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[–] Holli25@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is. The differece is that Silverbullet is self-hosted and not in app like Obsidian. The basics are the same, Obsidian has a way bigger community and more plugins, Silverbullet is easier to extend due to using Lua. Lastly, Silverbullet has queries built in, in Obsidian you have to use Dataview. If you need a markdown-based note storing system Silverbullet is great. Obsidian has more bling and customizability, but is not self-hostable.

[–] DragonBard@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 week ago

Obsidian now has a native query ability via the Bases core plugin. I've barely played with it though.