silverbulletmd/silverbullet
Silverbullet
Silver Bullet is a local-first, bidirectional Markdown wiki that functions as a Lua-scriptable note-taking platform with an embedded declarative query language. It treats a single folder on your device as the root workspace, monitoring that directory for file changes via a native file-system watcher to keep its in-memory index and user interface synchronised in near real-time. Notes are parsed into a live-preview Markdown AST that re-renders only changed nodes as you type, and the application builds a directed graph of internal hyperlinks from each note’s content to support bidirectional navigation and structured graph queries.
What distinguishes Silver Bullet is its combination of a Lua scripting sandbox and a plugin extensibility model, which together allow users to generate dynamic content, define custom commands, and build widgets that modify how the workspace behaves. A query engine evaluates a custom query language against note metadata and content, returning filtered and sorted results that can be rendered through user-crafted templates—enabling auto‑updating lists or pages driven by tags and structured attributes. This makes the tool extendable far beyond basic note-taking, letting users script their own workflows and data transformations inside the same local environment.
The platform also provides the expected knowledge-management conveniences: bi‑directed link display that surfaces both inbound and outbound connections, modal pickers for fast page/command/tag navigation, full‑text search across the workspace, hierarchical outlines, and checkbox‑based task tracking within Markdown documents. All content is edited in Markdown with live preview, slash commands, and autocomplete, and the embedded structured-data query language allows users to retrieve and aggregate information from across their linked notes.
Features
- Markdown Wiki Platforms - Provides a Markdown-based note-taking platform with live preview, bidirectional links, and an embedded query language for knowledge organization.
- Markdown - Serves as a wiki-like interface for Markdown notes that automatically shows inbound and outbound links.
- Plugins and Scripts - Adds custom features by installing plugins or writing scripts that modify workspace behavior.
- Note Taking Apps - Provides a note-taking application that can be extended with Lua scripts for dynamic content and custom commands.
- Personal Knowledge Management - Organizes and connects personal notes using bi-directional links, tags, and structured queries.
- Custom Query Languages - Queries structured data embedded in documents using a custom query language designed for linked notes.
- Declarative Query Languages - Evaluates a custom query language against note metadata and content to return filtered results via templates.
- Bi-Directional Note Linking - Creates links between pages that automatically display both inbound and outbound connections.
- Markdown Previewers - Parses Markdown into an AST and re-renders only changed nodes for real-time preview as the user types.
- Lua Scripting Engines - Embeds a Lua runtime to run user-authored scripts with controlled access to document content.
- Outline Management - Organizes content using hierarchical outlines and tracks tasks with checkboxes within documents.
- Fuzzy-Finding Pickers - Opens modal pickers to quickly find pages, commands, or tags and performs full-text searches.
- Dynamic Page Generators - Generates auto-updating lists and pages by querying notes by tags and metadata and rendering via templates.
- Graph Link Traversals - Builds a directed graph of internal hyperlinks to enable bidirectional navigation and structured graph queries.
- Dynamic Note Views - Queries notes by tags and attributes, then renders results through customizable templates for auto-updating lists.
- Web Note Platforms - Self-hosted PWA for markdown-based note-taking.
