Hi,
I’m Jorge, I’m Portuguese and I’m an electronics technician.
I belong to the group born in the 60s.
I use Obsidian but a friend told me about SB and I’ve been testing it for 4 days, but I’m having some difficulties adapting to SB which I believe, with access to the forum, will be dispelled.
To Zef, thank you very much for your excellent program.
Jorge
Hi, I’m Jose Rodriguez (He / Him).
Currently living in Barcelona and working as a Lead DevOps Engineer.
I’ve also been struggling with personal note-taking and blogging (been randomly using Obsidian).
I find out about SilverBullet by a HackerNews post in Telegram and I’m very excited about it! 
I’d like to use it also as a blogging platform, but don´t know the recommended setup for this (currently using a Dockerized version with Coolify): I’m trying to figure out how to make it read-only for everyone else except me (e.g. 2 instances sharing the same Docker volume? etc)
Many thanks for this tool. I find it awesome!
Hi there,
I’m a Linux enthusiast and amateur sysadmin. Silverbullet was a recommendation from the local free software community and I have been using it as a personal information manager for a couple months now.
I’m currently trying to figure out how to do more with LUA (which is a language I wanted to learn all the same) so I will stick around here for a while reading and hopefully taking part in the conversation.
Thaks to @zef for this great tool.
Cheers,
Iván
Howdy everyone. I’m a lawyer, photographer, and former (?) software developer in the United States. I cannot remember where I first heard about Silverbullet, but I think I first spun up an instance about two years ago in a desperate search for browser-based PKM tool to escape the gradual decline of Logseq. I was born in the States, grew up between the US and New Zealand, and somehow ended up living in Florida to my great surprise. I’m married, have one wonderful kiddo, two dogs, and at least two cats, depending on which neighborhood cat has taken up residence on our porch.
I use SB to keep track of masses of projects for one of the largest health care companies in America (but no confidential info!). I love the flexibility and extensibility of the tool. I miss some of the baked in daily journal features from logseq (like navigation within the journal), but, on balance, I’m stretching to find something. I’m emphatically NOT asking for this, but it’s the first tool in this family that’s made me wish for multiuser features so I could share with a team–but, again, not asking for that.
Welcome from one ex-Logseq user to another to Silverbullet. I hope that you’ll grow to love it as I have. Enjoy!! 
Very happy with SB most of the time. I’m running into some frustrating duplication issues and the joy of learning a new language and app model on the fly, but the absolute joy of this platform is the degree to which I can fiddle with it and, more importantly, understand why something is or isn’t working. (Yes, that’s also a downside in the sense that I spend a lot of time fiddling, but that’s all on me!)
I’m still using V1 on purpose. I have found ways to make it work as is. While learning Lua and all of the gotchas of Lua-script, I have other things that are more crucial at the moment. Besides, V1 meets my needs at the moment.
I was going to stick with V1, but then I was possessed by this weird enthusiasm to just go for it with V2. I think it’s that the fundamentals are so well thought out with SB that jumping right into V2 felt more exciting than risky.
Good Luck and Enjoy!! 
Hi all
I am Pascal, living with my family in Switzerland and I am working as head of high performance computing at one of our universities here. I am using note taking apps since a long time and quite intensively for work and also private life. There where several of these apps & tools over all the years and migrating in most cases is a pain to some extend.
I just stumbled over SilverBullet three days ago and I am deeply impressed. In the begining, I was struggling (well, and still do 
) with grasping the concepts and finding the bits and bytes in the documentation. I am also rather new to Lua which makes it not easier. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist to playing arround with SilverBullet and now I am in the middle of migration to it: It’s an impressive, super leight-weight, open approach to note taking an knowledge management und the community here appears super enthusiastic, engaged and friendly.
Looks like I am here to stay 
.
Thanks a lot to @zef and all other conributors for starting and realizing such a great project. Thanks also to all the people here in the community who shared their experiences and solutions, this helped a lot so far.
Kind regards,
Pascal
Hi,
I am Peter, an electrical engineer and professor at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology. I share glimpes of my life-long quest to better organize myself with my masters students (innovation managment and soft skill classes).
We discussed second brain and Luhmann’s Zettelkasten (German). I shared my use of Obsidian with the class which I had been using for two years. That spawned my looking into the current state of alternative tools. I had listed Logseq as the go-to alternative, but then stumbled across the ongoing discussion about it’s direction.
This is when I discovered SilverBullet. I love the clean and powerful approach. Being able to easily bring in my Obsidian markdown files proves the conceptual strength of keeping the data in a robust format which survives a tool change. (One reason I ended up not warming up to Trilium which I had also investigated at one point in time).
I am happy to be on board, moved my data from Obsidian to Silverbullet and am excited to explore it’s merits and potential in may day-to-day life!
Cheers
Peter
Hi Peter
Cool, a Zettelkasten man, great :-). I also have a Zettelkasten in Obsidian that now needs to be migrated.
All the best and have fun here,
Pascal
I moved from Logseq to Silverbullet because of their decision to move to a data-base approach. I am very satisfied with Silverbullet and I use it daily. Welcome to the Silverbullet community. Enjoy!
I also recently moved from Logseq to SilverBullet, mainly because it handles Markdown format better and gives me more control over how I organize my notes.
I’m using it both for personal and work purposes, and so far I’m really enjoying the flexibility it offers.
Cédric
I am aging “IT guy” that wants to be more productive and has filled up my last paper notebook. I was searching for an alternative to Obsidian and LogSeq that was easy to test drive and ended up here late last week.
SilverBullet seemed light on features that I had already been using (journals for example) but looked flexible enough to customise. So far I am really happy with the progress I have made as I get used to how to search this community and how to wrangle SilverBullet (the secret so far seems to be use v2 and space-lua for everything).
I particularly love that I can spin up a docker container and use SilverBullet from my desktop and my phone and get pretty much the same experience (more for reference on the phone). The whole offline experience so far has been amazing. I am not yet ready to migrate from away from (slow non DB) LogSeq but I don’t think it’ll be long.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this little gem.
Hi everyone,
I started using SB a couple of months ago, after an incredibly exhaustive search for note taking tools to help me remember what’s going on over long term. I’m a physicist and I run a planetarium program at a selective university in the US. It always feels like I have 50 projects happening at the same time, and I lose track of what’s going on easily. I was diagnosed with adhd a couple of years ago in my late 40s so those 50 projects need external reminders to keep moving over the long term. Note taking apps are my hope for that.
I encountered silverbullet in may 2025, and knew it was the right app immediately. Unfortunately, although I could figure out how to self host it given time, I really didn’t want to be responsible for fixing it when it breaks. Because it would. And it would at the worst possible time.
So when pikapods made it possible to self host easily, I was in!
What do I love about it?
The ability to programmatically put together small pieces of text into larger pages with a simple language. The live query as a first class part of pages is exactly what I was looking for. Let’s compare to obsidian for a minute: although it is customizable with dataview, plugins, and JavaScript, it is a huge piece of software, and just learning enough to get started is a nightmare. Sure JavaScript isn’t that hard to learn, but all of the layers of customized objects on top of it is just a lot of reading. Their solution seems to be a TON of plugins. Which creates the new problem of searching the plugin space, and imagining all of the possible ways each plugin might work to create a version of your wanted workflow. It’s exhausting.
What do I hate about it? Just like everybody else (most egregiously Todoist), the moment a query starts, you throw away hierarchy. Or partly, silb is better than most. For objects with explicit parents, children know about parents but parents don’t know about children. (Deadbeat parents?). Paragraphs know about their page, but why isn’t that called a parent? I have to figure out what the object’s main tag is to figure out what attribute I need to call to get its parent. Hierarchy on a page IS DATA. And it’s the easiest data to enter. However, unlike everyone else, silverbullet gives me an easy simple coding language to build the tools to read the hierarchy and do what I want. I’ll make a post in the ideas thread later to explain what I mean. Also, it’s always possible I’m missing something! Let me know if there’s something built in.
The other weakness for me is I’d like more documentation the basic structure of css tags and classes for SB. In any app like this there’s a gap between trying to learn css via tutorials, and knowing how everything is set up in this app so that you know what to change to create your style.
Anyway thanks for reading! Excited to keep building.
Hello everyone.
Serge here… former computer scientist, former dev-team leader in a big company (orange.fr) and since 2012 teaching daoism (meditation, chinese medecine, qi gong,…) with a no nonsense approach.
I’ve been switching from one system of writing organised text to another since the 90’s starting with self-hosted wikis, desktops app, … and moving recently to obsidian, logseq,… to come back to plugins in vscode such as foam, dendron,… None of this where doing what i wanted, and all seems to force you to work in a specific way.
A while back i stumbled upon luaRT (a port of lua to create nice windows applications) and on djot and i decided to start my own way of doing things. Fortunatly i had to much to work on with writing my podcast, my courses, so i delayed the start of this project. Two days ago, as i regularly do, i went and check a french website (korben.info) that have been monitoring cool tools and cool projects since ages.
Then i discovered silverBullet !
I watched Zef’s new series of videos, and i was convinced from the first one. Clean as in no nonsense, straight to the point, no-digression, clear, calm, well spoken… good signs for a daoist like me ! I was even more convinced when in a video Zef said that he wanted simplification by unification 
Natural stuff are simple, complexity is going away from what is natural. That also greatly speaks to me.
So i have downloaded the exe files, ran two instances on two differents directories, and start reading the discourse and watch more videos.
There is a lot to discover and lot that is implied in what i read online, so the step need some effort. Cool i don’t mind 
What i plan to do with silverbullet ? I have multiple uses 
keeping journals on events (filling up the house propane tank, cost blah, bought this amound of firewoods cost blah, revision of the car, …) I keep both data concerning my couple but also for my mother (97 years old!) So i need separation, but good search too. So far i’ve been keeping that in separate markdown files and accessing them through vscode file search.
organising the developpement on my teaching website. I need both to keep tracks of future improvements but also compose the newsletter editos, write the podcast episodes, … That a lot of disparate work and so far i’m using extensively vscode and excalidraw (for the docs!) for that purpose.
writing… I’ve three books in the funnel and i can’t seems to find the right time of way to move forward. When i’m on my phone and i have an idea, i don’t have access to the files (no i don’t want to use googledoc), when i’m at home i need to consolidate the notes i had while on the move to the main files… I need a smoother way of doing that.
playing rpg. I’ve been a player since the 80’s wargaming then roleplaying and i’ve pass on the virus to my two kids (now 17 and 23 years old). They play since they were respectively 6 and 12 years old ! They recently asked me for a big sci-fi campaign. That means lots of NPC, plots, lots of planets, lots of organisations, … So again i started in vscode and yukkkk !!!
Daoism knowledge database…
So that all that i hope silverbullet will help me with Yes i know that sounds a lot, and i’m taking it slow. Progressively, one step at a time.
First step : move the book writing and my home journals in silverbullet, while watching videos and getting more familiar with the environnement.
I’m sure i’ll learn a lot here with you all, and again big thanks to Zef for the work. Sponsoring incoming !
Hey @Serge good to have you! Independently (based on some analytics) I found your review yesterday: Silverbullet - Le wiki markdown dans lequel vous pouvez tout coder en LUA | Open source | Le site de Korben (in French but I could translate), very nice — and also drives a bit of traffic, so thanks for that too!
Quick note on your review, you mention (in my translation) that uploading images is not supported — while I wouldn’t claim SB does a great job with types of attachments, I should note you can just drag & drop, copy & paste or use Upload: File to upload and insert images, FYI
@Serge Djot is indeed very sane. It support most of the things we need and the {} in addition which is extremely useful. With some minor additions to the syntax Djot seems like the most sensible Markdown-like variant I’ve ever seen. It removes some classical disambiguities too. Thanks for reminding me of it. @zef if you never seen it, just go and read the specs. Djot’s really nicely balanced.
It was not my review i just read that review just like you did ! I have been following korben’s site for years and i trust his guts
For the uploads, i’ve seen that yes ! That’s a plus, even if i don’t really care as i’m used to put my images in a folder and link them by hand in markdown.
Great job anyway. i’m more than happy to have found silverbullet and i’ll spray the word when i’ve done more than just two pages and a small query