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Silverbullet

Open-source alternative toEEvernote

SilverBullet is a self-hosted Markdown knowledge database with wiki links, live preview, queries, tasks, and Lua scripting for programmable personal notes.

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HostingSelf-hostable

LicenseMIT

LanguageTypeScript

Last commitAug 11, 2026

Latest releaseJul 28, 2026

Release frequency1.4 per month

Contributors168

Stars5,854

Forks462

Issues324

What it does

SilverBullet is an open-source, browser-based personal knowledge database built around Markdown pages collected in a Space. Users can edit with live preview, navigate through page links and a page picker, create wiki-style bidirectional links, and use outlining and task features.

The application also includes a built-in database and query language, Objects and Queries, plus a Lua scripting environment for dynamically generating content, custom commands, page templates, and widgets. It runs as a standalone server, with the browser client served by that server, and can be built or deployed in Docker with a mounted content directory.

Capabilities

#Team knowledge-base pages from capture to shared source of truth

#Collaborative documents

#Cross-device multimedia note capture and retrieval

#Notebooks, tags, and templates

#Advanced and AI-powered search

#Tasks within notes

#Collaborative knowledge pages from draft to maintained team reference

#Live document collaboration

#Templates and AI-assisted drafting

#Structured databases

Categories

#Document Collaboration #Knowledge Management #AI Assistants #Project Management #Calendars & Scheduling #Note Taking #Task Management #Digital Whiteboards

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PPlaywright

CCodeMirror

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JJavaScript

JJSON Schema

JJSX

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RReact Icons

DDocker

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