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...
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.
This looks like it could be an open source alternative to obsidian.md. Would anyone be able to speak to that?
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.
Obsidian now has a native query ability via the Bases core plugin. I’ve barely played with it though.
I’m curious how it compares with trilium