Introductions

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

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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! :slight_smile:

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! :slight_smile:

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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

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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.

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Welcome from one ex-Logseq user to another to Silverbullet. I hope that you’ll grow to love it as I have. Enjoy!! :slightly_smiling_face:

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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!)

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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.

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Good Luck and Enjoy!! :grinning_face:

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 :wink:) 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 :hear_no_evil_monkey:.

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

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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

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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

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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!

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