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Welcome to SilverBullet. Since you’re starting fresh, you may want to kick off by importing the [[Library/Core]] [[Libraries|library]] of templates and pages. You can do so easily with the button below. Just push it — you know you want to!
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{[Library: Import|Import Core Library]("!silverbullet.md/Library/Core/")}
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Did that? Let’s proceed.
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## Getting started
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The best way to get a good feel for what SilverBullet is to immediately start playing with it. Here are some things for you to try:
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* 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]].
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* Type the name of a non-existent page to create it.
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* You _can_ create pages in folders (if you’re into that type of thing) simply by putting slashes (`/`) in the name (even on Windows), e.g. `My Folder/My Page`. Don’t worry about that folder existing, we’ll automatically create it if it doesn’t.
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* 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]]. The {[Stats: Show]} one is a safe one to try.
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* Click on the “T” icon (top right), or hit `Cmd-Shift-t` (Mac) or `Ctrl-Shift-t` (Linux and Windows) to open the [[Template Picker]] and see what templates you have installed (which should be a few after importing the Core library)
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* Select some text and hit `Alt-m` to ==highlight== it, or `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_.
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* Click a link somewhere on this page to navigate there. When you link to a new page it will initially show up in red (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).
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* Start typing `[[` somewhere to insert your own page link (with completion).
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* [ ] Tap this box 👈 to mark this task as done.
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* Start typing `:party` to trigger the emoji picker 🎉
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* Type `/` somewhere in the text to invoke a **slash command**.
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* 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!_
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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.
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Hadn’t we mentioned [[Markdown]] yet? Yeah, that’s the markup language you’ll use to add that dash of markup to your documents. It’s pretty simple to learn if you don’t know it already.
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You will notice this whole page section is wrapped in a strange type of block. This is a SilverBullet specific feature called a [[Live Templates]], which embeds another (sometime external) page into the existing one. If you hover over this section, you’ll notice a small _refresh_ and _edit_ button. Hit that edit button to reveal the underlying source that renders this content.
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SilverBullet has even more tricks up its sleeve. Consider [[Live Queries]] which allow you to query [[Objects]] in your space easily.
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Don’t believe me? Check this out, here’s a list of (max 10) pages in your space ordered by name, it updates (somewhat) dynamically 🤯. Create some new pages and come back here to see that it works:
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```query
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page select name order by name limit 10
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```
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## What next?
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If you are a visual learner, you may [enjoy this introduction video on Youtube](https://youtu.be/VemS-cqAD5k).
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Beyond that, you can find more information about SilverBullet on its official website. You have two ways to access it:
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1. Through its [regular website link](https://silverbullet.md/)
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2. Directly without leaving SilverBullet, through [[Federation]], just click on this: [[SilverBullet]] (note that all of these will be read-only, for obvious reasons)
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To keep up with the latest and greatest going-ons in SilverBullet land, keep an eye on the [[CHANGELOG]]. |