Feedback on my notes structure?

I use wikilinks for in-line relations.

I use tags to categorize notes. I use this categorization to find relevant notes.

Types of tags I use are

#topic/personal
#topic/science
#topic/science/biology
#date/2026-03-01
#status/scratchpad
#type/temporal
#type/evergreen
#type/source

What do you think about that approach to structure? Do you see any problems with that?

I wish I could see my date tags on a calendar, haven't found a solution to that.

I think Silverbullet gives you a lot of freedom to organize how you see fit. And the flexibility to query the results in whatever way works well for you.

Personally, I don't use slashes in by tags. Instead I would tag a note with #topic #personal (but since the topics and types are not overlapping, you could leave this additional step out all together. But #science #biology as separate tags makes more sense to me.

As for the dates, I use Journals for dates and Mr Red provides a nice tool to see journal posts on a calendar.

I also use a folder structure, because I'm not brave enough to lean fully on tags, and because I like the Tree View. But that is probably my old-fashioned side :slight_smile:

But the bottom line is: In Silverbullet, you do whatever works for you.

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i know it's not exactly what you had in mind, but you could try my Floating Journal Calendar maybe it's something you could live with for journal entries. it has some basic customizastion option like: journalPathPattern = 'Journal/#year#/#month#-#monthname#/#year#-#month#-#day#_#weekday#' where you can set your desired path pattern where to save the journal entry.

instead of the tags displayed on a calendar it shows your notes from a certain path in a calendar. if you haven't tried it yet, i'd recommand you to do so.

and also like @Mike said, Silverbullet is much more flexible and gives you the freedom to categorize your notes, i wouldn't rely only on a single category option like tags.

you could combine tags, paths, other attributes in the frontmatter, for categorizing notes. And if you rely on a more complex folder structure, there is always Document Explorer or Silversearch to find your notes easily.

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I like that.I'm running silverbullet in a LAN with no online access. Do you know how I can pre-download your library to use it offline?

if you don't want to use the Library Manager to download the libraries. and you want to download them to work offline. its more like a workaround and it isn't the recommended way, but here are the steps:

Step 1.

Go to: GitHub - Mr-xRed/silverbullet-libraries: Awesome SilverBullet libraries · GitHub

Step 2.

Go to Code -> Download ZIP

Step 3.

Upload/Copy the unzipped files into your space under Library/Mr-xRed/*
(alternatively copy only the libraries(*.md files and their dependencis (if there are)) which you want to be available in your space)

Step 4.

Run the commands: System: Reload and then Client: Reload UI

:white_check_mark: Done.

All the current version of my libraries are available offline in your space, without the need to connect SB to the internet.

Warning
If you do it like this, the libraries wont be updatable, and you need to manually delete and redownload/recopy the libraries to your space, if there is a new update.
So although it's possible i strongly doesn't recommend in doing it like this.