A lot of useful functionality in SilverBullet is implemented through Space Lua embedded in Meta Pages. Some of these you will create yourself for your own specific use, but many are generic and generally useful.

By default SilverBullet is distributed with the Std library containing some generally useful features. In addition, you can download more libraries via the Import mechanism. While this is in no way enforced, it is good practice to store your libraries under Library/.

What’s in a library

Here are some things that a library may provide:

• Various Slash Commands, such as /today, /task, /table.
• Useful Page Templates
• Useful Widgets
• Useful pages that help you perform maintenance on your space, like detecting broken links, such as Maintenance.

Distribution and Importing

We’re still figuring out the best way to distribute libraries. However, one that works already is through SilverBullet’s Import mechanism, which enables e.g. importing a library from a Github Gist.

Similarly Export can be use to export your library to a Github Gist.

Can I change libraries locally?

Libraries you manually imported (see previous section) can be freely changed. Do note that if you import them again, you will override your changes.

The Std library comes “baked in” with SilverBullet and is read only. You cannot change it. However, for most things there are ways to override or disable standard behavior, check Space Lua#Load order for some hints.