Thank You!

General
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Hey all!

A huge thanks to @zef for creating SilverBullet. Your app changed how I take notes, how I recollect things, and how I plan everything!

I have been a long time user of Obsidian and Logseq. I loved Obsidian because it was easily customisable. Logseq's bidirectional links were useful, but not a fan of its outline model.

I accidentally discovered SilverBullet from reddit. After testing countless apps (Affine, Standard Notes, Cryptee, Anytype, etc) I found out SilverBullet is the one!

A huge shoutout to @Mr.Red for his plugins. Your plugins made my onboarding experience wholesome. Especially, Floating Calendar. Thank you!

A big thanks to @ahzay for Page Encryption Plug: Silverbullet Crypt. It is part of my note system now.

Thanks to @jagwarrx for the action button.

For those who prefer a command button that can take you to today's journal (or whichever date), here is one

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-- command: Go to Today
command.define {
  name = "goto-today",
  description = "Go to Today",
  run = function()
    local date = os.date("*t")
    local monthNames = {
      "January","February","March","April","May","June",
      "July","August","September","October","November","December"
    }
    local year = tostring(date.year)
    local month = string.format("%02d", date.month)
    local day = string.format("%02d", date.day)
    local monthname = monthNames[date.month]

    local path =
      "Journal/" .. year .. "/" .. month .. "-" .. monthname .. "/" ..
      year .. "-" .. month .. "-" .. day

    editor.navigate(path)
  end
}

Then you can embed this anywhere,

${widgets.commandButton("Today's entry", "goto-today")}

HOWEVER, I do feel that SilverBullet is NOT getting the recognition it deserves. It needs a lot of tutorials, and @zef alone can not do it. I will try creating proper guides and example configurations so that newcomers feel right at home.

A little about me: I am a selfhosting guy. Been trying to help the community for some time. I have a website where I publish easy-to-adopt compose files and architecture. You can expect a dedicated SilverBullet section soon enough.

Thank you all.

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You're very welcome! I am glad that my plugins/libraries helped you with the onboarding, and giving you a better day to day ux.

Welcome to Silverbullet :hugs:

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Agreed, this is a great app that deserves more attention. Thank you for tackling some of this!

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Silverbullet blows my mind. The fact that you can take it and make it literally exactly what you want it to be.

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The flexibility behind Silverbullet is its greatest strength.

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I actually came here today to write a post thanking both @zef and @Mr.Red too!

Like you, I came from Obsidian and Logseq, tried everything else available, but I also used Capacities for a while. I was an Obsidian user for a couple of years, Logseq for a couple years after that, then Capacities for about a year. Using Capacities, I learned how to think of my notes in more of an object-oriented manner. But having everything in the cloud was aggravating, as were several bugs that I routinely experienced. I migrated that approach back into Obsidian, which worked well until I wanted to actually query my data. Dataview for Obsidian just made many of my notes frustratingly slow to work in.

So, I decided to dedicate some time to really working with SilverBullet until I understood it well. It does everything I need it to do, it performs well, and it's just customizable enough to make me happy. Document Explorer and the TOC in Sidepanel plugs are really the only major additions I've made. SilverBullet just captures what I need to without getting in the way. To me, it's the unicorn app. I wish it handled tables better, but I've just learned to work around that since I don't have the technical aptitude to contribute to the project in any way.

Thanks for this great app!