Welcome the SilverBullet owner’s manual. Whether you are a SilverBullet aficionado, or brand new to this brave new world — this manual will attempt pave the path to a productive use of this tool. In the end (spoiler alert), so much so that you’ll never want to leave, and use it for everything. And I mean everything. Prepare yourself.
You were told there’s no such thing as a silver bullet; you were told wrong.
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SilverBullet helps you keep and organize your personal and team knowledge as (primarily) Markdown files under your control. It is a tool designed to scale from just a nice and clean markdown note taking experience, to a super-advanced, seemingly custom-built knowledge base with structured data, queries and fitting your custom workflows. Check our use cases page for examples of what’s possible.
The great thing: this is all possible within one tool through the powerful combination of markdown and Lua scripting. Learn it, and the sky is the limit. And don’t worry too much about the “scripting” part — you can get quite far by having SilverBullet generate a lot of the code for you, check Workbench.
As you may have deduced, these docs run inside a read-only instance of SilverBullet. It in itself aims to be a good-practice use of Docs as Code.
Ask questions on the community forum, read the No SilverBullet newsletter and blog, or explore the Server source code.
And beyond all that, and perhaps most importantly — have fun!