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It works perfectly now!  
Thank you so much!  
Very useful feature.

Question… is it difficult to implement list view in Explorer?

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### Author: ![justyns](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/justyns/32/132_2.png) [@justyns](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/justyns)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 8:33am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/30 "2025-12-17T08:33:01Z")

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This is great, thanks for sharing!

One feature request: some sort of filter or search box to find files in the current view would be nice.

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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 9:21am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/31 "2025-12-17T09:21:52Z")

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That’s definitely on the feature list for later releases, together with, list view.  
but i need to figure it out how to do it the easiest way, preferably with the least JS as possible (JS is not my strength 😉 ).

But until then enjoy this new release:

## ChangeLog:

- minor visual tweaks
- some customization options :  
 ![image](https://community.silverbullet.md/uploads/default/original/2X/1/13b7af5a11c502ae788b18e6d7a4605db9939539.png)

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### Author: ![JmiXIII](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/jmixiii/32/1516_2.png) [@JmiXIII](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/JmiXIII)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/32 "2025-12-17T09:37:04Z")

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Short suggestion →   
What about a kind of improved standard SB table ? → will be in line SB roots textual approach …

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### Author: ![mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mjf/32/654_2.png) [@mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/mjf)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/33 "2025-12-17T10:30:36Z")

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~~Tables are pretty problematic thing in SB (but good idea otherwise).~~

Or maybe not as much @Mr.Red ?

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### Author: ![mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mjf/32/654_2.png) [@mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/mjf)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/34 "2025-12-17T10:33:42Z")

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- table - browser view, list view
- list - tree view

@Mr.Red ?

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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/35 "2025-12-17T10:45:35Z")

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> [@JmiXIII](#):
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> Short suggestion →  
> What about a kind of improved standard SB table ? → will be in line SB roots textual approach …

Well that’s exactly the oposite of what I’m trying to do here.  
The idea behind all this is to create an interface for displaying all your files in a familiar (Win/Mac/Linux/ OperatingSystem style).

I well aware that this is not 100% aligned whith the all-text no graphical approach.

What I will consider is in addition to the grid/list view, is to create a modal-filter-box style approach as an “all text” navigator. But a “pure text” - table view navigation I’m currently not considering.

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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 10:49am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/36 "2025-12-17T10:49:14Z")

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here is an early preview of the list view, I played around yesterday:

 ![image](https://community.silverbullet.md/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b5210a0cfd720699ac50c8c3557e9b414cda526d.png)

but this is not yet ready for release…

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### Author: ![mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mjf/32/654_2.png) [@mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/mjf)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/37 "2025-12-17T11:10:39Z")

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Nice. ❤

Ideas…

Do you plan to add some information about the files in the vast empty space in listing (size, tags, whatever, perhaps configurable/customizable)?

Also, there can be small previews of the media files too in extra column.

… End of ideas 🙂

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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/38 "2025-12-17T11:17:18Z")

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yeah i thought about adding details in the list view like size, tags and last modified date maybe, but no previews of pages (let’s not unnecessarily overcomplicate things, alright? 😛 ), andimages already have their “thumbnails” as their icons.

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### Author: ![mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mjf/32/654_2.png) [@mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/mjf)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/39 "2025-12-17T11:26:00Z")

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> [@Mr.Red](#):
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> but no previews of pages (let’s not unnecessarily overcomplicate things, alright? 😛 )

Yes. I really meant the images files, of course. Because I have almost no images in my space I haven’t notice the thumbnails while trying it. 😉

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### Author: ![Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/user_avatar/community.silverbullet.md/mr.red/32/821_2.png) [@Mr.Red](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Mr.Red)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/document-explorer-for-silverbullet/3647/40 "2025-12-17T13:24:13Z")

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just pushed the version with listView to github. update the library and check config options.  
to use listview, set `listView` to `true` in your config page like this:

 ![image](https://community.silverbullet.md/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1b310c71db88bc24fcfd345f2da83fe5a3afc0f2.png)

and listview looks like this:

 ![image](https://community.silverbullet.md/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4d7c8aef5c408aedd25d1767e7e5222e6caaf74e.png)

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