# Hello there!
Welcome to the wondrous world of SilverBullet. A world that once you discover and appreciate, you’ll never want to leave.

_One of us!_

Out of the box SilverBullet is fairly minimal in terms of functionality. To give you a good “first run” experience, we have preconfigured the [[Library/Core]] [[Libraries|library]] for you in your {[Navigate: Open SETTINGS|settings]}. All need to do is import it by pushing this button:

{[Libraries: Update]} 

Just push that button. You know you want to.

Just do it.

You can learn what you actually did later when you feel comfortable diving into [[Libraries]].

# Next steps
Now that you have some basics stuff in place, it’s time to start playing around a little bit.

* Click on the page picker (book icon) icon at the top right, or hit `Cmd-k` (Mac) or `Ctrl-k` (Linux and Windows) to open the [[Page Picker]].
  * Type the name of a non-existent page to create it.
  * Folders are implicitly created by putting slashes (`/`) in the name (even on Windows), e.g. `My Folder/My Page`. Don’t worry about folders existing, we’ll automatically create them if they don’t.
* Click on the terminal icon (top right), or hit `Cmd-/` (Mac) or `Ctrl-/` (Linux and Windows), or tap the screen with 3 fingers at the same time (on mobile) to open the [[Command Palette]]. From here you can run various useful and perhaps less useful [[Commands]]. The {[Stats: Show]} one is a safe one to try.
* Select some text and hit `Cmd-b` (Mac) or `Ctrl-b` (Windows/Linux) to make it **bold**, or `Cmd-i` (Mac) or `Ctrl-i` (Windows/Linux) to make it _italic_.
* Click a link somewhere on this page to navigate there. When you link to a non-existent page it will initially show up in orange (to indicate it does not yet exist), but once you click it — you will create the page automatically (only for real when you actually enter some text).
* Start typing `[[` somewhere to insert your own page link (with completion).
* Start typing `:party` to trigger the emoji picker 🎉
* Type `/` somewhere in the text to invoke a [[Slash Commands|slash command]].
* If this is matching your personality type, you can click this button {[Editor: Toggle Vim Mode]} to toggle Vim mode. If you cannot figure out how to exit it, just click that button again. _Phew!_

Notice that as you move your cursor around on this page and you get close to or “inside” marked up text, you will get to see the underlying [[Markdown]] code. This experience is what we refer to as [[Live Preview]] — generally your text looks clean, but you still can see what’s under the covers and edit it directly, as opposed to [WYSIWYG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG) that some other applications use. To move your cursor somewhere using your mouse without navigating or activating (e.g. a wiki, regular link, or a button) hold `Alt` when you click. Holding `Cmd` or `Ctrl` when clicking a link will open it in a new tab or window.

Hadn’t we mentioned [[Markdown]] yet? Yeah, that’s the markup language you’ll use to add that dash of markup to your documents. On top of baseline markdown, SilverBullet supports a number of [[Markdown/Extensions]] as well.

You will notice this whole page section is wrapped in a strange type of block. This is a SilverBullet specific feature called a [[Transclusions]], which embed another (sometime external) page into the existing one.

SilverBullet has more tricks up its sleeve, we are just getting started. Consider [[Live Queries]] which allow you to query [[Objects]] in your space easily. [[Live Templates]] are another source of 🤯.

As a quick taster, check this out: here’s a list of (max 5) pages in your space ordered by the date of last modification. t updates (somewhat) dynamically. Create some new pages and come back here to see that it works:

```query
page select name order by lastModified limit 5
```

## What next?
If you are a visual learner, you may [enjoy this introduction video on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNbZgOwB-Y).

Beyond that, you can find more information about SilverBullet on its official website. You have two ways to access it:

1. Through its [regular website link](https://silverbullet.md/)
2. Directly without leaving SilverBullet, through [[Federation]], just click on this: [[SilverBullet]] (note that all of these will be read-only, for obvious reasons)

To keep up with the latest and greatest goings-on in SilverBullet land, keep an eye on the [[CHANGELOG]].

Got any more questions? Join our [community](https://community.silverbullet.md/).

Feel a bit more ready in this endeavor? If so, feel to remove [[Transclusions|transclusion]] that renders this on-boarding description. You’re on your own now.

You got this. We believe in you.