Welcome to the wonderful world of SilverBullet. The goal of this manual is to give you a broad sense of how to use this tool and what it’s capable of. However, its full capabilities are yet to be discovered. You too may find new and creative ways to use the various SilverBullet features in ways nobody previously thought of.

However, that is all unlikely to happen unless you understand what SilverBullet can actually do. So let’s give you a bit of a sense.

Keeping up-to-date

• CHANGELOG: what’s new in SilverBullet? This page will give you the latest details. It’s worth monitoring this page.

Installation and deployment

The biggest hurdle to get over with SilverBullet is that you need to get this thing running. And as of yet, the only way to do that is to install and deploy it yourself. 🤷

• Install: Installation instructions for various setups

For more additional guides, check out our community guides.

User interface

SilverBullet’s UI is minimalist by design. Let’s look at the few UI elements and how to use them.

• The Top Bar contains:
  • Page Namer
  • Client Modes (the 🔄 button)
  • Index Page (the 🏠 button)
  • Page Picker
  • Command Palette
• The main Editor component contains your page’s text

Core Concepts

These are the core concepts used in SilverBullet:

• Spaces
• Pages (and Meta Pages)
  • Frontmatter
  • Page Name Rules
• Folders
• Documents
• Templates

Editing and Formatting

• Content is written using Markdown and rendered using Live Preview
  • Markdown Basics
  • Markdown Extensions
    • Links
    • Admonitions
    • Tasks
    • Syntax Highlighting
    • Code Widgets
• Slash Commands
• Outlines

Navigation

The main ways to roam your space, beside following page links, are:

• Page Picker
• Meta Picker
• Full Text Search

Advanced topics

• Objects
  • Frontmatter
  • Attributes
• Live Queries
• Templates
• Libraries
• Federation
• Space Script & Space Style

Customization

• SETTINGS and Space Config
• Shortcuts
• Page Decorations
• Space Style

Extending SilverBullet

A lot of SilverBullet’s functionality is built as Plugs using the robust PlugOS extension mechanism. If you are adventurous you can try to build such plugs yourself. A lighter, but also powerful way to extend SilverBullet is through Space Script.

Contributing

SilverBullet is free and open-source software. You can contribute to it via Github. For some details on how to do this, have a look at Development.