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Welcome to the wondrous world of SilverBullet. A world that once you discover and appreciate, you’ll never want to leave.

One of us!

You can go ahead and delete this placeholder content in a second, but before you do, let me quickly show you around.

We’ll do this through a list of silver bullets.

Ah, so that explains the name!

  • Click on the page picker (book icon) icon at the top right, or hit Cmd-k (Mac) or Ctrl-k (Linux and Windows) to open the page picker.
    • Type the name of a non-existent page to create it.
    • Folders are implicitly created by putting slashes (/) in the name (even on Windows), e.g. My Folder/My Page. Don’t worry about folders existing, SilverBullet will automatically create them if they don’t.
  • Click on the terminal icon (top right), or hit Cmd-/ (Mac) or Ctrl-/ (Linux and Windows) to open the command palette. From here you can run various useful and perhaps less useful commands.
  • Select some text and hit Cmd-b (Mac) or Ctrl-b (Windows/Linux) to make it bold, or Cmd-i (Mac) or Ctrl-i (Windows/Linux) to make it italic.
  • You can create links to pages using the [[other page]] syntax, for instance: [[aspiring page]]. When you link to a non-existent page it will initially show up in orange (to indicate it does not yet exist), but once you click it — you will create the page automatically (only for real when you actually enter some text).
  • Start typing :party to trigger the emoji picker 🎉
  • Type / somewhere in the text to invoke a slash command.
  • If this matches your personality type, there is also an Editor: Toggle Vim Mode command to switch to Vim mode. If you cannot figure out how to exit it (classic vim issue), just run that same command again. Phew!
  • As you may have noticed, while SilverBullet uses markdown underneath, it also “live previews” it to give a bit more of a WYSIWYG feel. You can always move your cursor “into” the underlying code by Alt-clicking it (even links and widgets, which we’ll get to later).


While SilverBullet implements (most) of CommonMark, it also adds a few extensions that are SilverBullet-specific. Most notably, it adds the ${Lua expression} syntax to render Lua expressions inline.

Using SilverBullet’s Lua APIs, you can do all kinds of cool stuff. For instance, query your space for the last 3 modified pages. Exciting!

${query[[from index.tag "page" order by lastModified desc limit 3]]}

There’s a whole world out there to explore, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. First, have some fun and add some content to your fresh space.

Then we’ll talk.

What next?

You can find more information on SilverBullet’s feature set on its official website. Also, be sure to join the SilverBullet community to interact with fellow SilverBullet explorers.