Silverbullet is an extremely hackable FOSS browser-based markdown editor.

Why use it?

• Super hackable
• Accessible on any device on my tailnet with a browser
• FOSS, self-hosted
• Native vim support <3

Custom additions

• Geonotes support
• Custom image grids
• metadata-prettify: display ugly ass yaml frontmatter into nicely rendered tables

My system

Taken from Odysseas on Youtube. This has been my stsem since late 2024 and it’s been working very well.

• Every note has a tags and a status attribute
• Status: stub, start, or solid, depending on the maturity of the content
• Tags are just pages. SB’s inbuilt linked mentions feature collects all pages with that tag. Since the tag itself is a page, I can write stuff on it, annotate the things in the linked mentions or organize them, etc. which is not possible using normal hashtag-tags.

Sharing

I use a Reverse proxy (Cloudflare Zero Trust) with email-based access to securely share my site with family and friends.

For convenient access from my work laptop, I set up a subdomain silverbullet.garado.dev to redirect to my home server’s IP.

Deployment

Some of the notes on this site are public as part of the wiki section on my personal website.

To publicize the notes, I have an annoyingly complicated Python script to pull specific notes from their home on my server and convert the Silverbullet markdown into Hugo-compatible markdown. The script lives in the repo for my personal site, and I run it manually.