Yeah, attachments are definitely a second class citizen for now. I put very little effort into making that solid thus far. Largely also because I basically only use SB for text notes myself.
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Iām looking to replace my logseq with SB. I just copied all my 1500 logseq markdown + asset files into my space (took a long time to index!) and things are starting to work. Iāll need to add widgets and queries to make it more logseq-like.
Features I find important:
- Hacker friendliness (JS extensions, simple query language)
- Open Source
- Available everywhere, self-hosted, multi-device
- No data lock-in (Markdown)
- Full Markdown support (I really miss this in logseq, which only supports lists)
Whatās missing:
- Search! Needs to be fast and at least show the matching block or snippet of text, with links. (Question: could I write an extension to use ripgrep and parse the results? That might be good enough. It can output json.)
- Improve support for Images and attachments (logseq does this well)
- Logseq is optimized for journal-based workflows; I donāt know if I can get there with SB. Working on it. If not, this would be a showstopper. (To do: show N recent journal pages below current, ensure theyāre easily accessible)
- Sidebars? I know I can open another page in another window (no tabs in PWA), but opening a page in a sidebar can be very helpful. āRecent pagesā list in sidebar is helpful.
- Emacs keybindings
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For me your deprioritize list is reasonable. I use SB as my personal knowledge base so Iām not sharing it with anyone else. I love that itās self hosted and, as a programmer, I fully understand the big hole you can dig for yourself trying to satisfy everyoneās UIs tastes! I also suck at UIs but a big attraction of SB for me is the clean, no fuss interface.
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I found and started using SilverBullet six days ago, after previously using Logseq - before Logseq, I was using Joplin.
What I immediately liked about SilverBullet
- Actively maintained, self-hosted, FOSS Markdown notes (with the option for a local web server)
- Web-based with a PWA
- Space Script + live queries and templates
- The customizable start page
- Not focused on collaboration/teams (I do think Federation seems interesting)
What Iām still exploring
- Custom commands/shortcuts (i.e., what would be useful to me)
What I needed a bit of time to understand
- Expression Language vs. Query Language vs. Template Language
What I would like to see improve
- Search (as described in earlier posts)
- Persisting the state of outlines (folded or unfolded)
- Nice to have: End-to-end encryption
- Lower priority: Other themes or increased ease of modifying specific components like bullet points (Iām fairly happy with what I have now via Space Style though)
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I miss it too! So when I open up Search with Ctrl + Shift + F and press a few keys, Iād like to actually see the results with context (like grep -context 4 does) before choosing any of the results.