TomApr 15, 2024

I've been trying out #SilverBullet for a while to see if I like it better than other things I've used so far, and I'm really enjoying it (sorry org-roam).

But today I ran into a little issue with block quotes (see first screenshot), and being able to fix that from within SilverBullet itself is pretty darn awesome (see second screenshot)

#sb-main .cm-editor .sb-blockquote-outside { padding-left: 1rem; }

With just that little Space Style it's fixed for all of the block quotes in my space. The CSS itself isn't impressive at all of course, but the fact that I can write some CSS in my space and it affects the look of it is really cool to me.

High Emacs vibes here 

Show threadCanadian ResetApr 15, 2024
@ryuslash this is a CSS framework?
Show threadTom

@CanadianReset no it's a wiki or personal knowledge management system, see @silverbulletmd and https://silverbullet.md

Just in the last version they added the option to add custom css to your space (collection of documents) and I found a use for it :)

SilverBullet

Apr 15, 2024 at 9:30amWeb
Show threadCanadian ResetApr 15, 2024

@ryuslash @silverbulletmd oh interesting.

I use a very similar concept for my static site generator where each md file has a frontmatter header. I'm fact I believe it was you who introduced me to frontmatter years ago!

Show threadTomApr 15, 2024

@CanadianReset oh yeah front matter is very common now. As far as I remember it was Jekyll that popularized it.

One cool thing about the frontmatter in SilverBullet is that it adds attributes to your pages that can be queried (this can also be done to other things)

Show threadCanadian ResetApr 15, 2024
@ryuslash not sure I follow. I'll have to give the docs a through read : 😅
Show threadCanadian ResetApr 15, 2024
@ryuslash ah I think I get it now and I kind of implemented the same thing except mine is more of a command line tool and the queries are built with linq or f#. So it's a lot less flexible in that regard but on the bright side doesn't require a server.