Taking Notes with Joplin

I'm really surprised I don't see more tech-savvy people talking about SilverBullet (https://silverbullet.md). It's not perfect, but very "hackable" and being actively developed. It's the best self-hostable note taking app I've found so far.

As i understand it, it has no encryption build in. Maybe thats the reason.

I did not know it and so I had a look. While it looks promising, it does not have a install section on how to set it up as a systemd service, just docker...

That makes it a hard pass for me.

I was using this for a while and really loving it, however the dev just recently decided to undertake a rewrite into Lua which breaks all existing scripts, and changed how the online/offline paradigm works, which made me feel a bit skittish about whether it is going to be a stable long-term solution. I am really rooting for Zef here though and hope it settles into a good place soon!

I like SilverBullet a lot; it's similar in philosophy to Obsidian. The biggest issue I had using it as a daily driver is that it's a website; there's no dedicated app. I like to have Obsidian hotkeyed as a toggle on cmd-' for instant access. As a Firefox user on macOS, I couldn't figure out a way to do that with SilverBullet, even with HammerSpoon scripting.

If SilverBullet were into acquiring more users (they may not be), they could use some major help with their site design.

When I visit the SilverBullet link, I get a wall of text. And at the very top is a warning about versions and a link to migrating your data between versions, which leads to another extensive wall of text with various code and configuration examples.

Many people, even busy tech savvy people, are going to shy away from this.

To be honest, it looks kind of interesting to my inner nerd, but I think I'll stick with my "directory of plaintext Markdown files" that I've moved between apps as they've come and gone.

I just found out about SilverBullet and it looks promising, but I'm also worried about the lack of a dedicated app for the same reason as you. The developer mentions installing it as a WPA in the demo video, have you tried that? Seems like it could solve the shortcut problem.