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A look at the SilverBullet note-taking application
SilverBullet is a MIT-licensed note-taking application, designed to run as a self-hosted web server. Started in 2022, the project is approaching its 2.0 release, making this a good time to explore the features it offers. SilverBullet stores notes as plain Markdown files, and provides a Lua scripting API to customize the application's appearance and behavior.
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While it will be hard for any note-taking program to tempt me away from Emacs's org-mode, I do think SilverBullet is a compelling alternative. Its design as an offline-first web app backed by plain files promises to offer the best of both worlds. Plain files can be imported, exported, and backed up trivially; but making the primary interface web-based allows for easy styling and synchronization across devices. The integration of Lua scripts directly into the user's documents is a flexible platform on which to customize a potentially personal platform.
While the 2.0.0 release is not quite ready, the pre-release that I tested seemed stable. People who are happy with their current note-taking solution are unlikely to want to switch, but those looking to try a simple, flexible alternative may well want to give SilverBullet a look.