Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform

Re:Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source pers... by bityard on Saturday December 03, 2022 @11:32AM (#33844651)

This is pretty nice! It's not always obvious how much engineering it takes to make an app like this that's powerful enough to be useful for daily work without the UX getting in the way.

I think this is the closest I've seen anyone come to solving the problem of having separate "write" and "read" modes for Markdown editing in a web browser without resorting to a split-screen view. It's not _perfect_ (likely due to codemirror limitations) but what's there is pretty well-executed.

I might have to borrow a couple ideas from this for my own effort at a personal knowledge base: https://github.com/cu/silicon

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Re:Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source pers... by jasonjmcghee on Saturday December 03, 2022 @11:52AM (#33844863)

I'm a huge fan of how Obsidian approaches it- previewing each token if you're not actively editing it. This is always how I use it.

Avoiding separate read and write problem entirely.

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Re:Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source pers... by zef_hemel on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:13PM (#33845063)

This is pretty much how it works in SB as well. Very much inspired by Obsidian.

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Re:Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source pers... by pointlessone on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:54AM (#33853259)

My biggest frustration with Obsidian is that it doesn't follow any spec when it comes to raw HTML. They seem to have fixed inline raw HTML at some point but HTML blocks are still broken. They know it and they explicitly will not fix it.

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Re:Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source pers... by unqueued on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:42PM (#33850375)

I never use split-screen view for Markdown. Split-screen makes sense for something more abstract like latex or html. But I do not see the benefit for Markdown. I would much rather have 50% of my screen.

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