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[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This looks like it could be an open source alternative to obsidian.md. Would anyone be able to speak to that?

[–] Holli25@slrpnk.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DragonBard@ttrpg.network 3 points 9 months ago

Obsidian now has a native query ability via the Bases core plugin. I've barely played with it though.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm curious how it compares with trilium