SilverBullet v2 released!
community.silverbullet.md
I’m pleased to announce the release of SilverBullet v2, your next open source, self hosted, and programmable notes application. This release has fewer features than ever. Yes, you read that right. SilverBullet had accumulated a wide, but somewhat incoherent set of features over the years. V2 does away with a lot of them. These include online mode, the special query language and template languages, command links, anchors, space script, space config, attribute extractors, object decorators, liv...
  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    10 months

    That’s awesome. I need to migrate off of Google Keep. It’s the last Google service I use.

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10 months

      If all you need is a simple note taking app, I recommend Notesnook. It is free and open source and offers E2EE cloud syncing. That is what I used as a Google keep alternative. Silverbullet is good, but may be too feature-full for something as simple as a Keep replacement.

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        10 months

        If it’s not self hosted, I’m afraid I don’t want to use it. It looks nice, though.

        It does look like they’re working on self hosting, which is awesome. Their GitHub says it’s in alpha.

          • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10 months

            Last time I tried usememos I couldn’t figure out how you can export the notes, which gave me a bad feeling

            reading the github issues it seems the developers are actively against it? stating that the data is in a database and easy to export that way. but my sqlite-fu is quite poor

            except from that, i enjoyed using it

          • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
            10 months

            That looks really nice! I’m gonna try that out. Thank you. :)

      • brb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10 months

        Are there any apps that have similar UI to Keep? I really like the tiled notes as opposed to a simple list

      • hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        10 months

        for my car and motorcycle, I have an older Garmin dedicated GPS that still gets updates and has routed me better than Google maps in the past. it doesn’t require a subscription, though some newer ones do. I think I can update it with open street maps if the worst happens.

        I use Organic Maps on my phone, which uses open street maps. It works pretty well but I often need the actual address for a location as opposed to the business name or search won’t work.

        I’m a Kagi subscriber so I try to use Kagi Maps in the rare instance that I’m looking things up on my computer. It is a bit more limited.

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        10 months

        I don’t know. I use Apple Maps. Probably not any better privacy wise, but I don’t know what is better that has similar features. I’ve tried Magic Earth and CoMaps, and they’re both promising, just not at the level that I’d be willing to switch to.

    • Holli25@slrpnk.netEnglish
      10 months

      It is. The differece is that Silverbullet is self-hosted and not in app like Obsidian. The basics are the same, Obsidian has a way bigger community and more plugins, Silverbullet is easier to extend due to using Lua. Lastly, Silverbullet has queries built in, in Obsidian you have to use Dataview. If you need a markdown-based note storing system Silverbullet is great. Obsidian has more bling and customizability, but is not self-hostable.

      • DragonBard@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        10 months

        Obsidian now has a native query ability via the Bases core plugin. I’ve barely played with it though.

  • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    I like what I am hearing. I was a big fan in the beginning, but it developed to add more and more features and some breaking changes, and I decided to stop using it until the bleeding edge development slows down

    What is the outlook regarding breaking changes in v2? Should I wait a bit?

  • flightyhobler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    That website scrolls funny on my Firefox mobile. Is that a sample of what to expect from the actual software?

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10 months

      Looks fine to me (Firefox 142.0.1 on GrapheneOS 2025081400 on a Pixel 8).

  • flightyhobler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    Bunch of ideas in this thread. Does anyone know of a good solution for reading text files (markdown) in a folder? I tried flat notes (too bare bones), An Otter Wiki (it was fine, but I couldn’t get into it). I’ll try silverbullet.

  • Spaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    Eww lua. Pass. Everything else looks nice.