I see! I misunderstood, all good 
Yes, I looked at it at some point. I think thereâs various ways to do markdown ârightâ djot may be one of them. Reality is that âthe worldâ has kind of standardized on markdown, warts and all. Thatâs why SB uses it. Not because itâs the best, but because itâs what went more or less mainstream. Itâs a pragmatic choice.
Hey all,
So short introduction, Bas but in PKM socials better known as Tools on Tech due to all the videos I made for Logseq.
Outside of work currently on my way to break free from all the cloud services and as I was configuring my home NAS (UGreen 4800 Plus) I wanted something to jot down a few notes. I think people can guess the rest.
Main reason I was looking is that I have multiple devices (phone, laptop and desktop) and keeping things in sync has always been a pain. SB is the exact cure for that, but once I watched a few videos from @zef it was clear the rabbithole goes a lot deeper. 
Iâm not super active on separate forums, I usually focus on Mastodon as Iâm a strong believer in Open Source and federated solutions. But I do plan on browsing through the topics to get the most out of SB.
Hey @bgrolleman nice to see you here (also as a fellow Dutchman, I assume?). I remember watching some of your Youtube videos on LogSeq a while back, nice! Happy to have you here 
Former developer, reformed project manager, now I write the documentation noone reads.
Have been using SB for a few years, first as local only, and self-hosted for about the last six months.
SB is one of those packages that just works
Even when there are hiccups++ all your data is still there somewhere in the space stash.
So well done Zef and crew, really loving it. And love the fact I can have a capable, simple note making app where my data is controlled entirely by ME.
And after all this time uploading images and attachments to a separate static web host and linking to those images in pages, just discovered pasting images directly into pages works seamlessly. And theyâre right there⊠in the space folder. I could just kiss you right now.
(Im sure this is documented, but in true hypocritical âdo as I say not as I doâ fashion I did not read or glossed over that part.)
++ my only complaint so far and its really really minor is I have a longstanding habit of PREFIXING pages with __ - #152 may have improved underscores IN the filenames, but its still an issue if theyâre at the beginning of the filename. But, as I said, I go âoh rightâ and ssh into my space backend and rename it.
From reading #152 and the others that reference it, changing that isnât worth any effort. But maybe a checkbox in the settings like âWarn on stupid characters in page names?â
Actually I was contemplating this week to remove the _ hides for files restriction, I donât think itâs necessary anymore.
Really cool to hear from long time users btw, I really have 0 idea how many who are out there simply quietly using SB daily and not telling me. Probably a lot.
Hi, I am Alec, a physics student in China.
After years of searching for a âknowledge ollectorâ that I liked (WiKitten, Obsidian, Dendron, etc. failed) I thought the SilverBullet might be it.
One thing thatâs proving irritating is that while it has a a concept âspacesâ it doesnât seem to be very good at swapping between spaces.
Disclaimer: I am testing this only on a single machine (a Windows box) something that is only available locally.
From what Iâve seen is that when I am working on the Project A space and I want to work on the Project B space I need to kill the current SilverBullet instance and restart it and point it to the new project folder.
There seems to be no way to have two instances available (on different ports) at the same time.
I could just point SilverBullet at my main âdocs-archiveâ folder but thatâs 18,700 or so markdown files and hundreds of thousands of other objects. That seems to me enough to bog down the system.
Instead I seem be encouraged to subdivide things and have one space for âdocs-archive/musicâ (500 markdown files) one for âdocs-archive/cabinet-of-curiositiesâ (112 markdown files), etc. But, again, swapping between is onerous.
Is there some way to easily swap spaces? Easily work on two spaces at once? If not, is there a will to add such convenience?
What do you mean? Just run it twice with different ports and space paths.
Iâm using 4 instances of SB on windows
⊠on ports 3000, 3001, 3002, 3003.
Congratulations youâve been initiated as a keeper of the tribal knowlege. Your cheap plastic medal is in the post.
I mean many things.
Upon wading back through the documentation I found the section linked to as: âThere are a bunch of [[Install/Configuration]] options you can pass, usually as environment variables.â
I did not feel that I needed to configure anything so I never looked. Setting an environment variable for a new port and rerunning seems tiresome. Making a batch file will need to be done to make that easier.
You can also do this, to have it easier, you can also run multiple instances, just make sure you setup a different port for each in the arguments.
[EDIT] But this is Off-Topic hereâŠlet`s move the conversation in a separate thread?
re: Quicker
Thanks for the positive input. Evaluating SilverBullet is currently on a Windows machine only for the perceived ease of execution. My primary setups at home are macOS-based.
re: Windows service:
I want to create and edit documents. I donât want to manage the system. I donât want to install Docker, use a Docker image, self-host a server, setup a server on some VM web service, etc. Thatâs just background noise.
I want things that work out of the box. If I run a second instance of the program and it detects that port 3000 is in use it should gracefully use port 3001 instead. If the validation routine detects that I have a space in a phone number where the app doesnât want one then the validation routine should remove that space.
Even having the editing being done in a browser is an irritant. Itâs too easy to accidentally close a tab, go back to somewhere else, and do a myriad of things to interrupt âthe flowâ.
But, again, thanks for the positive input.
re: Off-topic should create a new thread:
Not needed, this can stop right here.
Hello,
My name is Pierre and, for once I discovered Silverbullet last month in the usually stupid notifications of my smartphone⊠I am an emacs enthusist, but my work PC is windows based and using org-mode on it was a pain. Silverbullet seems to be able to replace my org usage for my personnal notes and todos.
I am struggling a bit on CONFIG options which sometimes break the localhost server, and I wonder what are the easiest debug tips (on this point, emacs lisp is much more helping for the moment).
I am a software developper that moved to system integration years ago (I stared programming in 1984 !)
Hi! I found out about Silverbullet propably on reddit or selfhosting. and used it for a year. Now I got back here after few months pauseâwaited for v2 changes to kinda settle down and for documentation to, well, exist at all. I am glad I can use Silverbullet again without too much frustrationâthanks to hard work of Zef and this awesome community.
Hi,
Mike here, based in the Netherlands - I recently found Silverbullet via the selfhosted subreddit. Iâve been trying several note taking apps over the last year (logseq, siyuan, jotty, to name a few), but none of them tick all the boxes for me.
So far, SilverBullet works very well for me. While SilverBullet works great just âout-of-the-boxâ, it does feel like the target audience are more technically inclined people with very specific ideas on how a note-taking should work for them. And Silverbullet offers a lot of flexibility to make it work according to your wishes.
Iâm still learning (and the learning curve is pretty steep), so I might be ask a few questions in the community in the coming days.
Hi, Mike here from the US (Wisconsin), married with two girls. IT Sec Engineer by day and anything technical tinkerer on the side.
I've been looking for a way to self-host all of my notes and ethereal detritus for years but would always fail back to OneNote, Evernote, etc just because they worked well enough.
Thankful to have found SB a couple of months ago! Now I'm running my Docker/Caddy/SB stack on an old Raspberry Pi 400 running Ubuntu server stuffed in a closet that I ssh into if needed. I have it "secured" behind a Cloudflare tunnel with MFA. Also a little/lot overkill with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards, really just to learn how they work. I have a weekly backup job to sync the whole thing to the microsd with the live system running off USB - can do better with this part.
My next step is how to self-host bookmarks in an easy and searchable way. Trying SB for this instead of something like Linkwarden to keep everything under one roof. Anyways I've rambled enough. Have a great day! I love the community here and this platform!
Hi, Cris from Chile!
Firstable, I want to thank you to all SBâs developers and contributors. I appreciate your shared work, time and ideas.
I found SB later last year when searching for a nice tool as replacement of Obsidian and Google Keep. I make the switch almost a month ago.
What I like:
What I don't:
Finally, I hope to help sharing some of my short-lived experience with SB on the related posts.
Here some of my whishlist (TODOs):
Hey all, discovered SilverBullet last week and have been mesmerised by the ideology and simplicity.
I have used probably 10 different note taking tools over the years, none have managed to survive longer than a year or so, they always end up with some flaw, something that irks me and I canât fix⊠My most recent voyage was into Obsidian, but I disagreed with some of their fundamental principles.
A week into SB and I have an almost âperfectâ system that just works for me and will be out of the way.
I have been a lurker on various forums for my whole life, never found much need or want to post anywhere, but I will be posting some of the fixes I have done here, just need to test and make sure they are good enough for sharing.
Something about me: I work as a Systems Engineering Lead at a large company and have been dabbling in tech since a very young age, I love computers and everything related to them.
Thank you for building a wonderful tool Zef and keep up the good work.
